Taiwan needs to be prepared to face a challenging year in 2019. That’s one of several key messages from AmCham Taipei’s recently released Business Climate Survey. Notably fewer of our member executives – about 45% compared to 55% a year ago — expressed confidence in the economic outlook for the coming 12 months. Significantly, however,…
The Novartis motto – “Reimagining Medicine” – goes to the heart of the company’s deep commitment to developing innovative drugs to help fill the unmet needs of patients worldwide. The Swiss-based pharmaceutical multinational consistently ranks among the top companies investing in R&D, ensuring a constant pipeline of new and groundbreaking treatments. In 2017 the investment…
Award Winners Take on Aging Society Challenges Working under the motto “Science for a better life,” Bayer AG has been at the cutting edge of pharmaceutical and life science research and development for its entire history. Over its more than a century and a half in business, the German-based multinational has introduced some of the…
Corning is the world’s leading glass, fiber, and ceramics maker, producing an array of life changing innovations in advanced optics, communications networks, display glass, and the ultra-durable Gorilla Glass. But the innovation that most excites Daniel Tseng, President of Corning Display Technologies Taiwan (CDTT), and these days is a smartphone camera flash that enables selfies…
The major new development is creation of Taiwania Capital Management, a government-backed venture-capital operation. Among the seven industries targeted in the government’s “5+2 Industrial Innovation Program,” the one starting with the strongest foundation is smart machinery. Overall machinery production value this year could break the NT$1 trillion (about US$33 billion) mark for the first time,…
Computex, Taiwan’s premier trade show and one of the world’s largest computer technology exhibitions, celebrated its 37th anniversary this year. But when asked by a reporter at the closing press conference whether Computex is struggling to keep up with new upstart technology expos such as CES Asia in Shanghai and CommunicaAsia in Singapore, Walter Yeh,…
We live in an amazing time when technology is changing almost every aspect of our lives—at breathtaking speed. Advances in healthcare, education, communication, and productivity have increased life expectancy around the globe and helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into the middle class. For many, the ability to connect to…
The Tsai administration is making a heavy commitment of resources to promoting seven sectors of the economy as the key to transforming Taiwan’s industry. The initial five “pillar industries” were the Internet of Things (also referred to as Asia·Silicon Valley), Biomedical, Green Energy, Smart Machinery, and Defense. Added later were high-value agriculture and the circular…
Huang San-Kuei, Director-General of the National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) under the Ministry of Health and Welfare since 2013, is both a medical doctor (from Chung Shan Medical University) and holder of a Master’s degree in Hospital and Health Care Administration from National Yang-Ming University, where he continues to be an adjunct professor. He was…
As this year’s “World Design Capital,” Taipei aims to forge a new, forward-looking image. Designated the “2016 World Design Capital” by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID),Taipei has embarked on a comprehensive initiative to mark this year by instilling design elements into numerous aspects of urban life. “The WDC project aims…
