Panelists:
Dr. Hsing-Hsiung Chen, Visiting Scholar of SPRIE, Director of Integrated Research Division, ITRI. Dr. Chen has studied the policies and development of Taiwan's high-tech industry for more than 15 years.
Dr. Jian-Hung Chen, Visiting scholar of SPRIE, researcher of ITRI. His research interest is in the development of semiconductor, information technology and automobile industries.
David Wang, Vice President, Fibera Inc., CASPA President 2003-2004
Greater China is the most rapidly growing region in both production and market share in the semiconductor industry, and Chinese professionals play increasingly important roles for the development in the region. SPRIE/ITRI cooperated with CASPA, conducting a study to assess the perspectives of Chinese professionals on the rise of the IC industry in Greater China, and exploring the factors influencing their movement decisions. This panel will present a preview of data from the 2005 web-based survey and interviews--preliminary results, insights from the interviews, and potential implications for professionals, corporate managers, and policymakers.
CASPA: Chinese American Semiconductor Professional Association. With more than 3500 members and 10 chapters distributed across US and Asia, CASPA is the largest Chinese American semiconductor professional organization worldwide.
ITRI: Industrial Technology Research Institute. ITRI is a major industrial technology research institute in Taiwan, with more than 6,000 employees and annual budget around $US 5 billion. Many major Taiwanese semiconductor companies, such as TSMC and UMC, are ITRI spin-offs.
Hosted by the Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Asia-Pacific Research Center.