Six or seven years ago, the National Science Council began devoting 30percent of its annual research budget to academia to what it calls "goal-oriented research" --vertically integrated research plans that span the upper, middle and lower stream and involve related organizations and agencies in government, academia and industry.
六、七年前，國科會開始在每年提供給學術界的研究費用中，百分之卅放在所謂「目標導向研究」﹘﹘結合相關部會、學界、產業界，擴大上、中、下游垂直整合的研究計畫。