An overview of NSC Programs

And International Cooperation

between Canada and Taiwan

Professor Willis T. Lin Director General

Department of International Cooperaiton National Science Council

October 2012

Contents

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•S&T inputs/outputs in Taiwan •NSC missions/International Programs •Joint programs with Canada NSERC /NRC/CRC/CIHR •Perspectives

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R&D Inputs: Expenditure & Manpower

Denmark

China(1.77, 1.6, 179)

Finland(3.88, 17.0, 8)

Sweden(3.40, 10.9, 13)

Switzerland

US(2.90, 9.5, 402)

Taiwan(2.90, 12.2, 24)

Austria

Singapore

Germany(2.82, 8.1, 86)

France

Japan(3.26, 10.4, 141)

Korea(3.37, 10.0, 45)

Canada(1.81,8.6,24)

UK(1.76, 7.6, 39)

Netherlands

Australia

Norway

Czech Republic

IrelandRussian Federation

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Updated 2012/10/11

R&D Expenditure in Taiwan

9,595 10,356 10,981 11,47412,343

2.51 2.572.77 2.94 2.90

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2006 2007 2008 2009 20102.02.22.42.62.83.03.23.4

R&D Expenditure R&D expenditure/GDP US$ million (Rate=32:1)

Total: US$ 12.3 Billion (72.5% from private sector,

27.5% from government )

%

Six National Science and Technology Programs of Taiwan

Program name Period Outlay (USD)

1. Networked Communications(I) 2009~2012 350 Millions

2. Intelligent Electronics 2011~2015 367.6 Millions

3. Nano Technology (I, II) 2003~2008 2009~2014

536.1 Millions 622.9 Millions

4. Biopharmaceuticals (I) 2011~2016 426.9 Millions

5.Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Digital Archives (I, II) e-Learning (I)

2008~2012 2002~2007 2003~2007

190.4 Millions 107.0 Millions 101.1 Millions

6. Energy (I) 2009~2013 909.1 Millions

1 USD = 33 NT

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Factors/Sub-factors HK US

CH

SG SE CA TW DE KR CN JP IN BR RU

Hong Kong USA Switzerland Singapore Sweden Canada Taiwan Germany Korea China Japan India Brazil Russia

Overall competitiveness

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 22 23 27 35 46 48

1. Economic performance 4 1 7 9 17 12 13 5 27 3 24 21 47 45

2. Government efficiency 1 22 4 2 8 9 5 19 25 34 48 42 55 45

3. Business efficiency 1 11 7 2 5 9 4 17 25 32 33 24 27 53

4. Infrastructure 18 1 2 8 3 6 12 7 20 29 17 53 45 38 (1) Basic Infrastructure 24 6 7 14 11 3 18 15 21 10 32 49 50 42

(2) Technological Infrastructure 1 2 8 3 6 10 4(6) 13 14 26 24 25 54 34

(3) Science Infrastructure 21 1 6 13 9 11 7(7) 3 5 8 2 32 33 23

(4) Health and Environment 23 24 2 22 1 9 26 7 28 51 16 58 35 54

(5) Education 27 23 3 6 4 7 24 17 31 45 36 58 54 38

2012 The World Competitiveness Rankings by International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland

Note: Information source from IMD, the world competitiveness yearbook 2012 covers 59 countries. Updated 10/11/2012

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評比項目 CH SG FI SE NL DE US HK JP TW KR FR CN CA Switzerland Singapore Finland Sweden Netherlands Germany USA Hong Kong Japan Taiwan Korea France China Canada

Global Competitiveness 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 13 19 21 29 14

