FUTURE STARS: Together with the Hsinchu Biomedical Science Park, the new park can form an industrial corridor to raise Taiwan’s competitiveness, the president said
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 16, 2018
By: Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday inaugurated the National Biotechnology
President Tsai Ing-wen, fifth right, yesterday presides over the inauguration of the National Biotechnology Research Park in Taipei’s Nangang District with Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je, fourth right, Academia Sinica President James Liao, fifth left, and other officials. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
Research Park in Taipei’s Nangang District (南港), saying its opening marks a giant step in the development of the nation’s biotech industry.
The park houses the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Food and Drug Administration, the Ministry of Science and Technology’s National Laboratory Animal Center, the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Development Center for Biotechnology, an incubation center, two Academia Sinica research centers and a bioinformatics center.
While some of the agencies moved in last year, the park’s inauguration had been put off several times.
With Academia Sinica leading the project and a budget of more than NT$20 billion (US$646.4 million), the park was set up on a site that used to house the Ministry of National Defense’s 202nd Arsenal. [FULL STORY]
