Yang Jih-chang, executive vice president of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), explains that it is estimated that by 2008 nanotech will account for more than NT $ 300 billion of Taiwan's economy, giving it a higher percentage of GNP in Taiwan than in Japan.
展望國內奈米科技發展，統合國內奈米產業發展的工研院副院長楊日昌表示，預計到二○○八年時，國內奈米相關產值至少可以達到三千億台幣以上，屆時台灣奈米產業佔 GNP 的比重將超過日本。