It appears that think tanks are a fashionable novelty in Taiwan these days. Peter Jackson, a scholar of public policy in United States, has described think tanks as "knowledge factories," corresponding to the trend toward the knowledge-based economy. One cannot help but make the connection: Has the era of rational policy discussion, and of the "revolving door" between government and scholarly posts, arrived?
美國公共政策研究學者 Peter F. Drucker 曾形容智庫是「知識工業」，對照於知識經濟的時代潮流，不禁讓人聯想：台灣理性政策討論、政務官與學術界「旋轉門」頻繁流動的時代是否已經來臨？