Lee Jen-fang, director of National Chengchi University's Graduate Institute of Technology and Information Management, has written that business, government and academia used to believe that if Taiwan wanted to escape the curse of low margins it had to transform its economy as rapidly as possible from one that was manufacturing driven to one that was knowledge based.
政治大學科技管理所教授李仁芳為文指出，早些年產官學界的時髦論述是，台灣要脫離「微利化」的詛咒，要儘早從製造經濟轉向技術自主的「知識經濟」；後來發現，很多所謂的「知識產業」仍在低毛利邊緣掙扎。