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TIER Industry Reports - Taiwan focused, but globally relevant

Published January 25, 2013 by Mark Bodnar

This post is about a bunch of Taiwan industry reports, but -- before you click away saying that you aren't interested because you aren't researching Taiwan -- consider that Taiwan is 18th in the world when it comes to exports, but only 52nd if ranked by population.

This is clearly a country that is punching above its weight in world markets -- and a report on one of their industries can often be used to understand the global nature of the same industry, especially in cases where Taiwan is among the leaders for that industry (think: "high-tech stuff").

So, with that in mind, may I introduce the TIER Industry Reports in Business Source Complete: Published by the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, each brief (8-14 pages) TIER Industry report addresses an industry's production & consumption trends, competitive & economic issues affecting sales, and much more.

As mentioned above, the high-tech industry reports have the most obvious global application. See, for example...

A quick glance at the "Made in" statements on items in your home or office will illustrate that Taiwan is about more than high-tech products in the global marketplace. Consider...

Even the reports on industries where Taiwan isn't known as a world leader can have useful information on global trends that are affecting the industry both there and elsewhere. For example...

To find these reports, go into Business Source Complete and search for "TIER Industry Report" in the Publication Name field. Or (easier) just look for a link to them in the International section of our Industry Surveys research guide.