Forum of Heroine Prevention and Control

fiLi — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:50:38 -0500

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The Speech to Introduce Minister Wang (王清峰部長) to deliver her keynote at the Forum of Heroine Prevention and Control
July 16, 2008, Tainan, Taiwan

Da Hsuan Feng 馮達旋
Senior Executive Vice President
National Cheng Kung University

(Delivered in Chinese)

Minister Wang (王清峰部長,) Minister Liao (前部長廖正豪,) colleagues from law enforcement communities, colleages from academia, distinguished guests and ladies and gentlemen:

My name is Da Hsuan Feng, and I am NCKU’s Senior Executive Vice President. I am here representing my boss, Academician Michael Lai, President of the University. He is currently attending the conference on universities presidents in Germany and therefore cannot be here physically. However, he wants me to convey to you that he considers the subject matter of this conference one of the most important issues facing humanity in the 21st century.

I am equally elated to see that Minister Wang, despite of her enormously demanding schedule, has made the decision to spend the afternoon with us, and to deliver the keynote speech of the Forum. I also learned that Minister Wang’s father is a well known pediatrician of Tainan. So I am making the assumption that Tainan is in fact her home town. If so, may I say, welcome home!

In the 19th century, Asia Pacific, especially China, had an “Opium War,” it was a war not only nearly broke the bodies of the people, but it nearly broke their minds and the soul of a nation.

Today, the world, and Taiwan is not an exception, is facing 21st century’s “Opium War,” the global onslaught of mind altering drugs on humanity. Today, the world of drugs usage and trafficking are no longer merely opium, but heroine and other more potent drugs. It is profoundly impacting the poor and the rich, the educated and the uneducated, those living in urban environment as well as those in the rural regions. In fact, its devastation has no boundaries. And it is eating into the fabric of humanities.

Ladies and gentlemen, if we cannot totally eliminate the enemy behind this war, then the 21st century can in fact be lost! It can be one of the darkest centuries in human history. To win this war, it will take a colossal, collective and global effort of “education,” and “law enforcement.” Civilized societies and nations must develop workable and sane public policies and strategies to battle this ugly enemy.

It is for these reasons why NCKU is so proud and so humble to be one of the organizers of this truly important Forum. Universities of the 21st century not only should be pushing knowledge envelop, but they should also be the platform for discussions and debates about important public issues such as this one and the launching pads where important and fundamental public policies be made.

It is for this reason that I am so excited to see that our College of Social Science is shouldering this responsibility in helping the community to organize the workshop. I am especially pleased to see that this Forum is held in the National Cultural Value Research Center conference hall (國立文化資產研究中心國際會議廳,) which is outside the campus. This is another manifestation of NCKU as one of the comprehensive and research intensive universities shouldering social responsibilities and embracing the communities around us.

It is my utmost honor and privilege to introduce to you the Honorable Minister Wang to deliver her keynote speech.

Student ARC renewal

fiLi — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:35:49 -0500

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Dear Student,

Immigration Agency in Tainan City would like to remind you that your ARC will be expired soon, so please go to extend your ARC
with your NCKU student ID card. They will give you the extension until the end of September,
and then after you enroll in the new semester in the new academic year, go there again with your ARC and student ID card having the new stamp of the new semester.

Sincerely yours,

Stacy Lin

books for sale

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:44:37 -0500

books for sale

marketing management 12ed. copy 300nt
managing human resource 5th ed. copy(new)400nt
consumer behavior 8 ed. copy 300nt
multinational management 4th ed. copy 300nt
financial management 8th ed. copy 300nt
statistics SBE 600nt
organizational behavior 12ed 600nt

09 13 738 711 phone or TEXT

I will be able to bring any books over to the office.

