In 2014, DoIT kick-started the A+ Industrial Innovative R&D Program (the A+ Program) as a continuation of the Industrial Technology Development Program (ITDP). The aim of the A+ Program is to encourage and guide businesses to invest in high value-adding cutting-edge industrial technologies and to facilitate the multidisciplinary integration, thus perfecting Taiwan's industrial development. As a continuation of the ITDP, we continue to provide subsidies to businesses to help them get involved in innovation, development, and research programs; and to encourage them to establish onshore R&D centers, develop global R&D partnerships, and initiate similar programs, hoping that our industries will have a greater impact on the world.
To reduce the risk of Taiwan's IC design companies investing in cutting-edge technologies and to encourage them to develop advanced technology chips, the Ministry of Economic Affairs has launched the "IC Design Summit Subsidy Program". The program requires that the submitted applications must have a chip whose specification is equivalent to or surpasses the international leading products by 2026. The applications must include the chip design, trial production, and customers' early verification.
To strengthen Taiwan industry's ability to research and develop leading technologies, and enable Taiwan to become a global high-tech research and development (R&D) center, by galvanizing foreign and domestic international leading enterprises to develop advanced technologies in Taiwan, collaborate with local industrial ecosystem on R&D, and accelerate the deployment of blue ocean strategies.
In order to promote and encourage the development of unmanned vehicle technology, the Department of Industrial Technology (DoIT) formulated the "Unmanned Vehicle Technology Innovation Experimental Regulations" by introducing the supervisory sandbox to build a safe experimental environment. This regulation could encourage all the innovators from industry, academe and research to devote themselves to the POC, POS and POB of unmanned vehicle, which could temporarily exclude the application of relevant supervision regulations within a specific scope.
In order to promote the diversified applications and service development of the autonomous vehicle, facilitate the process of innovative technology commercialization, encourage practitioners to develop and implement the innovative application and operation verification of autonomous vehicle technology, the government propose the program to implement the development of autonomous vehicle technology Industrialization.