Jeff Babb looks at the way the Taiwanese Government has helped create and underwrite the island-state’s biotechnology industry. Are there lessons here for Australia?Biotech is big news, but can Taiwan repeat its success with the information technology industry and become a world centre in biotech, as the Government in Taipei intends?In addressing the “Bio Taiwan 2003” trade fair at the World Trade Centre, President Chen Shui-bian said the Government had included biotech in its “Challenge 2008: T…
