The start of research in Taiwan TIU was in many respects a university aimed at supporting government policy and serving as a government think tank. NTU would carry on TIU's traditions of education and academic research, and many of its research focuses after the war can be traced back to the era of Japanese administration.
台灣研究的濫觴由於台北帝大在某種程度上，肩負國策大學、政府智庫的角色，因此台大也承襲了教學與研究兼具的傳統，戰後許多本土學術研究的起點，都要溯源至此。