Hong Kong isn't only poaching from Taiwanese schools: it has also recruited top Taiwanese talent working in other nations, including Nobel laureate and National Cheng Kung University graduate Paul Chu, who has become president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and noted biomedical engineer and NTU graduate Chang Hsin-kang, who was hired as president of City University of Hong Kong.
香港不僅向台灣學界挖角，也向海外的台灣高階人才招手，例如邀請諾貝爾獎得主、台灣成大畢業的朱經武擔任香港科技大學校長，以及全球知名醫學工程專家、台大畢業的張信剛擔任香港城市大學校長等等。