Key Innovative Industries
To stimulate economic growth, create new momentum for industrial development, and leverage the strengths of domestic businesses, Taiwan’s government, under the principle of “linking with local industries, domestic demand supporting industries, and entering international markets”, has been actively promoting the “5+N Innovative Industries” development program including the smart machinery, biomedicine, Asia Silicon Valley (Internet of Things), green energy, national defense, and circular economy industries, plus advanced semiconductors and other key industries. These plans will kickstart Taiwan’s next-generation industrial growth to achieve its vision of a fully digital economy that has a smart island infrastructure and high-value services and that is nuclear-free, energy efficient and has low carbon emissions.
Semiconductors
Taiwan has a comprehensive semiconductor industry cluster and is the world's densest and most technologically advanced semiconductor production base. Semiconductor manufacturing has been listed as a key industry for national development with the aim of upgrading the industry, achieving an innovative economy, and grasping developmental opportunities in the digital age.
Biomedicine
The plan includes four main initiatives: creating a complete ecosystem, integrating innovation clusters, linking with international markets and resources, and promoting specialty and key industries with the aim of transforming Taiwan into an Asia-Pacific hub for the biomedical R&D industry, advancing biotech industry development and making further progress toward the health and well-being of Taiwan’ s people.
Asian Silicon Valley
Using Taiwan's ICT industry advantages, the Internet of Things (IoT) will be used to stimulate industrial transition and upgrading and to build an R&D-based innovation and startup ecology that can link with core technology clusters around the world for the move into next-generation industries, and can form an Asia-Pacific developmental base for young innovators and entrepreneurs.
Services
To boost the investment momentum and increase the industrial competitiveness of the services industry, the National Development Fund of the Executive Yuan has allocated US$330 million to be invested jointly with funds from fund management companies to promote the development of strategic services. The purpose is to improve employment opportunities in the service sector, assist the service sector in internationalization and technological development, and increase export volume and production value.
National Defense
The procurement of defense equipment, and the upgraded and renewed domestic market, will stimulate the shipbuilding, aerospace, and information industries as well as manufacturers in peripheral fields such as machinery, materials, and electrical apparatus to become involved in state-of-the-art R&D. This will achieve the goal of technological innovation and help manufacturers to grow.
Circular Economy
With the advantage of Taiwan’s comprehensive industrial clusters, the waste management system will be reformed and application technology for the circular economy will be developed so as to reduce the negative impact on the environment caused in the process of utilizing resources, as well as to improve the efficiency of resource and energy use. This can help achieve the goals of balancing the economy, stabilizing development, and minimizing the burden on the environment.
Smart Machinery
Core and application technologies will be developed in line with the promotion of Industry 4.0, and the up-. mid-. and downstream sectors will be integrated in connection with local, international, and future trends. Priority will be given to introducing smart manufacturing into large manufacturers and SMEs, making effective use of leverage and diffusion effects to stimulate rapid annual growth in production value.
Green Energy
Green energy policies are focused on using energy generation, energy conservation, energy storage, and smart systems integration to provide a stable supply of energy, developing green-energy generation, and assuring sustainable operation and carbon reduction so as to achieve energy security, a green economy, and environmental sustainability.
