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2 Subsidies

1. The Global R&D Innovation Partner Program

Some foreign companies have a high degree of complementarity with
Taiwan's industries. To encourage them to engage in R&D and innovation
activities in Taiwan, such companies, after gaining approval from the MOEA,
will be eligible for subsidies of up to 50% of total R&D expenditures if they: (1)
have technologies that are not yet mature in Taiwan or overseas, and could
create strategic products, services, or industries over the course of future
industrial development; (2) have potential to help Taiwan produce leading
technologies or significantly enhance the competitiveness and increase
the added value of important industries; or (3) engage in key and common
technology R&D, vertical or horizontal technology integration, and can create
an industrial value chain.
2. Integrated R&D Program

Companies, once approved by the MOEA, will be eligible for subsidies
of no less than 40% but no more than 50% of total project funding if they: (1)
engage in key and common technology R&D, vertical or horizontal technology
integration, and can create an industrial value chain; (2) establish industry
standards, protocols, or platforms; or (3) establish applications, services, and
innovative business and marketing models with technological content, and
increase industry's added value.
3. Taiwan Industry Innovation Platform Program

The MOEA Industrial Development Bureau and the Ministry of Science
and Technology are jointly implementing the "Taiwan Industry Innovation
Platform Program" to guide industries to develop towards greater value, and
to encourage companies to enter high-end product application markets to
increase industry's overall added value. For companies owning R&D teams
in Taiwan, the program provides 40-50% of the funding required for theme-
based R&D projects, and up to 40% of funding for R&D projects proposed by
the companies themselves.

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