2024 Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER)
Host Organization: Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER)
Website: http://english.tier.org.tw/
Organization Profile:
- TIER was Established in 1976 by Dr. Chen-Fu Koo with Dr. Sho-Chieh Tsiang (Nobel Economic Prize Nominee) being the first President
- The first private independent think tank in Taiwan
- TIER has around 500 full-time researchers with 33.5 million USD revenue in 2021.
- The current President of TIER is Dr. Chang, Chien-Yi
- Ranked 2nd in Taiwan and 19th overall in Top Think Tanks in Southeast Asia and the Pacific (Source: TTCSP 2020)
The mission of TIER is to conduct economic, industrial and innovation policy research, and to provide sound policy recommendations to Taiwan Government.
City: Taipei City
Internship format: In-person
Internship Department: Division III
Department Profile:
Division III is led by Dr. Kelly Lin, it has around 30 FTE researchers
The main research focus of DivIII are:
- National and regional Innovation Systems and Competitiveness
- Policy design and evaluation
- National Digital Transformation Strategy and Policy
- Innovation Indicators
- Innovation Policy and National IP policy Studies
- Taiwan Start-up Ecosystem and Policy
- Social Enterprise policy
- NetZero policy
- Skill Policy
Project description:
Conducting Big Data Analysis for Specific Technology Development Trend (e.g. Smart/ Green Manufacturing)
- Perform keyword extraction and text categorization on existing databases and policy documents based on specific international standards or classifications to determine specific technology development trends and mappings
- Find keywords/companies/other relevant information available to help further research efforts about those technologies
- Develop one to two case studies from the big data analysis
- Verify and refine results related to specific technologies with the help of TIER colleagues
Monitoring and analyzing the economic and social impacts of Industry Digital Transformation.
- Analyzing existing databases to determine relationships between different indicators (e.g., digital investment, digital maturity level) and economic/social impacts of industry digital transformation
- Further develop simple search and automated reporting tool to identify key economic impact of digital transformation and other related indicators for specific companies base on existing databases and work.
- Help to determine other sources of data for digital transformation impacts analysis
- TIER colleagues will continue to discuss with the intern to provide necessary guidance and know-how of the project
- Verify and refine results with the help of TIER colleagues
Building and Analyzing latest Cases Studies for Measuring and Reporting Enterprise’s ESG Performance
- The main purpose for the research is to build up real cases and practices/ methodologies for companies (in particularly small and medium size companies, SMEs) to better measure and report their ESG performance.
- Key issues related to cases studies including determination of specific measurement index or identification of potential source of data.
- TIER colleagues can provide sources/ list of relevant candidates for case studying, while the intern can also choose his/her own.
- TIER colleagues will continue to discuss with the intern to provide necessary guidance and know-how of the project
- Verify and refine results with the help of TIER colleagues
Number of Opening(s): 1
Work Hours and Internship Start/End Dates: (Monday to Friday, June 24 – August 16, 2024): Full time/Five days a week/35 hour a week.
Local Language: Mandarin (Not required but Chinese language speaking, and reading are preferred)
Additional desired intern qualifications: First project requires programming skills
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