IIR director Ho Szu-yin says, "If the government listens to you, you are a think tank; if the government doesn't listen to you, you are a research organization." If the various think tanks can maintain a long-term commitment to research, this can only be a positive contribution to the country.
政大國關中心主任何思因就說，智庫是「政府聽你的，就叫智庫；政府不聽你的，就是研究機構」，如果各家智庫都能維持長遠的研究耐力，對國家不啻是一項正面的貢獻。