臺北產經資訊網

By Fan Hui-yi(Research Fellow, Commerce Development Research Institute)/Li,Zhi(Consultant, Commerce Development Research Institute)

By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
To respond to the developing trend of digitalization, the Taipei City Government actively supports industrial upgrades and transformations to create endless business opportunities for smart technology. In 2017, the Taipei City Government raised a proposal of “Taipei Smart City Living Lab – Government as a Platform” to cover every aspect of the smart public housing, smart transportation, smart health care, and smart green energy, which has been awarded the Gold Award of “cooperative city” in the WeGO Smart Sustainable City Awards. In addition, the Taipei City government established the the City’s government-related payments platform for public service fees—pay.taipei , through integrating an array of payment tools the municipal services bill payment online. In the future, the government will continue to provide more innovative service through the public and private partnership.

By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
To respond to the digital economy trend, the Taipei City Government actively engaged in planning how to use the creative digital technology to help vendors develop creative service models, and fostered the new startup business for its development. For example, the government built the “Taipei digiBlock” to establish the industrial chain for innovative villages, and cooperate with the leading graphics processing unit (GPU) technology manufacturer NVIDIA. The first “Virtual Reality Lab @ Taipei” was then established at the Neihu office of NVIDIA, and free basic training for professionals and virtual reality (VR) equipment are available to support the new startup business as a strong backup force. In future, the Taipei City Government will continue to pool more resources for the startups to expand a more diversified business, and search for more opportunities to match with the job seekers on behalf of the vendors. In addition, plenty of awards and resources with subsidies are also available to new startups so that they are encouraged to join the emerging technology domain for R&D. Hopefully, they can develop innovation applications and services, and keep moving on to enter into the international market.

By Chen, Kung/Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University
Blockchain technology shares some of the features of decentralization and unmanipulated data, and has gradually become a new platform technology. If we observe its development trend such as the Smart Contract applications, we can tell from its industrial scope and find it is quite pervasive. It can improve the existing business procedure, and give support to develop a new business model. However, the Enterprise Blockchain allows the enterprise to use the consensus accounting system applied to high efficiency, privacy protection for transactional data through membership identification and authorized management. These applications have accordingly become a focal point.

By Cori Shieh/Secretary General, Taiwan Association for Virtual and Augmented Reality
Discovering the huge business opportunity in the AR/VR market, a number of large international software or hardware manufacturers have been attracted to enter into the market to develop and invest related devices and content. It can improve the existing product requirements specifications, and there is more room for creating new applications. On top of that, the end equipment for production capacity is also available. It is estimated that it can create a new business model through a whole-new interactive experience. Facing the fast development of industrial marketization and industrial scale-up, the author suggests that the government should start from a few base points. Build the industrial cluster of the ecology vertically, create a domestic demand in the market, and establish the test areas and domains to verify the business model for the services, as well as incorporate the local culture and historical experience.

By Chen,Lieu-hen/Associate Professor, CSIE, National Chi Nan University
Since the advent of Big Data, in-depth learning has become the new emerging trend, with many developed countries and large technology manufacturers successively engaging in the artificial intelligence (AI) research, looking into medical treatment, finances, and industrial manufacturing, or other aspects of living. The derivative commercial applications now spread across the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), robots, self-driving cars, and image recognition. Apparently, the AI revolutionary influence has gradually changed the way it looks on technology applications and has subverted it entirely. However, many international cities promote smart city plans. They are dedicated to applying AI smart applications on public security, traffic management, anti-disaster and disaster rescue, tourist guides, and city resource optimization.

By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
According to the statistics collected by Garmin, Taipei had invested about 1.11 trillion NTD in the scale of the sports industry in 2015. Among all sports, business opportunities for the road running have already created an amount that exceeds 16 billion NTD each year. Recently, the road-running event engages more people to join in, and there is a diversity of road running events featuring all kinds of topics. If further estimates are applied to evaluate the economic output value for the tournament event, there will be a great demand for potential opportunities generated by the participation fees, traffic and accommodations and peripheral equipment and products. Indirectly, it motivates the people who are willing to engage in the sports and recreation industry to invest in its related industry. The current session has introduced two cases with the brand subsidy known as the “Project of Subsidies and Incentives for Industrial Development in Taipei City,” respectively. They are the “SURPERACE athlete from the deserts” built by the expert in desert races Kevin Lin, and the “RunBase” with subsidy for start-ups, which are the best supply stations for runners to get energized.

By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
There is a great demand for each tournament held in Universiade Taipei 2017 so the government has actively invited and gathered enterprises to make use of the diffusion effects of the brand for the “Universiade Taipei 2017” in a collective way. The enterprises were invited to create added value for the business and culture, and expand their business territory in the global market. There are four levels of plans on how the enterprises to join the event concerning the way of cooperation and participation by the sponsors. It offers the brand image of differentiation, public relations network, marketing advantage, promotional resources and other exclusive rights and feedback based on the scale of cooperation. Until the expiry date by end of May, the total value of sponsorship will exceed 1.3 billion NTD. With all the great support from the enterprises, the government will create the most amazing Universiade Taipei ever.

By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
To welcome the Universiade Taipei 2017, the construction of all kinds of international professional stadiums built for the tournament has now been now completed in consecutive order. Candidates from every country are allowed to relax before they make a mark on their performance in each well-established, professional stadium. On the other hand, the Taipei city government hoped to engage all people to join the event so it holds the marketing campaigns and creates promotions for Universiade Taipei 2017 via TV channels, print media, networks and outdoors media in addition to holding international and national sports events. Thereby, it creates a healthy and energetic city for sport and living for people in the Taipei city to cheer up teams for the Universiade Taipei 2017!