By creating an environment fit for "entrepreneurship" and "innovation", NTU Innovation & Incubation Center (NTUIIC) is dedicated to removing obstacles for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) to start a new business, addressing the problem of insufficient technology research capacity in enterprises, and facilitating the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. With the University's research capacity, knowledge can be excavated more economically and transferred to enterprises via the NTUIIC platform before being transformed into value-added industrial knowledge, and further bolstering the competitiveness of industries.
By creating an SME-friendly incubation environment with the integration of on and off-campus resources, NTUIIC aspires to make the local innovation industry more competitive in the world and to facilitate the commercialization of NTU's research results.
The center incubates around 21 to 30 high-tech SMEs in startup and expansion stages each year by offering comprehensive help so that the enterprises can grow steadily and give back to NTU.
Ample workspace:
With incubation space and shared laboratories to offer, the exclusive 2,000-ping incubation building located on NTU's Shui-Yuan campus can accommodate at least 40 resident enterprises.
Extensive facilities:
Enterprises' demand for research and development can be met by the center's free of charge public facilities such as conference rooms, exhibition rooms, and shared instrument rooms, as well as exclusive laboratories of different departments that can be used under industrial-academic cooperation projects or with extra payment.
Talented people:
With more than 2,000 professors from ten colleges, NTU is capable of offering the most professional technology consulting services. Experts from the industries are also hired to further guide and assist enterprises according to their needs.
Abundant experience:
The center provides resident enterprises with diverse and in-depth services based on its extensive experience in industrial-academic cooperation projects, professional management personnel, comprehensive yet flexible operating mechanism, and thorough databases.
(Any enterprise or preparatory office that meets the Standards for Identifying Small and Medium-sized Enterprises within the Republic of China with prototypes of innovative technologies or products is eligible for application.)
