Once the new normal after the pandemic makes governments around the world formulate public health strategies fighting the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), improving the efficiency of rapid screening and developing virus suppression products become the core issues of Taiwan's biomedical and technology industries exploring new opportunities under the new normal. GLORIA promoted by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) brings together various rapid screening and virus suppression technologies developed by Taiwan's academia, and there are several results from schools such as NCKU, NSYSU, KMU, CMU and CGU, which have been transferred to Taiwan's companies, further accelerating the exploration for new business opportunities at home and abroad by Taiwan's biomedical and technology industries. Debut of Global Research & Industry Alliance, GLORIA Reinforcing Regional and Interschool Industry-Academia Collaboration The Ministry of Science and Technology started promoting the Global Research & Industry Alliance (GLORIA) in 2017, and has collaborated with industry liaison experts who have industry and venture capital backgrounds to promote academia-industry collaboration and technology transfer with an operational mindset to help academia promote technology, find partnerships and engage in negotiations. It is hoped that the resources from the industry can be incorporated into academia to facilitate collaboration and promote the domestic academic researches and industries to connect with the world. This year (2021), the former Global Research & Industry Alliance (GLORIA) will integrate relevant industry-academia resources and interschool capacity, and transform itself into " GLORIA 2.0 " to enhance the benefits of regional and interschool industry-academia resources, patents planning and utilization, making industry-academia research and development more focused and effectively consolidating platform resources. About Ten Rapid Screening Technologies and Services Unveiled Effectively Enhancing Taiwan's Pandemic Control Capacity Rapid screening technology is the key to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The real-time and efficient rapid screening technology can help relevant units find out who may be infected, block the spread of the virus, and enable the society and enterprises to maintain normal functions under the impact of the pandemic. About ten rapid screening technologies and services have been launched on GLORIA, and several of them have completed technology transfer process, creating new opportunities of pandemic control for many Taiwanese companies. "GLORIA 2.0 SOUTH" corporate member Eternal Materials Co., Ltd. has expanded from the field of synthetic resin to in vitro diagnostics. In addition to in-house R&D, it actively find technical partners through the platform to focus on the development of rapid screening for virus and nucleic acid detection technologies. Leadgene Bio, a startup extended from NCKU, completed its development of rapid screening materials in 2020, and has attracted the attention of businesses around the world, becoming a leader in testing reagent materials in Taiwan. FJU and Fu Jen Catholic University Hospital of the National Tsing Hua University Scientific Research Industrialization Platform of Five Universities Alliance collaborated on the launch of corporate quick screening services. The services compile and register employees or migrant workers, conduct rapid screening, report the results and positive cases through text messages the following day, and arrange the subsequent PCR tests. The solution is now serving Fubon Group, Yuanta Financial Holdings, Advantech, Kindom Construction and other businesses. The team of Professor Wen-Liang Chen from NYCU of the New Industries Alliance developed a quantitative electronic chip rapid screening platform which can complete the rapid screening of novel coronavirus under 5 minutes, and then determine the current phase of infection based on the data of antibodies, antigens, and nucleic acids. The platform has acquired TFDA, CE and Thailand FDA certifications. NSYSU of Southern Taiwan Gloria has introduced an ultra-sensitive COVID-19 lgM antibody rapid screening technology. Only a drop of blood is needed to quickly screen out early infections without obvious symptoms under 15 minutes, so that quarantine and treatment can given as soon as possible. KMU has developed a fully automatic rapid screening reagent for novel coronavirus. Adding samples from patients to the reagents, and the test results can be analyzed through fully automated instruments, which can quickly perform screening in large quantities at low cost. KMU at the same time has launched fixed-temperature chemical nucleic acid detection technology. It is the first fixed-temperature nucleic acid detection medical material approved by the Ministry of Health and Welfare for project manufacturing in Taiwan. The detection process does not require temperature control, and the detection time is only a quarter of the traditional method, while offering