臺北產經資訊網

By Chieh,Hung-nien/Lin,Yung-chu
The Smart Handheld Device (SHD) has become a trend. It is also a chance for information software vendors (ISV) and enterprises in other domains to add to the business opportunities generated by hardware vendors in the electronics industry. Its key point depends on the App on SHD that triggers the new next consumption revolution. Therefore, using this location based system (LBS) establishment on the city Wi-Fi value-added platform can allow future online or offline connections and interactions so that information and communication technology (ICT) can combine with commercial services to create more business opportunities and applications via a more convenient service model. If the future city can make use of this concept of cloud service and Internet of Things (IoT), it can effectively increase value added and new business opportunities. Furthermore, it can effectively reduce government expenditure and subsidy, and build a creative consumer-shopping model.

By Lin,Feng-cheng/Shen,Yang-ting/Fang,Yueh-min/Chou,Tien-ying
Smart city has a main core value based on its “humanity.” Its features include pervasive sensory feelings, ubiquitous interconnected features, thorough and comprehensive intelligence that actually works, and sustainable innovations based on human beings. Smart city can effectively plan and manage city resources, public services and various activities as well as its economic, social or environmental influence during the process of collecting, tracking, integrating, sharing and analyzing all city resource information. Furthermore, it can reinforce city competitiveness and attract talents and investments to help the economy to transform and realize a sustainable economic development for its city.

By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The Taipei International Design Award takes Taipei City as the convergence platform for creative design to discover creative designs with business opportunity’s potentials. This award makes use of the idea of a universal design to improve the city’s economy, community, environment and cultural development. It provides the user with a more harmonious, safer and convenient life. In addition to the design competition, it also holds design forums, design seminars, and other important design activities. Furthermore, it also holds a creative start-ups int’l exchange program to select excellent enterprises and provide a completely different assistance and resources package in order to create a good-quality eco-environment for start-up businesses so that the startups in Taipei City may have a chance to be displayed on the international stage.

By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The Taipei City Government connects the idea of “design” with technology industry domain and establishes the “Taipei Co-Space” inside the public service building of the Neihu Science Park to provide a co-working space for micro-enterprise’s entrepreneurs or freelance workers. People who work in-house may discuss, do brainstorming and collaborate by exchanging ideas together via this built platform. They can create innovative commercial thoughts or boosts new business models to create endless business opportunities.

By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The Taipei City Government actively plans to provide each civil service that connects with technology and i-City to become an important goal for civil construction. Through the implementation of the Taipei City i-City project, the government allows the information and communication industry to have a good testing ground as its backup force so that the citizens may enjoy the good results of intelligent service; in terms of education, the government provides the smarter education CooC-Cloud. Teachers and students can use the Taipei CooC-Cloud for smarter education anytime and anywhere only if they use the interface, which is easy to use. In terms of civil service, the government also provides the Taipei Civil Affairs-Cloud service, Taipei Service Cloud and the Taipei Card integrated service by combining the latest technology and information service so that its citizens can enjoy a more convenient life.

By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
The London Z/Yen British consulting company published a result from the latest 18th session “Global Financial Centres Index 18 (GFCI 18)” this September 2015. London won over New York and became the largest financial center around the world with a total score of 796 points; New York took the second place with a score of 788 points; HK took the 3rd place, and the successive 4-10th places were acquired by Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Zurich, Toronto, San Francisco, and Washington, respectively. As for Taipei City, its total score was 686 points, ranking the 26th around the world and the 10th in the Asia region. It presents a steady trend as the GFCI 17, which placed it ahead of Melbourne, Beijing and other Asian cities. Taipei City continues to maintain its localization and in-depth “Local Specialists” status, which shows that its financial center is specialized with its energy and development growing steadily. In the future, Taipei City shall be more active in connecting with the world and heading towards more diversified, professional financial centers in connection with international markets.

By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
In an issued “2015 Happy City Survey” hosted by the CommonWealth Magazine in September, 2015, Taipei City won the championship in a row as the happiest, cozy city with a 742.48 score, which exceeds other counties and cities. On top of that, Taipei City also won the championship in the 4-sub-item index comprising “economic capacity,” “environmental capacity,” “political capacity” and “culture & education capacity” for its overall performance.

By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
[Global Views Monthly] announced the result of a Survey on Overall Competitiveness” in July 2015. It showed Taipei to be yet again the champion amongst 19 cities and counties around Taiwan. Besides the overall leading performance, Taipei City is also ranked as the first in five aspects: “economy and employment”, “education and culture”, “environmental protection and environmental quality”, “medical care and health” and “local finance”.

By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
Mastercard Worldwide announced their newest “Global Destination Cities Index” report in June, 2015. For most cities, there has been stable growth of tourist numbers and consumption. The number of tourists is expected to increase to 38.29 million and 360 billion will be spent. The number of tourists to Taipei City is expected to increase to 6.55 million in 2015 to take the world’s 16th spot. Between 2009 and 2015, the compound growth rate reached 14.9%, and Taipei became the 7th fastest growing global city, surpassing both Tokyo and Hong Kong. Taipei is now regarded as having great growth potential as an Asian tourism destination.

By Chang,Sheng-lin
Few people would use the concept of “business district” to define the legendary city of Berkeley in California. However, the shops, the products, and the merchants, have all inherited an aura of Last Century democracy. This city, with a population of about 100,000 has safeguarded the values of the previous generation, as well as developing its own unique democratic brand. A successful business model needs to be screened and challenged by the market mechanism. To introduce a spirit of democracy, fairness, and justice into the [Cooperation-Sharing] management model, three aspects need to be given attention: 1. The provision of seed capital/angel capital. Relatively open opportunities of capital turnover need to be provided for startup and managerial teams as well as a flexible and open managerial model; 2. The joint promotion and marketing of a business network: Joint promotion platforms and events should be launched to introduce brands and companies as well as to allow locals and travelers to know the location of stores that have this spirit of democracy, fairness, and justice. 3. Studies of related business and marketing operations: Investigations should be conducted on the operation models of global and domestic businesses. The key factors and potential for the integration of democracy, fairness, and justice into the management model should be summarized and understood. Taipei City has been successfully positioned as a contemporary city and a happy cultural capital. Only with diverse perspectives and positions, can Taipei be said to have developed innovative [cooperation-sharing] businesses and to proudly interpret this as its contribution to civilization.