1.Basic Requirement 2 1 4 6 10 11 33 3 29 17 18 23 31 14

(1) Institutions 5 1 3 6 7 16 41 10 22 26 62 32 50 11

(2) Infrastructure 5 2 23 19 7 3 14 1 11 17 9 4 48 13 (3) Macroeconomic

environment 8 17 24 13 41 30 111 15 124 28 10 68 11 51

(4) Health and primary education 8 3 1 14 5 22 34 26 10 15 11 21 35 7

2.Efficiency Enhancers 5 1 9 8 7 10 2 3 11 12 20 18 30 6 (5) Higher education and

training 3 2 1 7 6 5 8 22 21 9 17 27 62 15

(6) Goods market efficiency 7 1 18 12 6 21 23 2 20 8 29 46 59 13

(7) Labor market efficiency 1 2 15 25 17 53 6 3 20 22 73 66 41 4 (8) Financial market

development 9 2 4 10 20 32 16 1 36 19 71 27 54 11

(9) Technological readiness 6 5 10 1 9 15 11 4 16 24 18 14 88 20 (10) Market size 39 37 54 34 20 5 1 26 4 17 11 8 2 13

3.Innovation Factors 1 11 3 5 6 4 7 22 2 14 17 18 34 21

(11) Business sophistication 2 14 7 5 4 3 10 17 1 13 22 21 45 26 (12) Innovation 1 8 2 4 9 7 6 26 5 14 16 17 33 22

The Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013

by WEF(World Economic Forum)

Updated 10/11/2012

NSC Missions

Promotion of National S&T development

Support for academic research

Formulating four-year plans

Reviewing, monitoring and evaluating of government S&T programs

Funding research in physical sciences, life sciences, applied research and engineering, science education humanities and social sciences.

International cooperation

Development of Science Park

Providing infrastructure & one-stop service to high-tech companies

Enhancing R&D and production capability

Support Academic Research Uses grant mechanism

Free Research 49%

Reinforce R&D Environment 26%

Mission-oriented Research 25%

Funding Mechanisms for International Cooperation

Exchange of visits + overseas research study/training Summer Institutes in Taiwan Joint Research Projects – Bottom up free application Top-down joint call for proposals Mission-oriented Programs

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Funding Opportunities – People Mobility

• For Faculty

– Short-term research stay overseas(3~12 months)

– Inviting faculty from abroad (one week)

– Organizing international conference in Taiwan

– Attending international conferences held overseas

– Hosting students from abroad under Summer Institute in Taiwan program (counterparts in Canada including NSERC and CIHR)

• For students (Ph.D./post-docs)

– Attending international conferences

– Overseas Research Training Programs for postdoctoral research up to 24 months for graduate students up to 12 months

Summer Programs in Taiwan USA NSF (20-25)

One way traffic students come from

abroad

Canada NSERC (8-10) CIHR (5-10)

France Universities (30-35)

Italy Universities (5)

Spain Universities (10)

Germany DAAD ( > 20 from each side annually)

Two way traffic Incoming + Outgoing

Japan Interchange Association ( 20 from each side annually)

Overseas Research Training Programs

• The NSC has programs subsidize Taiwanese postdoctoral researchers to conduct long-term research overseas to gain research experience overseas, develop their global perspective and strengthen international collaborations.

• The funding can be available for postdoctoral research for a maximum of two years; for graduate students for a maximum of twelve months.

Year Ph.D students

Postdocs

2007 179 39 2008 163 46 2009 178 53 2010 186 75 2011 185 66 2012 134 82

Results of 2010 Concurrent Call NSC’s Global Partnership Programs and Strategic Project Grants

Program

• 3 joint projects funded

– 2 in Information and Communication Technologies

– 1 in Energy

Joint Project 1: Advanced Communications and Management of Information / System-

on-Chip

• NSERC Principal Investigator: – Prof. Zeljko Zilic - McGill University

– Title: Quality-driven integrated system design

– 3 year funding: $312,000 CAD (9,310,993 TWD)

• NSC Principal Investigator: – Prof. Ing-Jer Huang – National Sun Tat-sen University

– Title: Multi-Core System on Chip (SoC) Monitoring and Debugging Infrastructure

– 3 year funding* 7,495,977 TWD ($251,166 CAD)

* To be confirmed

Joint Project 2: Advanced Communications and Management of Information /

Networked Communications

• NSERC Principal Investigator: – Prof. Robert Schober – University of British Colombia

– Title: Intelligent interference management and mitigation in wireless communication systems

– 3 year funding: $628,660 CAD (18,758,456 TWD)