World Games Kaohsiung 2009

fiLi — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:50:06 -0500

Start: 07/16/2009 - 00:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT+8

From http://www.worldgames2009.tw/english/KOC/QA.asp :

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The World Games has a short history of only 25 years. The World Games was established by 12 non-Olympic sports federations in 1980 in the Netherlands. It was hoped that this event would provide a global competition arena for non-Olympic sports, in order to attract media attention, raise funds, enhance the sports popularity and develop a variety of sports. Same as with the Olympics Games, the World Games is also held at quadrennial intervals. However, as the World Games sports are completely different from the Olympic sports, the World Games is event dubbed the “Olympics of non-Olympic sports”.

Schedule available here : http://www.worldgames2009.tw/english/Venues/schedule.asp

Tainan International Chihsi Arts Festival

fiLi — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:45:37 -0500

Start: 07/10/2008 - 00:42

Timezone: Etc/GMT+8

From http://tn16.tncity.tw/ :

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The Coming-of-Age Celebration
This festival is centered on the traditional coming-of-age ceremony conducted by families to mark the start of adulthood for their 16-year-old sons or daughters. During the time of the festival many cultural events and activities will be staged at numerous temples and historic sites around Tainan.

Sponsor: Tainan County Government
Date: 2008/8/1 - 2008/8/7
Place: cultural area of Tainan Confucius Temple
TEL: +886-6-298-1000

Taiwan's Aim for the Top University Program - Innovation, internationalisation and opportunity (May 2008)

fiLi — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:24:04 -0500

A very interesting read from the Australian Government :

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With a population roughly the same size as Australia, Taiwan has about the same number of students in their university system. With more than four times as many universities as Australia, individual universities in Taiwan have found it difficult to rank highly in well-known international rankings such as the Shanghai Jiao Tong Index. To help lift the international profile of the Taiwanese university system, the Taiwanese Ministry of Education has engaged in an ambitious program to elevate at least one Taiwanese university into the top 100 universities in the world, and to develop elite departments or research centres in different areas of specialisation. Taiwanese universities receiving funding under this program are using it to invest heavily in infrastructure, upgrade teaching and research, and engage in international cooperation. This increased investment in high calibre Taiwanese universities, and the increasingly outward looking focus creates opportunities for Australian universities to form lasting, successful links with top class Taiwanese universities.

The paper is available here : http://aei.dest.gov.au/AEI/PublicationsAndResearch/Publications/Taiwans_...

Fili

Register for INCKU surveys

ejalrizal — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:03:25 -0500

i try to log-in to the limesurvey site via incku. but then it said something about getting password/login from the administrator.
Do i need in to register somewhere before trying to log-in to the site?
Thanks
ejal

BANYAN Research Express Volume 5 Issue 2 is available!

fiLi — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:02:54 -0500

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"BANYAN Research Express Volume 5 Issue 2" is available!
“榕園 - 成大研發快訊” 第五卷第二期已出版！請上網瀏覽。

計中站(CNC Server) ：http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/
研發處站(R&D Server)：http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/

內容索引(Contents list)：

[評論(Commentary)]
* 曾永華 [ 科學與教育的饗宴：2008年6月26-27日第八屆創新資訊與科技國際學術研討會嘉賓雲集成功大學 http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/commentary/c/20080704/1.html ]
(Yonhua Tzeng [ National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) of Tainan, Taiwan Welcome Distinguished Guests to the Eighth Emerging Information and Technology Conference on June 26-27, 2008 with a Series of Scientific and Educational Events : http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/commentary/e/20080704/1.html ])

[文摘(Article Digest)]
* 劉文超 [ 一種新穎具有步階式砷化銦鋁鎵集極層之磷化銦/砷化銦鎵雙異質接面雙極性電晶體 http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/c/20080704/1.html ]
(Wen-Chau Liu [ A New InP/InGaAs Double Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (DHBT) With a Step-Graded InAlGaAs Collector Structure : http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/e/20080704/1.html ])

* 陳虹樺 [ 以病毒誘導的基因靜默策略研究蘭花花部功能基因
http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/c/20080704/2.html ]
(Hong-Hwa Chen [ Strategies for functional validation of genes involved in reproductive stages of orchids : http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/e/20080704/2.html ])

