Industrial Development Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs
Smart Electronic Chip Development Program
智慧電子晶片發展計畫
Eligibility
Companies properly registered under Taiwan's Company Act or Business Registration Act.
What’s offered
Two pillars: incubation counseling that grows talent in target chip-design domains via four service streams and eight resource categories, and applied-innovation counseling that helps chip firms commercialize new technologies and integrate them into supply chains.
Key terms
- Application
- Submit a written application — reviewed on documentation.
- Document and site-visit review
- Written-document and on-site review leading to a counseling plan.
Program structure
Talent-development domains
- IC / SoC / FPGA design.
- AI.
- IoT.
- Communication.
- Embedded Software.
- ICT system design / integration.
Four incubation services
- Company tenancy — On-site incubator workspace for chip-design firms.
- Resource linkage — Bridge to upstream and downstream resources.
- Local transformation — Support the local-market transition of incubatees.
- Incubation counseling — Personalized incubation and growth coaching.
Eight counseling resources
- Talent recruitment
- Marketing expansion
- Resource support
- Innovation R&D
- Plan enhancement
- Application deployment
- Venture investment
- Technical support
Innovation technology application — main services
- Enterprise operations & innovation technology consulting
- Innovative application development and promotion
- Matchmaking and exchange
- Matchmaking promotion — Industry working-group communications and technology exchange.
- Operations & innovation tech consulting — Help firms refine business models, build personnel capabilities, and connect to investment / cooperation channels.
- Interoperability standard promotion — Promote interoperability standards through online and offline communication and counseling.
Application window
Per official announcement each cycle.
Who to contact
National Sun Yat-sen University Southern Taiwan Industry Development Research Center
國立中山大學南臺灣產業發展研究中心
Ms. Huang (黃小姐) / Ms. Chen (陳小姐)
07/970-0910 #20 / 07/970-0910 #27
English-language application support: not confirmed. Plan to bring a Mandarin-fluent collaborator to the first conversation.