This research studies how the selected countries make policies to solicit the international talents. It analyses the global and Taiwanese economic structures to make certain the types of wanted high-tech professionals. This research refers to the policies of other significant countries for international comparison and for Taiwan’s policy advice, which facilitate Taiwan to build friendly environment for foreign talents. This research adopts mainly qualitative method and secondly quantitative approach. It firstly analyses the transformations of global business environments and the adjustments of Taiwan’s industrial structures. Multinational companies face the changes of business functions from manufacturing positioning to logistics/management upgrading as well as the relocation of international R&D outsourcing, which result in the re-structuring of global industrial network. The profits of Taiwanese high-tech companies are largely squeezed so that Taiwanese companies need to devote to value-creation activities. Taiwan needs different portfolio of human resources to meet the insufficiencies of industrial structure in the following aspects: branding innovation, advanced technology innovation of the next-generation industrial development, the deepening of the basic technology and the designing and innovative idea-creations.
Next, in chapter 3, this research provides the talents-recruiting experience from other significant countries including OECD and Asia counties (Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, and Hong Kong). This research further makes the international comparison to investigate the advantages/disadvantages of different policies. Since most countries commit to raise the R&D intensity, Japan, OECD and Asia counties make incentive policies to recruit the high-tech professionals, which impact the demand and supply of international human resource. The brain circulation which benefited Taiwanese IT industry for such a long time may transform into brain diversion, ne