But executives have difficult considerations of their own. In the information industry, for instance, competition is fierce, copying is easy and the companies all have a similar level of technology, so firms that cooperate with academic institutions have to proceed very carefully "to avoid leaking something by mistake," Lin says.
像資訊業界彼此競爭激烈，技術水準又十分接近，模仿起來很容易，因此在與學界合作時，便要戰戰兢兢，「以免一不小心自己開發的東西就『流』出去了」，林華齡說。