Constructing Employability Indicators for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Engineering Education for the Solar Industry

Table 3

Taiwanese solar product manufacturers sampled and interviewed in this study.

Manufacturers’ positions in the supply chain	Chief products	Number of companies sampled	Percentage (%)	Number of companies interviewed (%)
Upper-stream firms	Silica materials, silicon wafer materials	17	13.93	3 (25%)
Mid-stream firms		47	38.51	4 (33.33%)
	Solar cells	15	12.30
	Solar cell modules	18	14.73
	Thin-film solar cell modules	9	7.38
	Dye-sensitized solar cells	3	2.46
	Concentrator solar cell modules	2	1.64
Lower-stream firms		58	47.56	5 (41.67%)
	Solar photovoltaic system	39	31.98
	Solar photovoltaic converters	10	8.20
	Sales channels/suppliers of solar photovoltaic products	9	7.38
Total		122	100	12 (100%)

Source: [37, 38].