People joke that Taiwan has two Industrial Technology Research Institutes, an "establishment" industrial research institute, located in Hsinchu and composed of several hundred elite researchers, and the "underground" industrial research institute of Yang Tai-ho, who has some 200 industrial patents to his own name.
有人戲稱台灣有兩所工業研究院：一是位於新竹，由數以百計的工業技術精英所組成的「地上工研院」；而「地下工研院」，則由個人擁有兩百餘項工業專利的楊泰和一人當家。