Long-term Partnership with MIT
Aiming to facilitate Taiwan's industrial development and promote regional economic prosperity, the Epoch Foundation bridges resources from the world's top-notch academic institutes. Our partner is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). We regularly introduce the latest technologies and training programs, for Taiwan industries to engage with the global economy.

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Epoch-MIT/ILP
Industrial Liaison Program
Epoch-MIT/CSAIL
Industry Affiliates Program
Epoch-MIT/Sloan
Executive Education Program
Epoch-MIT/Taiwan's Innovative
Green Economy Roadmap (TIGER)
MIT is known for its innovative tech developments. It has the most outstanding faculty and R&D teams, across hundreds of labs in 33 departments at six schools. Throughout the years, the MIT has “incubated” 95 Nobel Prize winners, plus countless authorized patents. Other than academic research, it is the institute's tradition to collaborate with industries and cultivate entrepreneurs. According to a survey conducted by Entrepreneurship and Innovation at MIT in 2015, the institute's alumni have founded more than 30,000 companies in total, which have generated more than 4.6 million jobs and business revenues worth US$1.09 trillion every year.
The MIT ILP was founded in 1948. At the time, the U.S. government entrusted MIT to carry out major R&D projects and allowed private companies to utilize the results. And since 1993, the MIT Industrial Liaison Program, jointly hosted by MIT and the Epoch Foundation, have enabled 20 leading companies in Taiwan to access top-notch technologies, resources for developing applications, and updated knowledge management as well as business strategies. The program serves as an important “gate” for member companies to grasp the latest global R&D trends and market tendencies, as well as to expand its global horizons. As of now, more than 400 representatives have visited MIT for the talks, conferences, and tailormade programs held in Boston, USA, where MIT is located.
【2019 MIT ILP-Epoch 台灣年會】Less Artificial, More Intelligence: Challenges of AI as a New Industry

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The world's most important R&D center for information technology and artificial intelligence, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has set many landmarks in these two fields. In recent years, MIT CSAIL also leads research and industry trends in Internet communications, World Wide Web, speech recognition, computational biology, touch user interface, computer vision, etc. These technologies have triggered a new set of tech revolutions.
In 1998, the Epoch Foundation, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and MIT AI Lab launched the Epoch-MIT/CSAIL Industry Affiliates Program, for Taiwanese companies to send staff to the two labs and take part in the R&D there.
In June 2000, through the program, Delta Electronics and Acer joined the Oxygen Alliance to develop a new-generation computer that caters to people's needs with HP (Hewlett-Packard), Nokia, Philips, and NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation).
In 2005, Quanta Computer collaborated with CSAIL on the Project TParty. In 2010, they signed an R&D plan named Qmulus and in 2019, they continued the R&D project under the theme of AI Medicine. These have served as a solid foundation for Taiwan to stand out in the global information technology community.
(*Note: MIT LCS and MIT AI Lab merged in 2003, to form the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, CSAIL)
MIT CSAIL 產學合作

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『The Epoch Foundation sponsored the Asia Pacific Initiative of the MIT Sloan School of Management. The project researched the economic imperatives in Asia and aimed to assist Asian countries with stipulating economic policies. Valuable reports on Asian industries were also provided. The initiative promoted the most effective collaboration models among Asian countries.
The Epoch Foundation provides sponsorship to the initiative in hopes that it can look at the policies and development of the industries in Taiwan. For now, the MIT Sloan School of Management offers short, medium and long-term executive education programs, for companies to train mid-level to senior executives.

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Founded by 20 major companies in Taiwan in 1991, the Epoch Foundation facilitates Taiwan's industrial development and promotes regional economic prosperity. Since then, it has been working with the best universities around the world, such as MIT, to carry out industry-academia collaboration projects. This has enabled domestic companies to take part in top-notch global tech exchanges by sending senior employees to receive training overseas. With the collaboration with renowned universities, Taiwan's industry enables to transform and invest in new resources to strengthen business grounds.
In 1998, we initiated the Epoch School, aiming at cultivating talents for our society. More than 3,000 students have benefited from our programs, and more than 80 outstanding startups have been established by the alumni. In 2008, we started supporting startups; in 2012, we launched Garage+ to incubate entrepreneurs. Garage+ is the only zero-equity incubator in Asia to support altruism-driven technology start-ups to better the world. Since 2015, the Startup Global Program hosted by Garage+ had received nearly 2,000 applicants from over 70 countries around the world. Thousands of one-on-one meetings have been facilitated with potential investors and cooperation partners, resulting in one-third of these startups having found investors and cooperation opportunities both in Taiwan and abroad. Over the past 30 years, more corporations have been supporting Epoch Foundation. With the services of Epoch Foundation, Taiwan's industry allows leveraging the resources of international top-notch universities, further develops innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as supports cultivating young talents. We aspire to instill living energy to society for its sustainable development and build a better future together.

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Since 2006, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has become MIT's hub for energy research, education, and outreach. Through these three pillars, MITEI plays a catalytic role in accelerating responses to the many challenges facing the global energy system. MITEI's mission is to mobilize the research vision, expertise, experience, talent, creativity and capabilities of MIT to address changing and increased energy needs in an environmentally responsible manner.

In furtherance of this mission, Taiwan's Innovative Green Economy Roadmap (TIGER) Consortium focuses on engaging Taiwan's industry leaders and MIT experts in developing a long-term robust roadmap for Taiwan in its transition to a green economy based on innovative low-carbon technologies.

TIGER Project goals
  • Update Taiwan's industrial leaders on the latest developments in the areas of advanced energy technologies, such as hydrogen, energy storage, advanced nuclear, carbon capture, and others
  • Explore tradeoffs for numerous alternative pathways of the future development of Taiwan's industries
  • Inform members about cutting-edge energy research at MIT

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