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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 Industrial Development Bureau, MOEA, and Ministry of
Science and Technology have jointly implemented the "Taiwan Industry
Innovation Platform Program" to guide industries to develop towards

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