high accuracy. On the Global Industry Platform (GIP) of NTU System (T 4 GIP), NTU collaborates with businesses to provide biotechnology, big data and AI technologies focusing on the novel coronavirus activity, advanced vaccines, development of rapid screening reagent and field validation. CGU's Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections has developed a novel coronavirus neutralizing antibody titer assay kit. After the binding of neutralizing antibody and specific protein for 1.5 hours, the kit can quickly and accurately identify whether there are virus-inhibiting neutralizing antibodies inside the body. The technology has been transferred to Formosa Biomedical Technology Corporation. At the Taiwan Gloria Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital has collaborated with the Industrial Technology Research Institute, Radica Health, Tranwo Technology, Microsoft Taiwan, Acer ACEB and other industry-academia collaboration teams to launch the "Contactless pandemic control technology platform". It can automatically measure, compile, and interpret patients' data, and issue immediate warning messages if there is an abnormality. The platform offers real-time videoconferencing interactions to reduce contacts between people, further protecting the front-line medical personnel. GLORIA Providing Key Viral Suppression Technologies and Function Validation Services Governments around the world believe that coexistence with the novel coronavirus may be the next necessary direction to be taken, which also simultaneously drives the demand for virus suppression products from companies, government agencies and the general public. As long as the virus can be effectively prevented from spreading through daily necessities, people can reduce their risks of infection caused by viruses hidden in the environment. As a results, the Platform provides key viral suppression technologies and function validation services developed by academia, accelerating companies' progress in developing anti-virus products. The team of Professor Dean-Mo Liu from NYCU of the New Industries Alliance has developed the "Biogel antivirus nano coating technology" which can be applied to masks for viral suppression and killing of viruses. NYCU also has established one of the only two research centers for epidemic prevention in Taiwan. It consolidates the efforts of Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang Ming University Hospital and Taoyuan Hospital of the Ministry of Health and Welfare and collaborates with domestic companies such as Medigen, Acer, Formosa Laboratories and SyneuRx on reagents, drugs, vaccines, regulations and smart medical care. It also provides research and development services for clinical and pathological, medicine and prevention, testing and quarantine, public health and epidemics, psychology, social, and international collaboration fields. NSYSU of Southern Taiwan GLORIA has launched a nano-shield pandemic control spray. The spray can be suspended in the air for up to two hours and bind with the novel coronavirus to cause it to settle. It can bind with 40% to 60% of novel coronavirus in the air within 30 minutes, further reducing the risk of virus transmission. The Pseudovirus-SARS-CoV-2 cell infection test confirmed that the efficiency of inhibiting the virus infecting cells can reach 67.8%. It has been confirmed that it does not cause inhalation toxicity, skin irritation, and eye irritation. On the Taoyuan-Taichung Scientific Research & Industrialization Platform Project, Principal and fellow Mien-Chie Hung of China Medical University used a newly constructed molecular cell rapid screening platform to find inhibitors that can fight Alpha variant (UK variant) and Beta variant (South Africa variant) through the Chinese Pharmacopoeia and natural products. The Research and Development Center for Membrane Technology of Chung Yuan Christian University has collaborated with a biotechnology company to develop a nanofiber collector that can efficiently capture viruses to improve sampling efficiency and detection sensitivity. Professor Yi-Ning Chen of the Department of Bioscience Technology at Chung Yuan Christian University has helped a technology company develop performance validation of COVID-19 viral suppression materials. On GLORIA 2.0 SOUTH, Meet Tec, a startup extended from NCKU, used a single coating technology to enhance the electrostatic filtration performance to inhibit the proliferation of bacteria and viruses and prevent blood penetration, which can be applied to products related to pandemic control. On the Global Industry Platform (GIP) of NTU System (T 4 GIP), CGU's Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections has helped Formosa Biomedical Technology Corporation test antibacterial spray. The experimental results confirmed that its performance inhibiting the novel coronavirus exceeded 99.99%. GLORIA Quickly Providing R&D Technologies Developed by Academia The Platform promoted by the Ministry of Science and Technology brings together various technologies developed by Taiwan's academia.

