關於恢復力或韌性相關概念及理論已在其他領域被廣泛討論及應用，對於區域經濟面向之恢復力，則是在近十年內，尤其是經過2008年金融風暴後，更多學者及研究投入，為的是可以了解在面對更加全球化的經濟體，每個區域經濟體系可以如何面對外部經濟衝擊或是產業內部危機。而區域經濟恢復力的概念至今仍在學術界中討論，目前多數學者認同之定義為「一種區域經濟能重組(reconfigure)或調適(adapt)其結構(如企業、產業、技術或制度)的能力，使其在遭遇衝擊時，能維持可接受的生產力或就業狀況等方面之成長路徑」。應用於群聚研究時，可以被解釋為為了克服內部和外部的衝擊，而產生的調適能力。
知識時代的來臨，加上知識密集產業對台灣經濟發展貢獻度高，為台灣產業發展動力來源之一，因其產業群聚模式穩定發展而帶來的高產值受人推崇。目前科學園區暨周邊地區為臺灣發展完整之知識密集產業群聚，經歷多次經濟衝擊，例如亞洲金融風暴、網路泡沫化及2008年之金融海嘯，儘管當年度之產值等指標有受到影響，但卻還是在隔年就回到原本的正成長。爰此，本研究從區域經濟恢復力角度，探討臺灣知識密集產業群聚的發展，並試圖探討以下問題：是什麼因素讓台灣知識密集產業在過去面對經濟衝擊時具有恢復力?而不同區域及不同群聚背景發展，是否有不同之區域經濟恢復力。
本研究以臺灣科學園區暨周邊產業群聚作為研究範圍，藉由回顧討論影響知識密集產業群聚發展及區域經濟恢復力影響因素之文獻，以知識密集製造業群聚之區域經濟恢復力三大要素—產業結構、研發創新及跨國競合，作為分析架構之基礎進行整理討論，研究成果三大要素與群聚回應及調適衝擊的能力皆有一定顯著關係，產業結構、研發創新為正向關係，而跨國競合則同時有正向及負向影響。並且發現新竹及臺南地區群聚因其發展歷程不同，造就其生產網絡緊密程度及知識技術流通等差異，回應衝擊方式也有所不同。

The concept of resilience have been widely discussed and applied in other fields. For the regional economic resilience, more scholars have committed to their research especially after the Financial crisis of 2007–2008 in order to know how each regional economies face external economic shocks or internal obstacle. However, the concept of regional economic resilience is still discussed. Most scholars agree the definition is "a ability for regional economy to reconfigure, adapt, or maintain the economic shock".

When knowledge age coming, the high contribution of knowledge-intensive industries is one of the driving sources of Taiwan's industrial development, and the high economic value brought by the industrial clusters is stunned. Although they had been affected through several economic shocks, such as the Asian financial crisis of 1997, the Internet bubble of 2001 and the Financial crisis of 2008, they returned to the original growth in the following year. Based on this, this study discusses the development of Taiwan's knowledge-intensive industry cluster from the perspective of regional economic resilience, and tries to explore the following questions: What factors have made Taiwan's knowledge-intensive industries resilient when economic shocks happened, and whether the regional economic resilience in different regions may be different?

This study takes Taiwan knowledge-intensive industry cluster as the research case. By reviewing the literature that the development of knowledge-intensive industry cluster and the influencing factors of regional economic resilience. We discuss the three main elements of regional economic resilience, industrial structure, knowledge network and institution, as the basis of the analysis structure. To understand the difference of resilience for different cluster development, this paper makes a comparative analysis of the Hsinchu and Southern Science Park, which are mature clusters in Taiwan, and the results can be used for the future planning of Science Park.

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