TDP for Academia

The program aims to enhance collaborations between universities, businesses, and research facilities in the development of innovative products and technology services so that R&D results in universities can be realized in mass production and supports can be offered to the industry for developing new products and turning R&D results into new businesses, thereby creating more values for the industry and benefits for the society.

Depending on the stage of technology development, the projects funded under this program are grouped into two categories, general projects (bottom-up) and flagship projects (top-down). The projects are jointly implemented by businesses, universities, and research institutes to pool their resources. Together, they commercialize a technology, develop a technology into an enterprise (general projects), or help an industry close a technology gap (flagship projects).

The Program provides subsidies to universities to encourage technology commercialization and business creation. DoIT promotes the “Industrial Value Creation Program for Academia” and the “Technology Development Program for Academia” to encourage universities to leverage their basic research capabilities and facilities to develop advanced and innovative industrial technologies, produce key intellectual property and create start-up companies or spin-in business units.