In order to promote international ties, Taiwan Gloria Center and the Northern California Chapter of the Global Federation of Chinese Business Women held the “Overseas Chinese Industry and Academia Partnership Project – Discussing Developments in Smart Agriculture” on August 23, 2021. Members of this center’s smart agriculture team including National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), National Chiayi University (NCYU), Tunghai University (THU), and international member JH Biotech shared their findings in smart agriculture, methods for industry academia partnerships that can enhance corporate capabilities, and introduced the services of Taiwan Gloria Center. The online event included guests such as Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC) Minister Chen-Yuan Tung Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco Deputy Director General Ying-Hsing Lee Culture Center of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco (Milpitas) Director Shu-Jung Yen MoEA Director Ai-Lan Chen National Chung Hsing University President Fuh-Sheng Shieu Global Federation of Chinese Business Women Chairwoman Sherry Chen, Vice Chairwoman Karen Chen, Northern California Chapter Director Wei-Ni Hu World Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce Honorary President Kuei-Hsiang Lin Taiwanese Chambers of Commerce of North America Honorary President Yi-Ming Wu and more for a total of  more than 70 guests in attendance. Taiwan Gloria Center has been actively forging international ties by utilizing strategies such as platform-to-platform partnerships to synergize the benefits of international ties by forging deeper relationships that expand the mutual benefits of collaboration. By utilizing an inter-university research platform to collaborate and consolidate R&D technologies in the upstream, midstream, and downstream, the center hopes to provide companies across the world with new service and establish Taiwan as the center of smart industries in addition to increasing industrial economic benefits. While this event is opening with smart agriculture, future matchmaking events will be in place for smart healthcare and smart industries to establish an interactive platform where overseas Taiwanese businesses across the world can regularly synergize and create valuable industry and academia partnerships. Taiwan Gloria Center has spared no effort to promote international ties with overseas Taiwanese businesses. Since March, the center has received visitors from 50 overseas Taiwanese businesses who visited the campus and research center at National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT); in July, NTUT, Taipei Medical University (TMU), and NCHU participated in the “Overseas Taiwanese Businesses Identifying Opportunities in Taiwan” event hosted by OCAC to forge business opportunities for overseas Taiwanese businesses across the world; the event attracted 481 online participants across the 3 universities. Taiwan Gloria Center will continue to strive towards an increased presence and interacting with overseas Taiwanese businesses globally. While the current event is focused on Northern California, future matchmaking events will be held across the world using regional themes to establish industry-academia partnerships as well as technology transfers.

The 2020 NCKU Dream-Come-True Carnival Startup Week was held at the NCKU Future Venue and the square in front of the Venue on November 6th and 7th.  The two-day event focused on technology matchmaking and the entrepreneurship ecosystem.  Representatives from various enterprises were invited to attend the industry-academia forum to kick off the event, and founders of startups shared their experience learned in their entrepreneurship journey.  The event had 80 technology and startup teams from NCKU to showcase the results and progress of their research and development efforts.   Deputy Minister Dar-Bin Shieh and Department Director Chun-Yi Tu of the Ministry of Science and Technology, special committee member Chien-Te Wu of the Economic Development Bureau of Tainan City Government, Principal Jenny Su of NCKU, Director Woei-Jer Chuang of the Innovation Headquarters and also the assistant principal of NCKU, Secretary-General Clark Su of Taiwan Angel Club and several enterprise representatives and valued guests attended the event.   Deputy Minister Dar-Bin Shieh of the MOST pointed out: "The spirit of innovation is an important driving force for the development of economy, technology, and society.  Its cultivation can further commercialize technologies and transform them into startups.  For the overall economy, innovation can promote socioeconomic metabolism.  For individuals, entrepreneurship is an opportunity for self-realization, and is also a stage for exerting one's true potential."   The NCKU Dream-Come-True Carnival Startup Week this year is the first large event held by the NCKU Innovation Headquarters since its official launch in August.  In addition to the announcement of results from startup teams conducted on the Demo Day, there is a display of technologies and matchmaking forums and presentation sessions over two days to showcase the results and progress of the technological research and development efforts of NCKU and startup teams.   Chair Professor Woei-Jer Chuang, director of the Innovation Headquarters and also the assistant principal of NCKU, said that in the past the NCKU Startup Week was mainly to promote the startups developed by both professors and students.  The Startup Week this time, hopes to create more collaboration opportunities with enterprises in addition to promoting startups.  