TaipeiEcon
Inventory of all articles of TaipeiEcon
Inventory of all articles of TaipeiEcon
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By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
The Taipei City Government has built up the first “IoT experimental platform” in Taiwan. It has become a trial field, which integrates the value chain of a smart city and applied industries. Because of that, it can trigger multiple applications as well as innovations. It can also lead the industry to develop a solution and a model for whole factory exports. To speed up promoting a smart city and IoT applications and innovations, the government finished deploying the scope of communications. The scope can cover the entire WSNs in IoT (LoRa) across Taipei City. People expected that the government would display all types of innovations and applications on the international stage at the Universiade 2017 and WCIT 2017 by opening up the city to serve as a field for experimental use. It can bring in sufficient energy for research and development.
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By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
To promote exceptional Taiwan agricultural products and increase the revenue of farms in Taipei the City Government actively promotes Farmers’ Market events at the Taipei Expo venue. This provides an excellent sales platform for featured agricultural products produced by small farmers around Taiwan. At the same time, this also provides an ideal site for recreational shopping. In addition to the sale products, education in agricultural practice is important. The “Small Garden Educational Project” is a call to schools and community colleges in 12 districts to participate in the fun of farming. This combines education and life experience to further realize this new vision of a garden city.
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By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The development of Ximending can be traced back to Japanese rule when it was planned as a special entertainment area. At Ximending you will find little Hong Kong, Tattoo Street, Film Street, Sichuan Cuisine Street, America Street, and Mingtaizi Street. Ximending has undergone enormous historical development and now leads the new generation of fashion culture. The Huaxi Night Market is on “Bangka” which was once Taipei’s first street and was the country’s very first night market. There is a strong connection to all international trends, and rich cultural features are preserved by combining the underground street of the Longshan Temple and Dali Street for Accessories. In addition to its historical atmosphere many interesting and fun events are often organized to attract public attention.
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By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The Taipei International Design Award takes Taipei City as the convergence platform for creative design to discover creative designs with business opportunity’s potentials. This award makes use of the idea of a universal design to improve the city’s economy, community, environment and cultural development. It provides the user with a more harmonious, safer and convenient life. In addition to the design competition, it also holds design forums, design seminars, and other important design activities. Furthermore, it also holds a creative start-ups int’l exchange program to select excellent enterprises and provide a completely different assistance and resources package in order to create a good-quality eco-environment for start-up businesses so that the startups in Taipei City may have a chance to be displayed on the international stage.
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By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The Taipei City Government connects the idea of “design” with technology industry domain and establishes the “Taipei Co-Space” inside the public service building of the Neihu Science Park to provide a co-working space for micro-enterprise’s entrepreneurs or freelance workers. People who work in-house may discuss, do brainstorming and collaborate by exchanging ideas together via this built platform. They can create innovative commercial thoughts or boosts new business models to create endless business opportunities.
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By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
For a startup team, it definitely helps boost operating capital, connections and required technology in the industry and the market share by being able to establish presence in an internationally famous accelerator or to taking part in international entrepreneurship competition where they can exchange experiences and share stories with other elites from around the world. The Taipei City Government’s Department of Economic Development has launched” Taipei City Government Start-up Programs for Subsidy entrepreneurial team abroad” to encourage startup teams to broaden their international horizon, strengthen their connections with the world in terms of funding, talent, and technology.Venture teams with potential that are registered in Taipei are sponsored while they try to establish presence in international accelerators, take part in international venture events, or incubation center development plans.
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By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The Taipei City startup platform “StartUP@Taipei” was officially launched on March 2015. This well-integrated platform not only compiles entrepreneurial data from all fronts, but also gathers all 48 centralized startup-related resources, providing entrepreneurs a one-stop consulting service. Aside from this, it has established the “Taipei Angel’s Club”, a startup-planning instructor guidance team, mix-generational startup brainstorming meetings, 2015 Star of Tomorrow’s startup competition. It will encourage more positive energy for creativity and entrepreneurial spirit through the efforts of the Taipei City Government.
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By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
In March 2015, “living lab @ Taipei” was established by the Taipei City Government, this is a innovative experiment that uses Taipei as an environment for gathering all innovation and possibilities by entrepreneurs. It contains many rich and creative ideas, including: Gogoro smartscooter, artistic air pumps, environmental improvement experiments from National Taipei University of Technology, as well as FabLab Taipei’s desire to transform the bottle-cap factories into “Innovator Factories”, etc. Not only can this innovation turn public service quality improvement into reality, but also guide innovative industries to increase productivity, thus spurring metropolitan economic development.
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By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The Central Government and Taipei City Government provides the most abundant and whole startup consultation and environment, solving the problem of today’s youth running into startup obstacles such as the lack of space and resources. With the introduction of resources such as the Yuanshan Expo Park’s Innovation Arena, Youth Entrepreneurial Dream Web, Jinhwa Youth-Innovation Base, and Taipei Youth Career Developmental Center, etc. With assistance in every aspect, we may allow young people to accomplish their startup dreams, and further stimulate economic flow and industrial development.
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By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
The torch of the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade Fair was lit up in its place of origin Paris, France. After that, people passed on the torch to Taipei City, and a torch cruise began in the surroundings of the city government hall and Taipei 101. Taipei City Mayor Wen-je Ko was the representative to welcome the troop leader of the Universiade Torch Troop Bing-wan Zhao. Since all activities of the 2017 Taipei Summer Universiade kept commencing, this international fair had carried the main engine of this program of a “four year great leap” for Taipei City on its shoulders. Many expect that Taiwan can establish friendship with every country through this great sports event to promote the spirit for national sports, to promote city reconstruction, citizen participation and cultural elevation. Furthermore, it may increase international visibility for Taiwan and Taipei City through international sports exchange and skills competition to motivate the glamor of Taipei city so that more people can know Taipei is a place to be proud of in Taiwan!
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By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
The Taipei government has created a business-friendly environment for social enterprises to grow and promoted sustainable growth within a social enterprise. Since 2014, the government began to promote some projects relevant to this goal. It enlarged the number of enterprises involved in receiving instructions from the government since 2015, promoting the campaign known as “SMEs brand expanding project-giving instructions to build a brand image for social enterprises through promotions”. The government continued to run a "project to promote services for the social enterprises located in Taipei City" in 2016. It is estimated that over 20 local social enterprises have received instructions on a case-by-case basis. Besides, the government helped the citizens to get to know more about how the social enterprise develops into a national and global business through a series of campaigns.
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By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
The e-Commerce craze continues to spread across the world. Many traditional industries have started to explore sales channels for its e-Commerce more actively. In this journal, plenty of successful cases that received the “incentive and subsidy plan for industrial development in Taipei City” may include “Türk Kızları”. Such case puts in a lot of effort in its e-Commerce platform service and product improvement for its content through project implementation. “Türk Kızları” cultivates designers to design cultural and creative products, offers internship opportunities and employability for students from the Department of Turkish, and expects them to become e-Commerce leaders in Turkey. It offers extensive and in-depth content information for the consumers to read. A second case is “Mr. Good”. It connects farmers and fishermen, processing factories, restaurants, cooking studios and consumers to come up with a R&D plan so that it can comply with the feature of quality agriculture and support the production of sustainable agriculture as well as the industrial value chain for manufacturing and marketing. It helps the farmers and fishermen who are less familiar with the production and marketing end to do the processing and packaging work and sell their agricultural products. It sets up an exclusive procedure to handle perishable foods, shortening the route from the place of origin to the dining table. It increases the value of agricultural products for its added value.