DuPont Taiwan Ltd., a subsidiary of the U.S.-based chemical giant, launched an innovation center at the Hsinchu Science Park June 29, to serve as a platform for research and development cooperation among industry, government and academia.
“With its outstanding industry, effective government administration, complete industrial chains and strengths in applying new innovations, Taiwan stood out among the possible locations for the center,” said Steve Chen, president and chairman of DuPont Taiwan.
“The purpose of the center is to utilize ‘inclusive innovation,’ which stresses international cooperation in finding solutions to global problems,” Chen explained. “At the same time, companies’ operations can continuously grow and transform.”
Shing Liou, chief technology officer at DuPont Taiwan, said the company is also establishing innovation centers in India, Thailand and South Korea this year, each with a different mission and focus of cooperation based on the respective country’s industrial strengths. The South Korean center opened June 28.
The innovation center in Taiwan, which is a leader in the information and communications technology industry, will at first focus on hand-held computer-communication-consumer devices, renewable energy materials and key electronics components and materials, according to Liu.
Chen said the new Taiwan innovation center would help boost services for DuPont’s customers, who can utilize any of the company’s 75 laboratories, as well as for other innovation centers. Through DuPont’s center, nearly 8,500 think tank scientists around the world will be able to jointly find solutions when they run into R&D-related problems.
