What works in Hsinchu
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Evidence snapshot for Hsinchu
Hsinchu Science Park is Taiwan's flagship semiconductor cluster, established in 1980 and now hosting 584 companies that employ 177,389 workers across 1,471 hectares. As of December 2024, the park generated combined revenue of NT$1.51 trillion (approximately US$46 billion), representing 6.66% year-on-year growth, and is home to TSMC and UMC, the world's two largest dedicated semiconductor foundries. The park expanded to six campuses anchored by two universities and has become a widely cited international model for university-based technology clusters, though the evidence reports aggregate industry output rather than isolating how much activity is specifically attributable to university knowledge transfer versus broader semiconductor-market dynamics.
Drawn from: ITRI — Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute · Hsinchu Science Park · ITRI — Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute and the Origins of TSMC
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evidence of impact / measured results +32 pts 89 here · 57 average
Innovation +27 pts 89 here · 62 average
Sustainability / continuity +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Scalability +16 pts 78 here · 62 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -43 pts 0 here · 43 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Hsinchu. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
ITRI — Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute · 76
Hsinchu Science Park · 71
ITRI — Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute and the Origins of TSMC · 62
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