Many alumni are also invited to the homecoming event held during the university anniversary to make NCKU's efforts in technology and startups known to every corner of Taiwan. 　 Chair Professor Woei-Jer Chuang said that back in the day, Taiwan's education system did not emphasize encouraging professors and students to explore opportunities in startups. The newly consolidated Innovation Headquarters will focus on this initiative, which is also the direction that NCKU should take in the future.   The previous Startup Week events at NCKU all presented results in conjunction with the Dream-Come-True program at school.  The program has been in operation for three years and helped eight teams establish their startups.  This year, the program has nurtured three teams to form their startups.  For example, the Sumoga team, which develops games on environmental education, has completed the first stage of game development with the grant from the Dream-Come-True program and connected with the U-Start Plan for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Ministry of Education to establish its gaming software company, Educality. The founder of Sumoga is Juliana Kriskova from Slovakia.  She said that back then, she formed the team of Sumoga based on being a sustainable movement game, which aimed to develop interactive games on environmental education to convey environmental protection.  The games target school-age children from 9 to 12 years old, and the company seeks to incorporate the games into schools' teaching systems. She said that the team could complete the first stage of game development with the grant from the Dream-Come-True program at NCKU before getting connected with the U-Start Plan for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Ministry of Education to establish its gaming software company, Educality.  This is also the first time in three years since the establishment of the Dream-Come-True program that a team is headed by a foreign student who later on establishes a startup at NCKU. On the first day of the Dream-Come-True Carnival Startup Week, Assistant General Manager Sunny Li of the ASE Technology, Director Chih-Wei Chang of the R&D center of CPDC and Assistant General Manager Yong-Qing Shen of Nan Pao Resins Chemical were invited to the industry-academia forum to share their opinions on the topic of "Key Success Factors to Industry-Academia Collaboration."  The event venue also featured technologies showcased by teams and a matchmaking forum with industry practitioners, and more than 40 technology teams from NCKU participated attended the event.   The Demo Day event on the next day focused on the activities of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Southern Taiwan.  Entrepreneurs such as Ronald Yu of Autopass, Roy Chang of uMeal and others shared their journey of entrepreneurship at the event.  About 50 startups, either still in-campus or are spinoffs of NCKU, also organized an exhibition featuring fun activities to interact with the guests and other teams at the site.

To enhance Taiwan's PCB manufacturing technology and talent cultivation advantages, Yuan Zhe University and Zhen Ding Technology, Taiwan's leading PCB vendor, jointly established the " Zhen Ding Technology – Yuan Ze University Big Data Research Center".  On April 8, both sides signed the " Agreement of Research Center Cooperation" and held the opening ceremony. Zhen Ding Technology Group will invest at least NT$30 million in 5 years, which will not only promote bilateral industry-university cooperation, but also bring the synergies to improve Taiwan's PCB industry toward a higher level of smart manufacturing. The Innovation Center for Big Data and Digital Convergence of Yuan Ze University has worked with Zhen Ding Technology Holding Limited (ZDT ) to establish the platform of big data and smart manufacture since 2018, and the team members are including professors from Department of Industrial Engineering and Management. The project cooperation, educational training, talents development and enhancing ZDT competitiveness on production industry are conducted through this platform. It also helps YZU students connect industrial practice for understanding the industry earlier, reducing the gap between learning and applying, and enhancing the employment competitiveness. Yuan Zhe University and Zhen Ding Technology ,both sides signed the " Agreement of Research Center Cooperation  

With the support of the project, the platform for scientific research achievements in industrialization held by Ministry of Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) established five college consortium. Today (January 27, 2021), NTHU signed a letter of intent with National Chengchi University (NCCU) , Fu Jen Catholic University (FJU) , Feng Chia University (FCU) , and Tamkang University (TKU) . By integrating five colleges’ complementary specialization fields, forming a key technical team, and promoting industry demand-oriented industry-academia cooperation, domestic enterprises and academia can jointly invest in forward-looking technology research and development; promote different forms of thematic industry-academia cooperation to facilitate scientific research achievements in industrialization and further expand substantive exchanges of research and teaching between universities. Principal He Chen of our school said that many Chinese auspicious words begin with "five," for example, the five blessings will have descended upon the house and the family will be prosperous for five generations right on end. The plum blossoms in Dr. Mei Memorial Garden are mostly five petals. Connecting five schools will surely achieve great results. Professor Ming-Hua Hsieh from the Department of Risk Management