The nation is seeking to recruit skilled individuals from Japan's high-tech sector for its domestic optoelectronics industry, a spokesman for the Cabinet-level Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) said yesterday.
Government agencies have maintained contacts with about 200 professionals in Japan's optoelectronics sector after an official recruitment delegation visited Tokyo, New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and San Francisco late last month, the spokesman said.
Claiming that Japan's high-tech workforce is highly competitive and that some 200 of them have shown interest in coming to work in Taiwan, he said that government authorities will further work out preparations and arrangements to make it possible for them to relocate.
Citing CEPD statistics, he said that the supply-demand gap in Taiwan's high-tech spectrum is deteriorating fast. He pointed out that domestic high-tech companies will need about 248,000 professionals with an advanced education over the next three years, while supply is estimated at 198,000, resulting in a shortfall of 5,000.
The nation's authorities are actively promoting the optoelectronics industry, which has been targeted by the Cabinet in its flagship "two-trillion, two-star" program that also includes the biotechnology and digital content industries.
The output value of Taiwan's optoelectronics industry will hit NT$1.02 trillion (US$30 billion) this year, a 38 percent jump from last year, the Optoelectronics and Systems (OES) Laboratories of the semi-official Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI,
The OES Lab predicted that the figure will keep climbing to NT$1.25 trillion next year and NT$1.62 trillion in 2006.
Currently, the optoelectronics industry focuses on exploiting the business potential of liquid crystal displays, while the demand for optical storage will gradually rise and become another promising sector that enjoys production value of over NT$1 trillion by 2008, the institute said.
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