* 簡華麗 [ 學生應付困難作業時優先使用的策略 http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/c/20080704/3.html ]
(Hua-Li Jian [ On Students’ Strategy-Preferences for Managing Difficult Course Work : http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/e/20080704/3.html ])

* 張允崇 [ 懸空晶圓磊晶法成長之氮化鎵材料中光學聲子輔助受激發光之研究 http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/c/20080704/4.html ]
(Yun-Chorng Chang [ Phonon-assisted stimulated emission from pendeo-epitaxy GaN stripes grown on 6H-SiC substrates : http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/e/20080704/4.html ])

* 丁志明 [ 以Fe-Si及Al-Fe-Si催化劑成長奈米碳管 http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/c/20080704/5.html ]
(Jyh-Ming Ting [ Growth of CNTs on Fe-Si catalyst prepared on Si and Al coated Si substrate : http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/e/20080704/5.html ])

[新聞消息(News Release)]
* [ 國際大師齊聚　成大APCOT國際研討會絢爛登場
http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/news/c/20080704/1.html ]
( [ World Class Leading Scholars Gathered at NCKU for APCOT 2008 : http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/news/e/20080704/1.html ])

* [ 成大校長訪中鋼傳授成大經驗印證理論與實務
http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/news/c/20080704/2.html ]
( [ Dr. Michael Ming-Chiao Lai, NCKU President, Visited China Steel Corporation to Impart NCKU Experiences : http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/news/e/20080704/2.html ])

Export results from INCKU surveys

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:44:59 -0500

I am unable to find how to export the survey. I click the button for export the survey it does something and then says done (bottom left of screen) nuy I have no idea where it exported the survey to. Any ideas?

Also, is it possible to do a copy of the data when I get some. Basically what I want is a copy of what is in the database at different times. I can get the info on screen but it would be nice to not have to type the results into my qualitative software tool (copy and paste is much easier-yes I am lazy!).

Please point me in the right direction!

National Museum of Taiwan History

fiLi — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:56:42 -0500

NCKU - 4th course sign-up

fiLi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:47:56 -0500

Start: 09/22/2008 - 00:00

End: 09/26/2008 - 17:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT+8

Quote:

Hi every,

Please note the following deadlines for Fall courses
registration.

1. 1st course sign-up is from 9am July 4th
to 5pm July 11th. This time
is only open to 2nd year students for registration. Please make sure
you log on during this period of time.

2. In order to prevent internet overload, 2nd course
sign-up will be starting from 1pm to 5pm on Aug 21st. This time will open
to senior Master's and PhD students .

3. From 9am August
22nd to 5pm August 29th,
the course sign-up will open to all the students.

4. From 9am
September 22nd to 5pm
September 26th, the system will open to all students for course adding
or dropping.

Let me know if you have any quesitons.

best,

Silvia

NCKU - 3rd course sign-up

fiLi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:47:56 -0500

Start: 08/22/2008 - 00:00

End: 08/29/2008 - 17:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT+8

Quote:

Hi every,

Please note the following deadlines for Fall courses
registration.

1. 1st course sign-up is from 9am July 4th
to 5pm July 11th. This time
is only open to 2nd year students for registration. Please make sure
you log on during this period of time.

2. In order to prevent internet overload, 2nd course
sign-up will be starting from 1pm to 5pm on Aug 21st. This time will open
to senior Master's and PhD students .

3. From 9am August
22nd to 5pm August 29th,
the course sign-up will open to all the students.

4. From 9am
September 22nd to 5pm
September 26th, the system will open to all students for course adding
or dropping.

Let me know if you have any quesitons.

best,

Silvia

NCKU - 2nd Course sign-up - masters and PhD

fiLi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:46:08 -0500

Start: 08/21/2008 - 13:00

End: 08/21/2008 - 17:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT+8

Quote:

Hi every,

Please note the following deadlines for Fall courses
registration.

1. 1st course sign-up is from 9am July 4th
to 5pm July 11th. This time
is only open to 2nd year students for registration. Please make sure
you log on during this period of time.

