Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/08
By: Tai Ya-chen and Elizabeth Hsu
London, July 7 (CNA) Taiwan is seeking to strengthen cooperation with the United
Photo courtesy of Science and Technology Division, Taipei Representative Office in the UK
Kingdom in the fields of technology, the humanities and social sciences, with a visit to London by Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Su Fong-chin (蘇芳慶) last week.
Su, heading a delegation of the Ministry of Science and Technology, visited the British Library July 5, where he held talks with chief library executive Roly Keating in an effort to seek to reinforce Taiwan’s international cooperation in the areas of humanities and social sciences, according to the Taipei Representative Office in the United Kingdom.
During the meeting, the two sides exchanged views on ways to support start-up businesses after Keating noted that the British Library established a commercial and intelligence property center in 2006 with the goal of helping the formation of start-ups.
As of 2014, the center had offered assistance to more than 400,000 people, Keating was cited as saying in a statement released by the office’s technology division Saturday.
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