臺北產經資訊網

By Chen,Hui-mei
The Edible Landscape, as the name implies, is a landscape that provides food. When this kind of landscape is designed plants which provide edible crops, or which themselves are edible, are used in place of the traditional ornamental ones. Optimal use is made of plants which have functions that include environmental protection, spatial aesthetics, and most importantly, a supply of food. In cities where the edible landscape is promoted the residents are able to enjoy the fun of farming which includes planting and cultivation as well as final harvesting and the consumption of their own products. Urban farming life is no longer just a dream. With proper environmentally friendly methods residents can be introduced to the proper use of space, enjoy physical exercise, and have more control over their own health. This activity also makes a substantial contribution to social welfare, and helps to build a friendly urban living environment. In Taiwan development of the edible landscape is at an early stage and most focus is on crop cultivation. The spatial form is limited to traditional vegetable gardens. We hope that in the future there will be more emphasis placed on spatial design to create more aesthetic vegetable gardens. We believe that vertical farming and the symbolic relationship of fish farming and soil-less vegetable growth will also become important in the development of garden cities. Such enterprises will reduce production and transportation cost and ensure the security of urban food. Furthermore, when fish farming is taken into account, the concept can be expanded to include fish farm ponds in the edible landscape.

By Chiu,Ying-hao
“Urban farming” has become a platform for social network groups. It offers positive sustainability and LOHAS as well as aspects of social culture, the opportunity to build neighborhood relationships, environmental education, and technology transfer. The production and distribution of urban farming projects has become an important link between spatial strategic planning and urban industry policy. We need to give serious consideration to the reshaping of the metropolitan environment and devise spatial policies and means of use that match an ideal life style that will allow the development of a better collective consciousness. We propose that the integration of farming into daily urban life should start from the community to create a bottom up initiation mechanism to rebuild the environment. We need new consumption manners, and to re-build and reactivate the social network relationship to expand the urban metropolis and form synergy. These are many different ways in which this new vision of a garden city may be realized.

By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
To promote exceptional Taiwan agricultural products and increase the revenue of farms in Taipei the City Government actively promotes Farmers’ Market events at the Taipei Expo venue. This provides an excellent sales platform for featured agricultural products produced by small farmers around Taiwan. At the same time, this also provides an ideal site for recreational shopping. In addition to the sale products, education in agricultural practice is important. The “Small Garden Educational Project” is a call to schools and community colleges in 12 districts to participate in the fun of farming. This combines education and life experience to further realize this new vision of a garden city.

By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
Along with the launch of new Taipei City Government policy, much public space of has been released and converted into citizen community farms. Some farmers have even provided space for the organization of citizen farms. There are also farms on many city balconies and roofs where the tasks and fun is shared by members of a group. Farming is not an easy task and many difficult problems arise which need careful attention. To help with such problems the City Government now runs training sessions in the planting of seedlings for community farmers as well as other gardening seminars which are held periodically. An agricultural technology service group has also been set up to provide comprehensive services and to offer solutions to diverse problems and to ultimately build Taipei into a Garden City.

By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The Taipei City Government would like to build Taipei into a LOHAS and recreational “garden city”. In addition to establish a Center of Community Gardens to promote public farms through the “Citizens’ opinion exchange” and “Mutual learning of communities”, the garden bank network platform has been created to provide useful agricultural information. Farms have been opened for “adoption” by citizen groups to allow members to gain experience in the planting of vegetables and fruit as urban farmers. Citizens farms have been built on idle suburban farmlands under the guidance of experienced farmers to allow citizens to gain farming experience and to understand the real value of agriculture.

By Cheng,Kuang-ting/flyingV
The creative solution that arose from crowd-funding utilization, brought forth a new trend for startups. Not only does it provide a combination of the two platforms of “creative, idealistic, but lacking capital” with “have capital, and willing to donate and support quality creativity”. Now the threshold of entrepreneurship has been lowered, plus capital now may be sourced from crowd funding, along with maintaining creativity and operation independence on the proposer’s side. In order to increase the success rate of the entrepreneurship, flyingV has proposed providing consulting material, that has to include the four elements of: “anticipation”, “trust”, “uniqueness”, “value”, as well as analyzing the operation of its products and proposition before and after the project’s availability. Generally speaking, “Music Videos”, “Technical Applications”, and “Product Design” are the three projects with the highest amount of one-time donations. The proposers of these projects, have learned that there are many highly-anticipated business opportunities in our society, yet no one is going for them. We recommend that the government should provide a transparent and clear information platform, so that the pre-existing civil resources may be utilized appropriately, thus further provide entrepreneurs a more fostering environment. By slowly concentrating skilled professionals, capital, and industries, we may truly build a fertile ground for entrepreneurship.

By Lin,Tuan-jung/Changee
In order to market and make “Taipei Entrepreneurship” a brand, it requires a dazzling brand image, as well as a 30-second definition representing its spirit, which is the business mission. Based on this, this article will pin-point the competition and its own position using the three indicators of performance superiority, operational excellence, and customer intimacy, by which we can find out how to develop a city that welcomes entrepreneurship. First and foremost, we must analyze the environment for startups within all aspects of performance superiority, including policies, settings, social platforms, information exchanges, capital, etc. Next, by systemizing all startup-related data into one unified platform, we can add efficiency to information organization and managerial method, which would then shorten all processes and time. Lastly, we provide a targeted and customized one-website access point service for all inquires.

By Su,Shih-chung/Taiwan Venture Capital Association
Reflection and awareness among the senior marks the beginning of creativity, innovation, and venture among the young. The underlying purpose of promoting the entrepreneurship policy must be equivalent to that of venture and innovation; it is to improve the environment for people to start their own business. The mechanism to expedite promotion of the entrepreneurship policy can be explored from the following three elements: 1. an open attitude to include diversified creativity; 2. revision of laws, regulations, and systems; and 3. bravery and absence of fear about ventures. Only when the overall environment for young people to start their own business in Taiwan is improved can they have the courage to make the move. With innovation and creativity, the dream of owning a business will come true through Angel Investment.

By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The Taipei City startup platform “StartUP@Taipei” was officially launched on March 2015. This well-integrated platform not only compiles entrepreneurial data from all fronts, but also gathers all 48 centralized startup-related resources, providing entrepreneurs a one-stop consulting service. Aside from this, it has established the “Taipei Angel’s Club”, a startup-planning instructor guidance team, mix-generational startup brainstorming meetings, 2015 Star of Tomorrow’s startup competition. It will encourage more positive energy for creativity and entrepreneurial spirit through the efforts of the Taipei City Government.

By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
In March 2015, “living lab @ Taipei” was established by the Taipei City Government, this is a innovative experiment that uses Taipei as an environment for gathering all innovation and possibilities by entrepreneurs. It contains many rich and creative ideas, including: Gogoro smartscooter, artistic air pumps, environmental improvement experiments from National Taipei University of Technology, as well as FabLab Taipei’s desire to transform the bottle-cap factories into “Innovator Factories”, etc. Not only can this innovation turn public service quality improvement into reality, but also guide innovative industries to increase productivity, thus spurring metropolitan economic development.