A Study on the Factors in the Industrial Cluster of Agricultural Biotechnology Parks

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Abstract-The research standard of domestic agricultural biotechnology is high and broad, while the industrialization speed is far behind the research standard. In order to accelerate the development of agricultural biotechnology industry, "agricultural biotechnology parks" which present R&D processing & marketing and operation functions are planned to rapidly form agricultural technology industrial clusters and accelerate the development of agricultural technology. Experts in agricultural biotechnology parks are analyzed in this study. Total 150 copies of questionnaire are distributed and 102 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 68％. The research results sequence the importance of "Level 2" evaluation standards as "technology and knowledge resource", "public infrastructure", "government", "human resource", "financial resource", and "supportive industry". Among 21 evaluation indices, top 5 emphasized indices contain technological innovation, R&D facilities, training institutions, network information service, and R&D incentive. Based on the research result, suggestions are proposed in this study, expecting to rapidly form agricultural technology industrial clusters, accelerate the development of agricultural technology, and expand high value-added product export to catch up with advanced countries with agriculture.Key words-government, human resource, public infrastructure, supportive industry, technology I. INTRODUCTONHigh value-added and knowledge-oriented industries are currently promoted and developed in Taiwan. In order to develop agricultural technology, the government links the agricultural technology "industrial cluster", which presents mutual correlations of commonality and complementarity, to enhance the transformation of agriculture industry. Domestic agricultural biotechnology presents high and broad research standard, but the industrialization speed is far behind the research standard. In order to accelerate the development of agricultural biotechnology industry, "agricultural biotechnology parks" with R&D processing & marketing and operation functions are planned to rapidly form agricultural technology industrial clusters, accelerate the development of agricultural technology, and expand the high value-added product export, expecting to catch up advanced countries with agricultural biotechnology industry.As biotechnology industry is gradually emphasized by governments in various countries, biotechnology prefectures are rapidly established to result in fierce competition in the future environment. When biotechnology prefectures are massively constructed for biotechnology industry, it is extremely important for the government, the main force to support the industry, applying limited resources. Nonetheless, it is concerned how to avoid overinvestment or scattered resources, i.e. how government departments apply limited resources to key factors for establishing agricultural biotechnology parks different from other technology parks to further create the competitive advantage. For this reaso...