The outlook isn't promising. Taiwan's current high-tech fields, such as silicon wafer fabrication and optoelectronics, all require large investments of capital in clean-room equipment and so forth. "There's no way for the younger generation of entrepreneurs to compete in these capital-intensive fields," notes Wen Chao-tung, director of the Graduate Institute of Technology and Innovation Management at National Chengchi University.
台灣目前的高科技代工業如晶圓製造、光電產業等，包括無塵室等設備都需要大量資金投入，「拚的是資本密集，不可能成為年輕世代的創業標的，」政大科技管理研究所所長溫肇東指出。