Though the ideal remains intact, Ko ventures no prediction as to how long it will take for Taiwan's think tanks to develop into comprehensive research institutions. Besides increasingly intense competition for funding, another change produced by the large number of think tanks, one with both positive and negative aspects, is in their function as "talent pools."
但理想歸理想，台灣智庫要多少時間才能轉型成綜合型智庫，柯承恩也不敢預期。旋轉門啟動除了經費競逐轉為激烈，另一個因智庫林立所帶來的生態變化，則正、負面兼具地影響著智庫的「人才庫」。