Belgium-Taiwan Innovation Forum

June 7, 2024 13:00-15:00 click to share

InnoVEX Center Stage

The economies and industries of Taiwan and Belgium have long been supported by strong government subsidies for innovative R&D. This is mainly due to the fact that academic-based R&D centers have been the main sources of disruptive innovations in different key core industries (e.g., semiconductors in Taiwan, life sciences in Belgium, etc.).
In recent years, both in Taiwan and Belgium, these government-supported research entities have succeeded in developing applied technologies that are extremely "disruptive" to the industries, and through such technology and business transfer have successfully spawned "scale-up innovative startups" (known as "Scale-ups") that are outstanding in the industries, generating “unicorn” miracles in the industry. This forum has invited Prof. Hank Ching-Yao Huang, Vice President for Innovation of the Natioanl Yangming Chiaotung University, a renowned university Taiwan, and Mr. Xavier Lepot, Director of Louvain Tech Transfer Office from the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve from the French-speaking part of Belgium. (the UCLouvain has accumulated a total of 80 Spin-Offs by 2020), as well speakers that are executives from outstanding innovative companies from Taiwan and Belgium to present the latest developments in the field of "Scale-up's" that are successful spin-offs from universities' research projects.

Agenda

13:00 - 13:10 Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
13:10 - 13:30 Keynote
"Innovation as the Engine of Growth" how do Taiwan (example of NYCU) and Belgium academic research projects generate innovative technologies that become tomorrow's scale-ups
Hank Huang VP for Innovation, NYCU
NICOLAS BIOULDirector, OpenHub
13:30 - 14:00 Keynote
How do accelerators help these processes of commercial and technological spinoffs and help nurture scale-up's
14:00 - 14:40 Demo Pitch
Pitches from Belgian and Taiwan startups
14:30 - 15:00 Panel
Panel Discussion Taiwan-Belgium SMEs Innovation
Moderator
Hank Huang VP for Innovation, NYCU

Speakers