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Taipei, China, has achieved remarkable development & export performance in its electronics & info. technol. industry (EITI) in the past 3 decades. Starting out as heavily dependent on foreign technol. in the 1960s & 1970s, firms devoted considerable technol. effort & successfully participated in new product development by the 1990s. The structure of the EITI has evolved from a small- & medium-size enterprises into large-firms by the late 1990s, which further facilitated the export orientation of the industry. The government adopted selective industrial policies to overcome the problem of market failure & enhanced systemic coordination & cohesive networking, & thus essentially made,Ó rather than picked,Ó the winner of the industry. Charts & tables.