“FUTEX 2019” was held by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and it served as the matching platform facilitating the most projects in linking scientific research and industrial need. After 4 days of exhibition, FUTEX came to an end on Dec. 8th, with the perfect ending of Minister of Science and Technology Chen, Liang-Gee giving out the awards of “Future technology breakthroughs” and “Most popular technologies” in the awards ceremony. During the exhibition days, the most severe cold wave in this Winter swapped Taipei, however it did not stop enthusiastic people from the industry as well as the general public from visiting the exhibition; it ended up attracting 102,700 visits and making possible over 7,000 matching events, and both are record-breaking numbers. It is estimated that the effect in industry-academic matching after the exhibition will reach  NT$ 1 billion.   Taiwan’s stunning power in scientific research was shown in 11 exhibition areas with over 7,000 matching events attracting international attention   Fruitful result was reflected in this year’s FUTEX; not only were people from different industries attracted by exhibition contents as they came to visit in groups, but international groups from United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Israel, Russia, Czech Republic, India, Vietnam, Brazil, Luxenberg, Belgium, Singapore, Eswatini, Finland, Australia, the Philippines, and Japan also came to visit and attended guided tour, witnessing the new technology trends that will lead the way in the next decade.   The popular exhibition area of “Precision Sports” was a first in FUTEX; VR facilities in baseball, table tennis, badminton, weightlifting and taekwondo were set up here, along with scientific results from numerous colleges including “Baseball Finger Force Sensing Wireless Transmission Device with Time-series Big Data Analysis System” from Yuan Ze University, “Sport Training System” from National Taiwan University of Sport, and “Next Precision Weightlifting Platform” from University of Taipei, displaying power in precise movement combining technology. The exhibition area of “Space technology” also attracted lots of attention; the “Compact Ionospheric Probe” launched by Associate Professor Chi-Kuang Chao from National Central University received numerous inquiries from foreign guests on the first day, due to its smallest mass in the world of 400 grams. The exhibition area of “Semiconductor Moonshot” witnessed presentations in new technology by scientific research teams every day. A team from Kaohsiung Medical University launched “An integrated system of AI affective computing and multimodal physiological signals in patients with high-risk of cardiovascular disorder”, and they also set up a system of “AI psychologist: reading your mind in 30 seconds”, with which visitors can wear the gadget on their head, and then 8 brainwaves from frontal lobe and temporal lobe would be sent to the computer for it to detect the users’ current emotional signals such as angriness, sadness and happiness, and it attracted many visitors to wait in line for this experience.   In the exhibition area of “Medical device”, the sections of “The development of smart contact lens system: Taking dry eye syndrome diagnosis as an example” and “The first Taiwanese human lung-on-a-chip system” witnessed the most occasions in business talks, as both teams mentioned that the top-5 telecommunication companies in Taiwan all sent people to visit them for future cooperation in technology. The exhibition area of “Smart Agriculture” also witness frequent interactions between corporations and scientific research teams, for instance the “Application of Cyber-Physical Sensing (CPS) 3D stereo modeling” launched by National Chiao Tung University attracted lots of interests from the industry due to its ability to use spectrum to distinguish the fruit sweetness and moisture content for screening and grading; the team of “The plant beneficial endophytic agent for total solution of abiotic and biotic stresses” indicated that not only are Taiwanese companies interested in this, but companies from Singapore, the Philippines, Eswatini and Japanese agricultural associations also showed high interest, therefore further talks on cooperation will take place.   According to record, 70 plus professional groups attended guided tour during the 4 days of exhibition, receiving on-site explanation over hundreds of pieces of scientific technologies; well-known manufacturers including Pegatron, Acer, Powerchip, Teltec, Ginko and Innolux all came to visit, indicating that this year’s FUTEX included many works with potential to be commercialized, therefore gaining attention from the industry.   2700 persons attended the forums with heated interactions, and the “Most popular technologies” award served as the finale   During the exhibition, 30 distinguished industrial experts from USA, Finland, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, Australia and Taiwan were invited to speak in successive 9 forums that will ignite technological revolution, including “AIoT critical match point”, “Regenerative medicine: Stem cell”, “Quantum security”, “Aerospace Technologies” and “Taiwan’s next step on semiconductor”. Due to the forward-looking nature of these technology topics, all seats were occupied in all forums with over 2700 persons attending, and all those who could not attend in person watched the live broadcast through the FB fan page of the Ministry of Science and Technology.   The “Most popular technologies” award given as the last item on the award ceremony was the grand finale of the whole event, serving as the perfect ending of the four-day exhibition. 88 awards teams of the “Futuretech Breakthrough” award were selected by experts in numerous fields with multiple meetings, and their results with forward-looking and innovative technologies were displayed in FUTEX 2019; in addition, the organizer also used smart people-flow mining technology, matching and voting mechanisms to selected 10 awarded teams of the “Most popular technologies” award, which was given by Minister of Science and Technology Chen, Liang-Gee, aiming to affirm and encourage excellent technology teams’ outstanding performance during the exhibition. (Awarded teams are listed in appendix)   The Ministry of Science and Technology promised to pay continuous effort in matching three sides, in hope that university students can keep up the good work for future breakthroughs   FUTEX is gaining more and more enthusiastic response every year, and its scale is also getting bigger and bigger. During the award ceremony, Hngzyang na Matui & Nahuy Children's Choir from Jianshi Township in Hsinchu County, who won the highest award as well as the special prize in this year’s International Franz. Schubert Choir Competition, performed with their celestial voice, bringing warmness and power to technology. Minister Chen, believes that a platform like this not only can promote these forward-looking technologies and gain instant feedback with physical application in the industry, but it can also help research results to match industrial needs in a sooner fashion, so as to seek the blue sea market with high value added together with corporations. The role and responsibility of the Ministry of Science