Implementation content and promotion results

The semiconductor and biomedicine industries in the park continued to show strong development momentum, attracting many visiting groups to STSP for exchange. According to statistics, a total of 74 groups with 1,319 visitors visited STSP in 2023, demonstrating the importance and influence of STSP in the industry and successful extension to the international societies with the science park development experience. STSP Bureau will continue to strengthen cooperation and exchanges with all parties to promote the innovative development and upgrading of the park.

Representatives from Lithuania visit STSP to promote tech diplomacy

Gintautas, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports of Lithuania led a delegation and visited STSP on February 7, 2023 to learn about the park and industrial development. Lithuania's main industries include electronics technology, financial technology (fintech), biomedicine technology, electric vehicle manufacturing industry and others, and Lithuania is also known as the Baltic Tiger. The delegation included many experts and scholars from Vilnius University, who showed great interest in STSP's collaboration models among industry, government, academia, and research institutions, the startup cultivation capacity, park environmental construction, funding sources and others. Finally, they went to iBIOMED FLAGSHIP HALL and 3R LIFE SCIENCES LTD. to observe biotechnologies such as artificial hearts and learned about the development of the precision health industry in the park. Close exchanges were made between both parties, creating new opportunities for collaboration.

Startups Learning from Israel

To enhance the competitiveness of industrial innovation and stimulate the transformation of industrial clusters in the science parks in Taiwan, Hsinchu Science Park Bureau, CTSP Bureau, and STSP Bureau organized a group to visit Israel, renowned as the "Startup Nation", targeting startups and entrepreneurship institutions, aiming at learning from Israel's successful experience in promoting new startups. This can serve as a reference for industrial transformation of science parks and the promotion of R&D innovation.

This time, we visited Israel's Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, which sets priority areas for R&D (such as relatively advantageous technologies, technologies with significant economic potential, addressing specific challenges, etc.), develops talents, establishes infrastructure, and promotes international cooperation. A visit was also paid to Israel's Ministry of Environmental Protection. Israel's sewage recovery rate is as high as 87%, and it applies advanced technology to solve the natural water shortage problem caused by environmental factors, which is worthy of reference for Taiwan. In addition to government agencies, we also visited Ben-Gurion University technology-transfer companies and companies like Mobileye and Chain Reaction to learn the operating mechanism of promoting startups and learn from the successful experience as a reference for the industrial transformation of science parks to facilitate R&D innovation.

IASP World Conference Focuses on Global Technology Trends

International Association of Science Parks (IASP) is the most important international science park organization, attracting science parks and innovation park managers, policymakers, experts, and scholars from all over the world to attend this conference every year to share the latest scientific and technological trends and park management experience.

Director-General, Dr. Su Chen-Kang of STSP Bureau led a team to Europe from September 9 to 17 in 2023 to attend the IASP World Conference. Participants were from 55 countries. The theme of the conference this year was "Megatrends in Innovation Ecosystem: What are the impacts for STPs & AOIs?" Case studies were used to explore future challenges science parks may face and serve as a reference for policymaking.

In addition, with the assistance of the Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium, Science and Technology Division and the Wissenschaftsabteilung, Taipeh Vertretung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the team was arranged to visit Tech Lane Ghent Science Park, the economic development agency IDELUX, and the automated valet parking in the parking garage at Stuttgart airport. In addition to learning about supporting startups and constructing technological facilities as reference for the operational planning of the industrial area, STSP Bureau Director-General also introduced to the visiting units the current industrial development of STSP based on the semiconductor industry, and the development direction toward Beyond 5G, the next generation of mobile communication systems, low-earth orbit satellites and other fields.