Industrial Technology Advancement Award Application Instructions
Words from the Director General
Due to the fact that the recent international competition is fierce, industrial R&D has been the focus of our main efforts for industrial upgrading. Taiwan has also displayed an eye-catching performance in industrial R&D. Facing the trend of globalization, free trading, and changes in the industrial structure, Taiwan’s economy is also transforming, evolving towards the “innovation-driven” mode of “Added-values” by through additional use of the R&D energy. As Dr. W. Chan Kim pointed out in his book “Blue Ocean Strategy”, “value innovation” describes the essential activities of corporations as they open up a profitable blue ocean. Taiwan’s domestic industries should create unique benefits for their customers and integrate values and innovation through technology. In this way, they can further use current advantages in the country to find a cut-in point in the immense global market, as well as to develop added-value and cost-lowering benefits to make Taiwan one of key players in the industrial value chain in the trend of globalization. On the other hand, in light of the intense international competition, only by making Taiwan the Industrial R&D Center step by step, focusing on the fundamentals, enhancing technology strength, establishing Taiwan as an integrator of globalization and resources, and implementing “deep plowing Taiwan” can we effectively engage globalization and face the challenges of competition from other parts of the world.
With this in mind, Department of Industrial Technology (DOIT) has set the theme of the “2006 Industrial Technology Advancement Award” (hereafter referred to as “the Award”) as “Deep Plow in Taiwan, and Added-value Innovation”, in the expectation that the domestic industry can pursue excellent innovations while working on the fundamentals of R&D to enhance their roots in Taiwan. Only by building up the domestic industrial value chain and focusing on innovative R&D “intensively” and “extensively” can we make agile utilization of technology strategies, so as to strengthen Taiwan’s competitive capability. We expect the domestic industry to think ahead to realize the prospect of “Think Globally, Act Locally” for enterprises to continue enhance capabilities for “innovative values”, so as to face the challenges of the coming years.
Entering the 14th year, the Award has seen nearly 800 corporate participants and honored over 200 enterprises with outstanding achievements in innovations and bestowed 15 individuals with extraordinary contributions in their fields. The Award also witnessed the strength of Taiwan enterprises in world-class technology advancements and the key intellectual capital for globalization. The winners of the Award have all performed excellently and acquired sterling reputations. Many corporate leaders even see the award participation as a key performance indicator. Previous award events had not only won enthusiastic responses from the domestic industry, but also boosted R&D advancements in other trades through exchanges with the award winners. We expect to commend outstanding enterprises with awards that closely cope with the trend of the times, the industrial impulses, as well as the added value of the innovation. As well as actively integrating R&D energies in the industrial, governmental, academic and institutional sectors for achieving innovations in the domestic R&D and setting up samples of industrial technology developments.
Last but not the least, on behalf of MOEA, I warmly welcome enterprises and individuals in Taiwan to apply for the 14th “MOEA Industrial Technology Advancement Awards” and continue to support us, as well as to offer suggestions and comments on the Award. I also hope that this Award will be able to energize domestic efforts for innovative R&D and accelerate the process of making Taiwan an international center of R&D innovation.
Department of Industrial Technology 2006.03.29