2. In order to prevent internet overload, 2nd course
sign-up will be starting from 1pm to 5pm on Aug 21st. This time will open
to senior Master's and PhD students .

3. From 9am August
22nd to 5pm August 29th,
the course sign-up will open to all the students.

4. From 9am
September 22nd to 5pm
September 26th, the system will open to all students for course adding
or dropping.

Let me know if you have any quesitons.

best,

Silvia

NCKU - 1st course sign-up

fiLi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:44:31 -0500

Start: 07/04/2008 - 00:00

End: 07/11/2008 - 17:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT+8

Quote:

Hi every,

Please note the following deadlines for Fall courses
registration.

1. 1st course sign-up is from 9am July 4th
to 5pm July 11th. This time
is only open to 2nd year students for registration. Please make sure
you log on during this period of time.

2. In order to prevent internet overload, 2nd course
sign-up will be starting from 1pm to 5pm on Aug 21st. This time will open
to senior Master's and PhD students .

3. From 9am August
22nd to 5pm August 29th,
the course sign-up will open to all the students.

4. From 9am
September 22nd to 5pm
September 26th, the system will open to all students for course adding
or dropping.

Let me know if you have any quesitons.

best,

Silvia

IIMBA Curriculum - MBA and PhD

fiLi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:08:32 -0500

It's a bit hard to figure out exactly from the IIMBA website . So, attached are the curriculums for the NCKU IIMBA MBA and PhD programs updated for the 30th of June, 2008. Always check the IIMBA website to get the latest.

Fili

Envision the World - NCKU leadership about the global village of the 21st century (VIDEO)

fiLi — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:08:48 -0500

Following are two videos of lectures given by university leadership - President Lai and Senior Executive VP Feng - about the global village of the 21st century as part of the EAGLE project lecture series "Envision the World" :

President Lai :

VP Feng :

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Spring 2009：Application Instructions for International Students

fiLi — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:11:29 -0500

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Important Dates
阵 2008.07.01 ~ 10.10 Application Information Available
阵 2008.10.10 Application Deadline
阵 2008.11.15 Admission Roster Announcement & Admission Letters Mailed

Applicants' Eligibility
Degree seeking International Students

Academic Programs for applying
Only certain Masters and Ph.D. programs are open for spring admittance.

How to apply
Applications can be submitted in person or via postal service

Contact
For further information, please contact us at the following:
http://www.ncku.edu.tw/~ooia/eng
Tel: +886-6-2007380 绅 Fax: +886-6-2373551
E-mail: em50951@email.ncku.edu.tw
Address: Office of International Affairs, National Cheng Kung
University, 1 University Road, Tainan City 70101, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Inside-Out and Outside-In: New Vistas for Taiwan Industrial-Academia Collaborations for Economic Development?

fiLi — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:23:07 -0500

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Academician
Engene Wong, Director Wang from NSC, Director Ni from the Ministry of
Education, distinguished colleagues from eight research intensive
universities in Taiwan, from Taipei to Kaohsiung, ladies and gentlemen,
on behalf of NCKU, I want to express my deep gratitude to Eugene for
inviting NCKU to have a place today to talk about this enormously
important subject for Taiwan in particular, and Asia Pacific in
general. It is important both intellectually and economically! Also
if economics can impact politics, than politically as well!

Eugene, while I know the word "germination," or 萌芽, I have never seen
it used in such a poetic manner in describing the discovering and
nurturing of epoch changing technology which may be lurking in Taiwan,
especially in universities. So, congratulations for portraying this
concept in such a succinct manner!

As an administrator of a research intensive university in Taiwan, I
would be remiss in my duty if I did not give a few words of propaganda
about NCKU, although I am sure all of you in the audience know quite a
bit about it, maybe even more than me since I merely parachuted into
Tainan some nine months ago.

Something about NCKU

NCKU has nine colleges and around 50 institutes.

