Finding foreign partners for joint ventures is not difficult for medium to large-sized companies with substantial financial and technological resources, but "most Taiwanese medium or small businesses have few opportunities to find foreign partners except by becoming satellite companies of Japanese firms," says Kenneth Lai.
以尋求外商合資來說，資本及技術密集的中大企業不難做到，但「一般台灣中小企業要找外商合資，除了做日商的協力廠商外，門路可說是相當少」，黎堅指出。