知識密集服務業發展策略之探討

根據主要工業國家經濟發展之經驗，每人GDP超過某一水準（約5,000美元），即邁入經濟成熟化階段，服務業興衰與整體經濟榮枯息息相關。易言之，大多數工業國家每人GDP達到5,000美元以上的水準，對改善生活品質的訴求增強，服務（例如醫療保健、文化、旅遊休閒娛樂等）需求轉殷；另方面，工商業發達，對現代專業型服務（例如運輸通信、金融保險、專業技術及設計、教育訓練等）需求明顯提高，促進相關服務業持續蓬勃發展，帶動經濟穩健成長與創造更多就業機會。

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.