and Insurance (NCCU) said that, the industry-academia cooperation between NCCU and the financial industry has been established for several years, so they can provide experience in financial business management cooperation. He also said that NTHU has strong R&D development and hoped that joining the consortium can promote technological exchanges and enhance the technological R&D capacity of NCCU. Ben-Chang Hsieh, Vice President of FJU , described himself as the force of industry-academia cooperation. By learning from the model consortiums, FJU can strengthen its industry-academia and international linkage energy and give feedback to the platform. Bing-Jean Lee, President of FCU , stated that FCU is dedicated to strategic core industries, for instance, national defense and the people's livelihood. They can become a niche point to introduce technical resources for college consortium and to connect local enterprises, which can prosper the industrial capacity of the central region. Chii-Dong Ho, Vice President of TKU , uses 270,000 TKU alumni as one of the strong backup of the consortium platform, connects abundant industry contacts and skills, transforms them into substantial industry-academia cooperation, and leads the industry. Tsing Hua Five College Consortium will devote itself to strategic service projects, for example, the creation of industry-academia cases, the maintenance and promotion of technology transfer patents, the cultivation of high-level talents, and the fundraising of start-up teams, so as to increase the benefits of industry-academia services for five colleges and to establish a network and system. The community then can share resources and make the best use of the material to link with the world and finally reach the goal of sustainable operation. ▲The Five College Consortium led by NTHU was established under the support of the MOST Program on Platforms Platform for Industrialization of Scientific Research Achievements. On 27th, NTHU signed a letter of intent with National Chengchi University, Fu Jen Catholic University, Feng Chia University and Tamkang University ▲Photo after signing ceremony of the Five College Consortium

In order to understand the trends and differences in financial technology between Taiwan and the world, as well as the perspectives and strategies of financial companies, and to propose corresponding solutions for industry development, National Chengchi University (NCCU) and Deloitte jointly published the "2021 Trends and Future Prospects of Taiwan FinTech Report" on April 20, in which experts from the financial industry were invited to discuss and share their experiences.   The FinTech Research Center at NCCU has been dedicated to trend analysis in financial technology over the years. NCCU has published, in collaboration with Deloitte, the "2021 Trends and Future Prospects of Taiwan FinTech Report", the first report of its kind in Taiwan. To secure a deeper understanding of the current situation and the issues in Taiwan's financial technology, NCCU and Deloitte conducted in-depth interviews with 10 financial institutions, compiled information on the industry's level of preparation in FinTech and the potential challenges, and provided industry transformation strategy and policy advices, by referring to the international development experience in FinTech worldwide. Professor Wang Lee-ling, Director of the FinTech Research Center at NCCU, pointed out that when it comes to the application of important financial technologies, Taiwan’s current focus is on AI, the Cloud, identity verification, etc. Open banking and data sharing can be beneficial to financial institutions’ potential for cross-company and cross-industry development. Therefore, the industry is hopeful for a major breakthrough in terms of regulation for data sharing, Cloud services and Regtech. In addition, this Report also provided 10 recommendations for Taiwan's future regulation development, in accordance to future trends, these recommendations include, creating a data empowerment mechanism to facilitate data sharing, establishing data exchange centers and “de-identification” standards for personal data, enhancing data governance to promote a cross-industry data sharing platform, establishing a dedicated API management unit and TSP mechanism for open banking, taking inspiration from international legislation and prescribe new regulations for Big Data and AI in order to facilitate innovation, encouraging the industry to embrace new techniques and create new value, implementing new technologies to improve Regtech compliance, accelerating the robustness of support measures for Cloud environments, expanding the financial industry's application scope for pilot programs so as to boost FinTech innovations, and creating a prosperous academia-industry collaboration platform to cultivate FinTech talent. It is expected that all sectors will work together to drive innovation under the FSC's policies, and create a new ecosystem for Taiwan's FinTech.   The development of Taiwan's FinTech will face more digital transformation challenges in the post-pandemic era, according to Director Wang Lee-ling, and driven by the FSC's policies, Taiwan's FinTech is expected to continue its growth. Currently, there is a supply deficiency in skilled labor as the demand for FinTech personnel in Taiwan increased rapidly. Chengchi University expects that by actively promoting innovative R&D and educational platforms together with Deloitte, combining industry experience with top class academic research, new FinTech industrial values and employment opportunities are created to cultivate international competitive financial services and innovative talent for Taiwan.