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match-making event to support the startup community, assist startups with securing funding, and help startups Right Moment
and Taiwanese companies to adopt cloud technology and speed up digital transformation. The first AWS
Local Zone outside the United States was launched in Taipei in June 2022. AWS Local Zones can achieve
millisecond-level low-latency performance at the edge of the cloud.
• Cisco established a demonstration center for smart city applications and solutions in Qingpu, Taoyuan in
November 2019; joined forces with Taiwanese businesses to create the first experimental 5G open network
platform in Taiwan in August 2020; and established the Cisco DevNet information security training center
in the Linkou Startup Terrace in March 2021 to cultivate international information security talent and foster
information security startups. Cisco most recently launched its Taiwan Digital Acceleration Plan 2.0 in 2023 to
enhance Taiwan's global software and hardware power and competitive advantages in the five major aspects
of information security, smart cities, and transportation.
• Qualcomm set up the Qualcomm Innovation Center in Yawan Startup Terrace's 5G AIoT Innovation Park in
Kaohsiung in September 2022. The center facilitates connections with local innovation talent and provides
consulting services on technologies, business models and intellectual property. Qualcomm also established
dedicated network areas for 5G testing and R&D to facilitate the landing of local and innovative applications of 5G.
Smart Machinery
Policy Focus
The government will develop core and application technologies through the Smart Machinery Industry Promotion
Program by connecting local, future, and international trends and integrating upstream, midstream, and
downstream industries to encourage big businesses to switch to smart manufacturing processes. This will spur
large-sized enterprises to enter into smart manufacturing and drive industrial diffusion. It will also guide small
and medium-sized enterprises to improve their digital capabilities, promote industrial upgrading, establish flexible
manufacturing, thereby boosting output growth and expanding international markets.
The establishment of smart robotics innovative maker sites by the Central Taiwan Science Park and Tainan
Science Park has fostered the emergence of many startups and training of specialized R&D manpower.
The "Smart Machinery Industry Promotion Program" passed by the Executive Yuan combines the strengths of
the machinery and ICT industries for the purpose of developing smart machinery applications and solutions. The
program has begun implementing numerous policy measures geared to accelerating the development of a smart
machinery industry:
• Establishment of a "smart machinery promotion office" in charge of integrating and coordinating interagency
resources in order to reap gains from cooperation and synergy.
• Improve the smart technology capabilities of SMEs and assist manufacturers and supply chains in digital
transformation; assist equipment manufacturers to develop equipment or production lines with smart
technology functions to promote the export of smart technology machinery or production lines internationally
and position themselves in high-end application markets in Europe, the U.S. and Japan, and expand the mid-
range application markets in New Southbound countries.
• A smart machinery industry park in Fengzhou, Taichung is a manufacturing site for smart machinery products.
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