The Bureau of Industrial Parks (BIP) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) held a press conference on March 2, 2026, and announced the concrete achievement of the policy “One Park, One School,” which is BIP’s industry-academic co-create engine promotion. Since 2023, BIP has introduced the policy, and more than 30 universities and 500 experts around Taiwan have successfully connected to assist manufacturers in parks for upgrading and transformation. More than 5,400 manufacturers, covering 72 of the BIP’s parks, have gained consulting and successfully applied for 117 subsidy programs, which have received subsidy funds of NT$265 million from the Government, boosting investment of NT$1,166 million and approximately NT$2 billion output value. It had presented the powerful efficiency of industry-academic collaboration, injecting the practical momentum for industrial upgrading.
The BIP pointed out that in addition to assisting enterprises in enhancing technical and operational efficiency, the industry-academic co-creation policy, One Park, One School,” also responds to the challenges caused by the U.S.-tariff policy. Addressing the situation about parts of traditional industries, facing pressures of output market and cost rising situation, BIP assisted in introducing production optimization, production high value-added, and market transformation, enhancing smart manufacturing abilities at the same time, to decrease the impacts of tariff, strengthen international competitive capability, and accelerate industrial upgrading transformation.
BIP indicated that the industrial parks under its jurisdiction are important hubs for Taiwan’s manufacturing industries and SMEs. More than 13,000 enterprises have established a presence in parks, with an annual output value exceeding NT$10 trillion, and provide 730,000 job opportunities. Facing the pressure of talent shortages, AI digital transformation, and R&D momentum enhancement, BIP pioneered a measure, “One Park, One School,” an industry-academia co-creation engineer, to assist manufacturers in solving the increasing operating pressure. By leveraging the resources of schools and the corporation's expertise, providing localized services such as emerging technical support and talent matchmaking for enterprises in parks enhances overall operational resilience.
The press conference presented several remarkable collaboration cases, demonstrating the significant effects of industry-academia partnerships. BenQ Dialysis, located in Guishan Industrial Park, has collaborated with Lunghwa University of Science and Technology to introduce an AI identification system and automatic instant testing, which successfully enhanced anomaly detection during productive processing of dialyzers and significantly optimized quality stability. Thunder Tiger Corp. in Taichung Industrial Park cooperated with National Formosa University to jointly set up an UAV R&D Center. They independently researched and manufactured the TF500 Fixed-Wing UAV, which significantly extended the battery life and enhanced the efficiency of the production line. It could be used in long-distance military detecting missions, assisting in creating momentum for national defense autonomy.
In addition, SUMEEKO in the southern parks, Da-Fa Industrial Park, cooperated with ChengShiu University to introduce CAE simulation technology and a deep learning image detection system. It efficiently establishes key productive processes for fasteners and intelligent management, which can decrease production costs while enhancing mold design efficiency, and successfully promotes independent industry-academia projects, showing the upgrading potential in local industrial transformation.
The industry-academia co-create engine policy, “One Park, One School,” has shown a concrete effect on talent trainees. Minghsin University of Science and Technology has matched 297 students to enterprises in the Hsinchu Industrial Park, such as Wistron and Powertech Technology Inc., for internships, which implement the educational concept “Learning by Doing.” Mingshin has matched more than 2,400 students, conducted internships, and held more than 1,900 hours of courses on workplace skills. Meanwhile, Minghsin has utilized subsidy resources from the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Labor to promote 85 talent cultivation projects, fulfilling the talent shortages in the semiconductor industry.
The BIP emphasized that as the trends of AI and Net-Zero continue to be promoted, there will be both greater challenges and opportunities for industries in the parks. The “One Park, One School” model, which integrates local higher education resources with government support, effectively enhances technological capabilities and overall competitiveness. Moving forward, BIP will continue to expand the scale of this initiative, building a sustainable and long-term platform for industry–academia collaboration and helping Taiwan’s industrial parks secure a strategic advantage amid the restructuring of global supply chains.
Spokesman: Mr. Liu Chi-Chuan (Deputy Director General, BIP)
Contact Number: 886-7-3613349, 0911363680
Email: lcc12@bip.gov.tw
Contact Person: Wu, Shu-Fang (Acting Director of Investment Services Div., BIP)
Contact Number: 886-7-361-1212 ext. 302
Email: wusf@bip.gov.tw
