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Inventory of all articles of TaipeiEcon
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By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The Taipei City Government connects the idea of “design” with technology industry domain and establishes the “Taipei Co-Space” inside the public service building of the Neihu Science Park to provide a co-working space for micro-enterprise’s entrepreneurs or freelance workers. People who work in-house may discuss, do brainstorming and collaborate by exchanging ideas together via this built platform. They can create innovative commercial thoughts or boosts new business models to create endless business opportunities.
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By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
For a startup team, it definitely helps boost operating capital, connections and required technology in the industry and the market share by being able to establish presence in an internationally famous accelerator or to taking part in international entrepreneurship competition where they can exchange experiences and share stories with other elites from around the world. The Taipei City Government’s Department of Economic Development has launched” Taipei City Government Start-up Programs for Subsidy entrepreneurial team abroad” to encourage startup teams to broaden their international horizon, strengthen their connections with the world in terms of funding, talent, and technology.Venture teams with potential that are registered in Taipei are sponsored while they try to establish presence in international accelerators, take part in international venture events, or incubation center development plans.
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By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The Taipei City startup platform “StartUP@Taipei” was officially launched on March 2015. This well-integrated platform not only compiles entrepreneurial data from all fronts, but also gathers all 48 centralized startup-related resources, providing entrepreneurs a one-stop consulting service. Aside from this, it has established the “Taipei Angel’s Club”, a startup-planning instructor guidance team, mix-generational startup brainstorming meetings, 2015 Star of Tomorrow’s startup competition. It will encourage more positive energy for creativity and entrepreneurial spirit through the efforts of the Taipei City Government.
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By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
In March 2015, “living lab @ Taipei” was established by the Taipei City Government, this is a innovative experiment that uses Taipei as an environment for gathering all innovation and possibilities by entrepreneurs. It contains many rich and creative ideas, including: Gogoro smartscooter, artistic air pumps, environmental improvement experiments from National Taipei University of Technology, as well as FabLab Taipei’s desire to transform the bottle-cap factories into “Innovator Factories”, etc. Not only can this innovation turn public service quality improvement into reality, but also guide innovative industries to increase productivity, thus spurring metropolitan economic development.
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By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The Central Government and Taipei City Government provides the most abundant and whole startup consultation and environment, solving the problem of today’s youth running into startup obstacles such as the lack of space and resources. With the introduction of resources such as the Yuanshan Expo Park’s Innovation Arena, Youth Entrepreneurial Dream Web, Jinhwa Youth-Innovation Base, and Taipei Youth Career Developmental Center, etc. With assistance in every aspect, we may allow young people to accomplish their startup dreams, and further stimulate economic flow and industrial development.
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By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
The torch of the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade Fair was lit up in its place of origin Paris, France. After that, people passed on the torch to Taipei City, and a torch cruise began in the surroundings of the city government hall and Taipei 101. Taipei City Mayor Wen-je Ko was the representative to welcome the troop leader of the Universiade Torch Troop Bing-wan Zhao. Since all activities of the 2017 Taipei Summer Universiade kept commencing, this international fair had carried the main engine of this program of a “four year great leap” for Taipei City on its shoulders. Many expect that Taiwan can establish friendship with every country through this great sports event to promote the spirit for national sports, to promote city reconstruction, citizen participation and cultural elevation. Furthermore, it may increase international visibility for Taiwan and Taipei City through international sports exchange and skills competition to motivate the glamor of Taipei city so that more people can know Taipei is a place to be proud of in Taiwan!
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By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
The Taipei government has created a business-friendly environment for social enterprises to grow and promoted sustainable growth within a social enterprise. Since 2014, the government began to promote some projects relevant to this goal. It enlarged the number of enterprises involved in receiving instructions from the government since 2015, promoting the campaign known as “SMEs brand expanding project-giving instructions to build a brand image for social enterprises through promotions”. The government continued to run a "project to promote services for the social enterprises located in Taipei City" in 2016. It is estimated that over 20 local social enterprises have received instructions on a case-by-case basis. Besides, the government helped the citizens to get to know more about how the social enterprise develops into a national and global business through a series of campaigns.
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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.
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By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
With the ripple effect created by the global professional e-Sport league, the 2015 global game output value has reached 91.5 billion according to an international marketing survey institution report. Among them, mobile games outperformed the other categories. Moreover, statistics from the biggest global game video streaming platform, Twich showed that Taipei city is the city with the largest global traffic ranking. Its e-Sport population, audience or consumption may more or less sustain the development of some e-Sport related industries. Therefore, starting from September 2015, the Taipei City Government has been promoting a series of campaigns for the meeting including an e-Sport seminar, e-Sport World Cup broadcast and promo general assembly with the City Mayor in attendance to promote the slogan called “Taipei empowered e-Sport to move on to championship and second place”. Many expected that powered by government officials, Taipei can support the development of the e-Sport industry, and supplement the e-Sport industry with new motivation through a division of labor among each agency for negotiation.
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By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The Taipei City Government actively plans to provide each civil service that connects with technology and i-City to become an important goal for civil construction. Through the implementation of the Taipei City i-City project, the government allows the information and communication industry to have a good testing ground as its backup force so that the citizens may enjoy the good results of intelligent service; in terms of education, the government provides the smarter education CooC-Cloud. Teachers and students can use the Taipei CooC-Cloud for smarter education anytime and anywhere only if they use the interface, which is easy to use. In terms of civil service, the government also provides the Taipei Civil Affairs-Cloud service, Taipei Service Cloud and the Taipei Card integrated service by combining the latest technology and information service so that its citizens can enjoy a more convenient life.
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By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
In the Taipei City business districts there are many easy to navigate night markets for shopping and for eating a tasty meal or snack. Many different and interesting events are organized each summer. There is a wide variety of gourmet foods offered at the night markets as well as a summer fun camera shooting event that attracts both domestic and international tourists. Taiwan’s largest center for materials and accessories in the Zhaoyang Business District, also holds an “Innovative Design Contest.” The public can use the Taipei image as an axis for the design of innovative and unique fashionable T-shirts or other creative commodities.
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By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
Dadaocheng has long been the most important center in Taipei for groceries and dry foods, including tea and the ingredients for Chinese herbal medicines, not to mention fabrics. Over the past Century, Dadaocheng has brought Taipei great fortune. History shows the contribution to the economy of Taiwan to be most substantial. A music and Fireworks Festival organized by the Taipei City Government was held in Dadaocheng on September 26th 2015. This most spectacular fireworks display, held at the Yenping Riverside Park, caused much excitement. In addition to the glorious fireworks show, a series of other events are regularly held around the Dadaocheng area. Bring your lovers, families, and friends to Dadaocheng for an exciting and enjoyable summer break.