知識密集服務業發展策略之探討

李瑞珠

《台灣經濟論衡》 2卷9期 (2004/09) Pp. 1-46

並列摘要

Being a leading sector in the post-industrial era, service industry plays a pivotal role in economic growth, job creation and increase of tax revenue. If measured by services' share of GDP as an indicator for economic maturity, the development of Taiwan's service industry reached the stage equivalent to that of the advanced industrial countries in the late 1990s. However, Taiwan is still lagging somewhat behind those countries in terms of labor absorption by the service sector. The government must adopt two approaches to reducing this gap. On the one hand, it has sought to design public policy with a view to modernizing the traditional service sector, increasing its knowledge intensity, maintaining its sound development, and enabling it to continue to absorb low-skilled or unskilled labor in order to relieve the pressure of structural unemployment. On the other hand, it should adopt a more proactive strategy to develop knowledge-intensive professional service industries with the aim of promoting overall economic growth and creating more jobs opportunities for highly educated and well trained manpower.