• NSC Principal Investigator: – Prof. Li-Chun Wang - National Chiao Tung University

– Title: Intelligent interference management and mitigation in wireless communication systems

– 3 year funding* 11,006,244 TWD ($368,583 CAD)

* To be confirmed

Joint Project 3: Sustainable Energy Systems / Energy

• NSERC Principal Investigator: – Prof. Steven Holdcroft – Simon Fraser University

– Title: Non-perfluorinated solid polymer electrolytes for fuel cell catalyst layers

– 3 year funding: $ 280,500 CAD (8,369,781 TWD)

• NSC Principal Investigator: – Prof. Wen-Yao Huang - National Sun Yat-Sen University

– Title: Preparation and Evaluation of Polymer Electrolytes for Fuel Cells

– 3 year funding* 4,587,075 TWD ($153,607 CAD)

* To be confirmed

Outcomes in molecular imaging for cancer diagnosis and therapeutics

Joint collaboration success story:

• Kui Yu (余 睽), Dennis Whitfield and Dar-Bin Shieh

• NRC Security and Disruptive Technologies • NRC Human Health Therapeutics • National Cheng Kung University

• 06 September 2012

Next phase Joint Research Porjects Development of Novel Antibody-Drug Conjugates as Cancer Therapeutics NRC: Maria Jaramillo, John Zwaagstra and Maureen O’Connor NSC institution(s): NRC-Montreal ITRI institute(s): Maggie Lu and Ken Huang Companies potentially involved: AvidBiologics, Amorchem

Project Name: Novel vaccines for hospital-acquired infections of significance to Canada and Taiwan Project leaders: NRC: Wangxue Chen NSC institution(s): Pele Chong (NIIDV, NHRI) ITRI institute(s): Companies potentially involved: TTY Biopharm Company Ltd. (Taiwan); Cangene (Canada) and PnuVax (Canada)

NSC-CRC Phase III (2009-2011) Collaboration

on

RF Front End and Adaptive Communication Techniques for

Cognitive Radio Applications

Dr. Alex Vukovic

Program Managers: M. Cuhaci, J. Sydor, V.Szwarc

Dec. 6, 2010

NSC-CRC Collaboration on

Millimeter-wave RF and Digital Beamforming Techniques for Broadband Wireless

Communications

2012-2015

Prof. Sheng-Fuh Chang Department of Communication Engineering,

National Chung Cheng University

International Research-intensive Center of Excellence (I-RiCE)

Distinguished scholars/Lecturers from abroad

International Conferences in Taiwan

Summer Institutes in Taiwan

Summer Program

1~2 year research study/internship

Attending International Conferences

Dragon Gate Program

Conducting International Joint Research Projects

Polishing the Best Mind (PBM program)

Long-term Overseas Research

Outgoing programs

Incoming programs – broader impact

Program \year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Inviting

Scholars from abroad 696 734 851 1,022 767

Going abroad for attending international conferences

Faculty and researchers

852 8,013

686 9,370

822 10,488

1,079 11,582

872 10,968

Graduate students 1,596 2,070 2,564 3,307 2,589

Organized Groups/ persons

32/156 50/286 40/293 40/231 35/178

Holding conference at home 295 363 519 313 270

3-12 month overseas Research 209 220 252 251 273

Polishing the Best Minds projects - - 44 32 41

People mobility related programs

Year total country 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

USA 91 74 48 60 57 46 (75) 376 Canada 17 9 8 8 0 4 (9) 46 France 29 22 19 13 15 6 (24) 104 Japan 22 16 15 19 14 4 (18) 90 Russia 27 23 19 28 35 31 (85) 163

Germany 10 3 4 8 6 5 (9) 36 UK 10 6 6 5 4 4 (8) 35

Switzerland

(CERN) 4 7 3 5 3 5 (8) 27 Belgium

(EU) 7 2 2 1 1 8 (10) 21 Lithuania, Latvia 2 2 3 2 4 4 (6) 17 Others 16 39 34 31 72 45 (107) 237

Total 235 203 161 180 211 162

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