The rural regeneration policy has stepped into the third stage since
its augment. Its evolution reflects that the rural development in Taiwan
has shifted from addressing specific problems to advocating diversified
actions. Similarly, the regional revitalization policy, which takes the
population issue as its prime target, also expands its implementation
scheme from a single approach to multiple channels. The evolvement of
both policies shows that the exogenous intervention posed by the
governments is unable to meet the flexibility of local development.
However, on the other side, the three-dimensional policy structure
constructed by both policies still throws challenges to rural development.
The strategy to connect and manage the collaboration network for
rural development is critical to the neo-endogenous development model
but never easy. Yet the experience in Taiwan reflects three questions
unanswered by the neo-endogenous development theory: First, how
should we design a strategic plan to respond to the diversified issues.
Secondly, which scale could play the integration game. And thirdly, what
capabilities are necessary for managing the collaboration network. There
would be different answers to these questions according to the local
context. Evaluating the possible strategies to organize the collaboration
network and support innovative initiatives could help the rural community with future challenges.