and Technology is not only just to assist the technology industry to cater to international market, but also at the same time to make these important technology developments well-known to the public. From 2017 to this year, all selected technologies in three FUTEX exhibitions all possess the potential in disruptive innovation, therefore it is believed that they all have the opportunity to become the game-changing weapon that will lead Taiwan into a better future in the next decade. Appendix: List of awarded teams of “Most popular technologies” award No. Launching organization Technology 1 Kaohsiung Medical University, National Chung Cheng University National Chiao Tung University An integrated system of AI affective computing and multimodal physiological signals in patients with high-risk of cardiovascular disorder 2 Taipei Medical University Ted-ICU AI Platform 3 National Yang Ming University Web-based Diagnostic System for Assessing Psychiatric Disorders 4 Nation Chung Hsing University Real-time identification of crop losses using UAV imagery 5 National Space Organization Ultrahigh Bit-rate Lightweight X-band Communication System 6 National Tsing Hua University Development and Integration of MEMS environment sensors towards smart and more-than-Moore era 7 National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction An Early Warning System for Flash Floods in Mountainous Areas 8 Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan Development of fruit tree industry monitoring technology based on multi-source image recognition technology 9 National Chiao Tung University New Era of Personalized Medicine - the First Taiwanese Human Lung-on-a-chip System 10 National Chiao Tung University The Development of Smart Contact Lens System: Taking Dry Eye Syndrome Diagnosis as an Example   ■For more Futex information, please find us on LINE at @futex

GLORIA partnership Fair in US east coast was so successful that local companies were quite exited and actively invited GLOIRA deepen deployement in local industry Fong-Chin Su, Executive Vice President of National Cheng Kung University, Former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of Taiwan, led Global Research & Industry Alliance (GLORIA) delegation to USA from October 21 to 25. The delegation consisted of university alliances: National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), National Yang-Ming University (NYMU), National Central University (NCU), National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei Medical University (TMU), National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), and National Chengchi University (NCCU). Assisted by Science and Technology Divisions, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston and San Francisco, GLORIA visited world leading organizations including IBM Watson Research Center, MIT, and UC Berkeley. Through networking with more than one hundred local industries, furthermore, GLORIA held respectively a business partnering fair in Boston and Silicon Valley, the world’s topmost clusters of biotechnology, high-tech, and startups. This partnering fair successfully promoted 298 rounds of business discussions, signed eight contracts of university-industry innovative cooperation, and attracted businesses more than 200 million USD. GLORIA was successfully recognized by global market!   Providing advanced technology and innovative services, GLORIA proactively creates values for members, promotes international cooperation on innovation and business, and therefore receives great appreciation from remarkable international companies, including, on October 23 mainly at Boston, IBM achieving consensus with GLORIA on clinic research data, financial data, and healthcare data cooperation; world-class venture company EGI Capital signing MOU with National Cheng Kung University; Cambridge Blockchain (the first blockchain company invested by PayPal the leading global payment enterprise) and Gamma Paradigm Capital (the excess return company receiving Morgan Stanley Award for Excellence), respectively signing diamond member contract and MOU with National Chengchi University; KANG Healthcare, the world’s first Chinese Medicine digital diagnosis company, signing MOU with Taipei Medical University; and on October 25 at Silicon Valley, the leader in enterprise software company SAP signing LOI with National Cheng Kung University; and cutting-edge startup companies MedicusTek, Apeximmune, AiCare respectively signing MOU with Taipei Medical University.   GLORIA has been initiated and promoted by MOST of Taiwan since September 2017. Twenty alliances has been established covering advanced technology fields of Semiconductor, Artificial Intelligence, Finance Technology, Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, Smart Machinery, Intelligent Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Intelligent Education. Nowadays, there are 300 well-known companies participating as GLORIA members, 2,645 cases of university-industry cooperation and technology transfer, and more than 56 million USD industry funding towards universities.   After achieving great successes in Boston and Silicon Valley, MOST will continually facilitate innovative partnership between GLORIA and the world’s leading  organizations and companies, including collaborating with Chinese Biotechnology Association to connect US west coast biotechnology industry for strengthening GLORIA’s core competence on international deployment and benefiting both academia and industry. GLORIA Partnership Fair in US west coast promoted 4 cases of international university-industry cooperation and partnered with strategic companies for expanding GLORIA market in US west coast. (from left: Medicus Tek co-founder C. Jason Wang, Apeximmune Therapeutics CEO Li-Fen Lee, TMU Vice President Chieh-Hsi Wu, Section Chief Department of Academia-Industry Collaboration and Science Park Affairs of Ministry of Science and Technology Hua-Wei Hsu, Former Deputy Minister of MOST Fong-Chin Su、Director of Science and Technology Division of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco Chih-Cheng Yeh, SAP Head of Strategic Business Unit Richard Chen, AiCare CEO Sean Tan)  

The Ministry of Science and Technology has been since 2017 promoting the Global Research & Industry Alliance (GLORIA) program, expecting to build an Academia-Industry-Research collaboration platform and allowing Taiwan's high-quality talents and scientific research capabilities to contribute to Taiwan's industrial development. GLORIA congregates the top domestic and overseas academia-industry cooperation groups with focus on forward-looking technologies to further complete the industry-academic cooperation incentive scheme by establishing industry liaison centers and expert employment systems.   GLORIA has created a lot of brilliant achievements ever since its establishment. A total of 20 domestic universities across north, central, and south of Taiwan covering 9 industrial domains have established alliances with GLORIA to serve more than 350 domestic and foreign corporate members, contributing to 3,639 cases of academia-industry cooperation and technology transfer, valued at more than NT$2,100 million. We believe that GLORIA has successfully unveiled a new model of domestic academia-industry cooperation.