There are two points I like to raise regarding my NCKU "propaganda",
and both have profound implications on our "intellectual output," which
of course are directly correlated to Eugene's germination concept!

First, NCKU has around 21,000 students, half of them are graduate
students. Since we only have 1,250 faculty members, this means that on
the average, each faculty will have to support financially and
intellectually some 8 graduate students. In fact, I have seen that
there are faculty members in some departments with over 20 graduate
students in his/her laboratories. Compare this with Kyoto University,
whose students' population is similar to NCKU, it has over 3000 faculty
members. Hence, it appears that the workload for faculty in NCKU, as
outstanding and as hardworking as they are, is undesirable
intellectually, if not physically.

Second, NCKU annual research dollars income from all sources is around
$80 million (US) dollars per annum. By adding the 5Y50B money into the
equation, also the fact that faculty members are paid 12 months and not
9 months annually and overhead rate is far lower than US universities,
this number could be as high as $100 million (US.)

Let me give you an interesting way to view this number. Since I know
Texas well, I can say that (not including the medical universities such
as M. D. Anderson Cancer Center since they play in a completely
different sandbox,) only University of Texas at Austin, Texas A and M
University have significantly higher research dollars per annum than
NCKU. In population size, these two universities are also significantly
larger. Other research universities, such as University of Houston,
Texas Tech University, and Rice University are roughly the same as
NCKU. Actually, if one recalculates the number by factoring in buying
power, I suspect NCKU's number will be a lot bigger.

What this is implicating to us is that the research output of Taiwan's
research intensive universities are approaching or surpassing many
research intensive State universities in the US. Therefore, from this
view point, I think it is very exciting to note that it is not beyond
the realm of possibility that there are truly epoch changing
technologies that are lurking in the corridors of Taiwan universities,
waiting to be "germinate!" This makes the issue raised by Eugene in
this workshop even more exciting.

So, what is the mission of NCKU? Well, from every corner of the
university, from engineering to medicine to humanities to social
science, I heard that it is consistent with "To be the economic and
intellectual engine of southern Taiwan in particular, Taiwan and Asia
Pacific in general!"

This sounds awfully good. Can we put it into practice? We can only if
we can stimulate economic and intellectual development synergistically.

So let's get into today's subject.

A good friend of mine who is an extremely successful entrepreneur once told me in no uncertain terms that "A business is there to make money, ethically!" There is no "ifs" or "buts" after this statement, he said.

What are the fundamental ingredients of creating a business? They have to have, in my opinion:

a good idea;
a burning desire to do business;
a way to obtain business finance;
a way to turn a prototype into products, which is a euphemism for manufacturing;

a way to sell products successfully, which is a euphemism for marketing;

Now let's examine inside-out from the business ingredients I mentioned above and see how it works.

With this in mind, I propose that there are two ways where academia can
interact with business, or what in Chinese is called 產學.

Inside-Out and Outside-In!

In all the talks of my colleagues today, the underlying philosophy is
inside-out. This is when within the university, we find the best
possible "prototypes" created by faculty, students or what have you,
and then push it outside the university. Now let's examine inside-out
from the business ingredients I mentioned above and see how it works.

A good idea. This is certainly not in short supply
within the university. After all, most research done inside the
university are curiosity driven by smart people.
A burning desire to do business. On the average, this is
a little less abundant inside a university. Generally speaking, we do
not adequately trained and/or education our faculty and students to be
highly entrepreneurially minded.
A way to obtain business finance. This is even more
difficult. Finance for business is very different from obtaining
research funding from the Science Research Council of Taiwan or
National Science Foundation of the United States. Here the
conversation needs to be between faculty and venture capitalists,
angels, investment bankers and so on. Bringing people of such different
background together to have a meaningful conversation, or collaborate
on business, is a highly unusual, if not unlikely scenario.
A way to turn a prototype into products, which is a euphemism for manufacturing. This
is almost impossible inside the university. I know of NO university
that can manufacture anything in large and highly regularized manner,
nor should they. Therefore, seeking the right manufacturers is in
itself a significant business enterprise.
A way to sell products successfully, which is a euphemism for marketing. Marketing
takes on all forms. While there are business or management schools
within universities, to find expertise on a specific technology's
market, and to promote the sales through a sophisticated marketing and
sales channel, is not a simple task within a university. Yet, without
it, the products will simply "sit on the shelf," a most undesirable
business scenario.

