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“Feng Shui” has been related to residential environment, and it still a key element in housing purchase decision-making. Meanwhile, it is still not clear that cognitive extent of Feng Shui and how Feng Shui influence housing purchase decision-making. This study investigate real and potential housing shoppers who take use of the service of a famous real estate agency in Tainan. 100 questionnaire were collected and analyzed. The result shows that cognitive of Feng Shui were classified to three factors, including “high-involved cognitive”, “facilities cognitive”, and “normal cognitive”. Further more, housing shoppers were classified to two groups, including “Feng Shui-involved” and Feng Shui-ignored”. Shoppers classified to “Feng Shui-involved” tends to avoided most of negative elements for housing purchase.

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 Over the years, there are many literatures in industrial geography and new regionalism field agreed that industrial clusters are the key points to develop the industrial economy in the era of globalization. Because of the different integrated elements, they form different effects to come into cluster.

In Taiwan, Hisnchu Science Park has owned the highly visible innovative village of semiconductor industries and it has the most complete industrial chain which links with global semiconductor industries. The Setting of HsinChu Science Park is not only changed the industrial structure of industrial zone, but also advanced the development of high-tech industries and promoted the growth of relative firms in HsinChu City. It is clearly that the science park has pushed forward the effect of industrial economy and innovative clusters around the great HsinChu area.

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The author proposes an alternative dynamic pattern to explain workers migration, and a production behavior to include the non-market agglomeration effect into the model. The dynamic process of worker migration is derived from the model implicitly with microfoundation rather than explicitly apply a migration law from evolutionary game which is independent of the model and without microfoundation.

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