隨著「文化創意產業」方興未艾的風潮，以及對於「工業遺產」長期經營維護的需求，工業遺產的產業化亦成為受人注目的一項主題。本研究目的在於了解臺灣地區工業遺產發展之歷程，並探討社會變遷與工業遺產發展模式之關連性。 工業遺產指的是具有歷史價值、技術價值、社會意義、建築或科學研究價值的工業文化遺留物所構成。這些文化遺留物包括建物與機械、工作室、磨坊、工廠、礦場以及從事相關加工與精煉化的場址、倉庫和貨棧、產製、輸送和使用能源的場所、交通運輸及其基礎設施。除此之外，還有與工業生產相關的其他社會活動場所，如住房供給、宗教崇拜或者教育。 本文以小澤、卡斯特羅和菲利浦斯(Ozawa, Castello and Phillips)的新經濟模式結合臺灣地區社會變遷理論，做為本研究分析的基礎工具。本縱貫型研究，透過蒐集有關市場資訊、調查報告、產業動態等文獻資料，從而全面地、正確地掌握研究問題的「文獻分析法」做為主要研究方法。本研究以「文化遺產」、「酒廠」、「九份」等等重要工業遺產為搜尋關鍵字，透過收集1951年12月至2010年3月間之臺灣報紙報導，分析其代表的工業遺產發展模式。 本研究發現，臺灣地區工業遺產發展可分為「引入期」、「發展期」、「衰退期」、「再生期」四大時期。另外，也發現工業遺產發展時期與臺灣社會變遷有著相當緊密的關連性。

The notice for industrial heritage is now growing rapidly worldwide. What are the development stages of Taiwanese industrial heritage? What are the relationships between social change and industrial heritage’s development models in Taiwan? These questions are the focal of this study. Industrial heritage consists of the remains of industrial culture which are of historical, technological, social, architectural or scientific value. These remains consist of buildings and machinery, workshops, mills and factories, mines and sites for processing and refining, warehouses and stores, places where energy is generated, transmitted and used, transport and all its infrastructure, as well as places used for social activities related to industry such as housing, religious worship or education. This study adapts Ozawa, Castello and Phillips, transformation and innovation models as the foundation of theories. This historical research also adapts content analysis methodology to examine the development of industrial heritage .We use "Industrial Heritage", "Cultural Heritage", "Brewery"," Mine" and other eight keywords to search related newspaper reports from December 1951 to March 2010. We found out the development of Taiwanese industrial heritage have been divided “introduction stage”, “development stage”, “decline stage”, and “rebirth stage”. We also found out there were close relationships between social change and industrial heritage’s development models in Taiwan.