Introduce international R&D resources

Invited global firms to establish offices in Taiwan.

  • 2016.10 Established an IoT innovation center

  • 2018.1 Established an AI R&D center

  • 2018.11 Established a Microsoft startup accelerator

  • 2018.3 Launched Smart Taiwan Program

  • 2019.3 Established an IoT laboratory (2019.3)

  • 2019.6 Established an AWS innovation center at Startup Terrace in Linkou

  • 2019.11 Established a smart innovation application demonstration sites in Qingpu, Taoyuan.

Promote industry exchanges and collaborations

Promoted the establishment of an IoT industry alliance

Promoted the establishment of Asian Silicon Valley-Major League IoT to accelerate integration of industries and facilitate communication of policies. The Asian Silicon Valley-Major League IoT promoted interdisciplinary exchanges between domestic and overseas enterprises, unions, associations, legal entities, schools and startups related to the IoT, and currently has close to 400 members. There are 9 SIGs, in the domains of smart traffic, logistics, manufacturing, energy efficiency and environmental monitoring, business, family, agriculture, medical care and IoT information security, actively facilitating exchanges between the industry, government and academia.

Promote Smart City Taiwan

220＋proposals from companies were reviewed and approved. Investments from public and private sectors totaled about NT$billion.


Smart City Taiwan was launched in April 2017. County and city government bodies offered venues for the industries to run demo and validation of smart city solutions to make smart applications available in both urban and rural areas and realize the vision of local innovation.

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Note: Because some cases are promoted across different counties and cities, there are more than 220 cases in each county and city.