A total of 40 Taiwanese firms operating overseas have pledged to invest more than NT$200 billion (US$6.48 billion) back into the local market so far this year, responding to the government's call to shift some of their investments back to Taiwan, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).
As part of the effort to promote the “five-plus-two industry innovation plan” and to provide more job opportunities to the general public, the Ministry of Economic Affairs held the “Five-Plus-Two and Biotech Pharmaceutical Industries Job Fair in Taipei ” at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1, on April 20 at 10 a.m..
In line with the New Southbound Policy, as an effort to enhance international presence of Taiwan, as well as to facilitate the entry of Taiwan’s SMEs into the Malaysian market, the Small and Medium Enterprise Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs of Taiwan, together with Malaysia SME Corp., co-organized The 3rd Taiwan-Malaysia SME Cooperation and Business Matching, in conjunction with the APEC International Event.
In order to sustain the momentum of digital innovation in APEC, and to echo the APEC theme 2019, “Connecting People, Building the Future”, as well as the priorities, such as Digital Society, SMEs and Inclusive Growth, Small and Medium Enterprise Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Chinese Taipei work hand-in-hand with SME Corporation Malaysia to co-host “APEC O2O Forum: Empowering SMEs to Go Global through Digital Transformation” on 17 April in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
On March 27th, the Industrial Development Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs held the Data Economy X Global Cooperation – 2019 International Salon on Data Economy & Industrial Innovation, inviting departments and organizations in charge of open data from Japan, Malaysia and India to exchange views and discuss innovative development, key challenges and international cooperation models of the data economy.
Taiwan ranked as the largest semiconductor material market in the world for the ninth consecutive year in 2018, according to data released Wednesday by the global industry association SEMI.
Google Inc. announced March 27 an expanded investment and training program for Taiwan aimed at deepening the local talent pool in key emerging sectors and positioning the country as a regional digital technologies hub.
In 2018, TIPO received 47,429 applications for invention patents, an annual increase of 3% and a second-year consecutive growth; 8,082 applications for design patents, which are just about the same from last year, and 17,910 for utility models, making a drop of 8%.
To assist businesses in learning more about the IPR regimes and practices in the major countries listed in the New Southbound Policy, TIPO recently collected information on the IPR regimes, practices, registration, and related procedures in question of six countries – the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Vietnam and Thailand.
Taiwan ranks 10th out of 180 economies around the world in the latest Index of Economic Freedom released Jan. 25 by Washington-based think tank The Heritage Foundation, marking its best ever result in the annual report.
