臺北產經資訊網

By Feng,Ling-hui/TIER
The “Global Views” issued the results of “a Mass Survey on the Overall Competitiveness of Counties and Cities” in July 2016. Taipei City won the championship once again in a national competition with other 19 counties and cities. For Taipei City, things are just going smoothly. In addition to winning the first prize in the overall ranking of competitiveness, this city also won the first prize either in the national counties and cities ranking or among the 6 municipalities in terms of 5 aspects — “economy and employment,” “education and culture,” “environmental protection and environmental quality,” “medical treatment and hygiene” as well as “local finance.” In the two aspects of “security” and “life quality and modernization,” Taipei City has made tremendous progress in the performance ranking compared to last year although it still has a long way to go for improvement. Its urban resource conditions, historical development and orientation – plus its perfect execution in the policy– are all key factors, which enabled Taipei City to become a regular winner in terms of the economy, education, medical treatment and finance.

By Liang,Pin-hsien/Taiwan Internet Of Things Alliance
According to IDC, the company estimated that the economies of scale for the IoT industry would reach 1.46 trillion USD by 2020. Thus, it can be a new opportunity for Taiwan to usher in the industrial development if the company introduces the “service-based” app IoT to its development. With five portfolios from the industry chain, the company combines big data analysis, social community, cloud services, mobile APP and sensory chips to comply with how to integrate it into the “BCMC” (abbr. Term stands for big data, community, mobile and cloud computing.). This integrated service can transform the properties of all things into digital data and then upload it to a cloud-based interface. It turns out to be a valuable service. It will be the next key route for IoT development.

By Yang,Yu-chi/ndustrial Technology Research Institute
As the global financial environment opens to the public, it helps to stimulate market demands and changes the models of consumer behavior. These are all the key factors that motivate the growth in the global mobile payment market. Taiwan is now officially entering into the first year of mobile payments. One should not neglect the critical issues of mobile payment implementation and service models. The competitive profile in the mobile payment market continues to progress since the hardware and software technologies have advanced to the next level, plus its innovations for the service model. This article discussed these aspects from the regional market potential of global mobile payments to the service models, industrial dynamics as well as social impact. It provides guidelines as a reference for the mobile payment vendors in Taiwan to consider it.

By Chu,Hsun-chi/Commerce Development Research Institute
The global transaction in Cross-Border e-Commerce has grown exponentially each year. Creative business models in bounteous and multiple forms allow consumers to buy international products on the internet without too much trouble. Business can develop new markets through e-Commerce or by integrating the original commerce network. Business can develop an integrated model in virtual reality to help it reach the overseas markets. Perhaps, it can take advantage of the information it acquires from consumers on the internet, or make use of the message of market demands to give instructions to develop products, enhance operating efficiency and explore a more lucrative new market. When the future arrives, it will be a time for e-Commerce and global marketing to boom. Business is able to “stay rooted in Taiwan, and go global” if it can connect internet marketing with international logistics and the cash flow project.

By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
The E-Commerce and M-commerce boom help promote a rising innovative business model. There are plenty of choices to make in each payment situation. Depending on the advantages of value added, fast and convenient benefits, this type of commerce has begun to replace cash dealing. Electronic payment shares these benefits to help you save on the cost and time using cash dealing or cross-border O2O dealing. The Taipei City Government has set up some 4G network infrastructure consecutively to implement each element in the smart city. It also provides payment methods for the citizens to pay all registration fees by electronic means. In the future, the government plans to combine the activities in the business district with mobile payments, cash flow and other convenient services that are easy for the public to apply.

By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
The Taipei City Government has built up the first “IoT experimental platform” in Taiwan. It has become a trial field, which integrates the value chain of a smart city and applied industries. Because of that, it can trigger multiple applications as well as innovations. It can also lead the industry to develop a solution and a model for whole factory exports. To speed up promoting a smart city and IoT applications and innovations, the government finished deploying the scope of communications. The scope can cover the entire WSNs in IoT (LoRa) across Taipei City. People expected that the government would display all types of innovations and applications on the international stage at the Universiade 2017 and WCIT 2017 by opening up the city to serve as a field for experimental use. It can bring in sufficient energy for research and development.

By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
The e-Commerce craze continues to spread across the world. Many traditional industries have started to explore sales channels for its e-Commerce more actively. In this journal, plenty of successful cases that received the “incentive and subsidy plan for industrial development in Taipei City” may include “Türk Kızları”. Such case puts in a lot of effort in its e-Commerce platform service and product improvement for its content through project implementation. “Türk Kızları” cultivates designers to design cultural and creative products, offers internship opportunities and employability for students from the Department of Turkish, and expects them to become e-Commerce leaders in Turkey. It offers extensive and in-depth content information for the consumers to read. A second case is “Mr. Good”. It connects farmers and fishermen, processing factories, restaurants, cooking studios and consumers to come up with a R&D plan so that it can comply with the feature of quality agriculture and support the production of sustainable agriculture as well as the industrial value chain for manufacturing and marketing. It helps the farmers and fishermen who are less familiar with the production and marketing end to do the processing and packaging work and sell their agricultural products. It sets up an exclusive procedure to handle perishable foods, shortening the route from the place of origin to the dining table. It increases the value of agricultural products for its added value.

By Hsu,Chu-hsien/TXA Private Board Of Directors
While many are interested in starting their own business around the world, Taiwan is also proactively creating a friendly environment for business starters. The central government and respective local governments are introducing various incentives for people starting their own business. Private incubation centers, venture accelerators, shared workspaces, and maker spaces are mushrooming, too. For a new company, however, how to make their innovative brand known by others is important and is something they must accomplish. The author suggests that they may take advantage of the international market, a venture agent, various venture competitions and events and the Go Incubation Board for Startup and Acceleration Firms as four major ways to create a higher-level brand. New companies in Taiwan are able to light up their own brand utilizing various strategies. Therefore, they glow in Taiwan and are in the spotlight on the international stage. What is more important is that they can transform their brand image into value on the capital market in order to gain sufficient fuels that keep the fire of innovation going!

By Lo,Chih-Shan/Institute for Information Industry
Faced with the impact brought about by emerging financial technology, powerfully unconventional and innovative characteristics are embedded in the development of the operational model, products, process flow, and application system for the financial service sector. This also further intensifies the collaboration between traditional financial institutions and financial technology providers. The core values of and opportunities brought about by the financial technology lie mainly in effectively reduced cost and efficient quality service, which are conducive to enhanced operational capability of financial institutions while the cost structure is significantly downsized. Taipei, being the political and economic center in Taiwan and a city that lies at the core of the Asia Pacific Region, owns abundant quality technology talent and innovative R&D momentum. While the world is proactively deploying and promoting an innovative approach to business, the innovative sector featuring FinTech mainly targets software systems and innovative service. The latter will be advantageous niche for Taipei while it tries to reach out to the Asia Pacific market.

By LO,CHIH-SHAN/Institute for Information Industry
Nearly all industrial developments rely on the Internet nowadays. By utilizing big data analysis technology, one can more quickly produce diversified data in real time. In other words, for core managers in an enterprise or venture team, they need data-driven strategic thinking. While entrepreneurs are thinking about where to start their business, if they can consider first the deployment of data assets of the business and then what kind of commercial pattern and market value the data can be transformed into and what kind of innovative service to be designed, the data-driven business will be sustainable.