These difficulties have collectively been given a very ugly name, and
it is called the "Valley of Death!" Few universities in the US were
able to overcome it without dispensing significant of it own scarce
resources and hiring outstanding professionals. The glaring successes
which are few and far in-between are Vitamin B-12 of the University of
Wisconsin and Gator-Raid of the University of Florida. Although I do
not have data at hand, I suspect that the situation in Taiwan is no
better, if not worse.

I should also mention that there is another issue which universities
"prototypes" need to consider. That is it is the nature of academic
research that faculty tends to work alone, and therefore can create
only a prototype of reduced functionality, if not a single
functionality. However, often technological breakthroughs of today are
more in the form of "internet," where the "we are smarter than me"
concept of Keniche Ohmae is more applicable then of the form of
'semi-conductors," a profound and global economic transformation of
three scientists from Bell laboratories. This means that it is more
likely than not that what is needed is a set of prototypes put
together, as in system integration, in order to have serious commercial
value.

What about outside-in? Well, we are very lucky to be in Taiwan because
the island is not large and now the West coast is connected by a bullet
train, and hence de facto even smaller than before. In addition, since
the technology transformation started in the 70's, a large number of
highly educated and highly trained technologists/entrepreneurs either
return to Taiwan or locally groomed. The island is not short of the
supply of people with entrepreneurial desire burning in their guts and
with good technological business instincts. These are what I refer to
as "outsiders." They are not inside the university, but they usually
are swarming around the university.

Now let's examine outside-in from the business ingredients I mentioned above and see how it works.

A good idea. This is certainly not in short supply from the outsiders. Without a good idea, they do not have a business.
A burning desire to do business. Ditto.
A way to obtain business finance. For outsiders to
survive in the outside, at least initially, they'd better know how to
obtain business finance. Or else, they do not have a business.
A way to turn a prototype into products, which is a euphemism for manufacturing. They must know how to do this. Or else they do not have a business.
A way to sell products successfully, which is a euphemism for marketing. Marketing is fundamental to any business. It is the "soul" of business. Without it, outsiders do not have a business.

It is clear that if we can create a platform for outsiders and insiders
to interact, i.e. by synergistically linking up outsides with insides,
I am convinced that we can go a much longer way for germination than
each doing it on its own.

Finance

Both inside-outers and outside-iners need finance. For inside-outers,
this sort of funding is fundamentally different from those they compete
for in Science Research Council in Taiwan or National Science
Foundation in US. They are funding in the form of venture, angel,
investment bankers and so on. The language deployed in negotiations to
gain access for this kind of funding is fundamentally different from
research funding. Most faculty and students inside the university lack
such training, if at all. For us to develop smoothly the "germination,"
I think universities need to be pro-active in training faculty to have
such skill-sets.

A few months ago, in order to try to comprehend the thinking process of
entrepreneurs housed in either NCKU's incubator or Southern Taiwan
Science Park incubator (under contract from MOFA, they are operated by
NCKU), the director of NCKU's incubator Professor Y. L. Lo, his team
and I had a three hour heart-to-heart meeting with this group of about
30 CEOs.

My impressions of the meetings are as follows.

First, they are all highly sophisticated entrepreneurs. They have solid grasp of their products and the marketability.

Second, they are all frustrated with the VC communities. Perhaps the
most poignant comment made by one very bright CEO is that the Taiwan
VCs are highly "risk averse," and hence there is essentially no
opportunity for startups. I am not sure whether this would be an
accurate blanket description of Taiwan's VC communities, and I am
equally not sure whether US VCs, after the disastrous DOT.COM
era of the last decade of the 20th century is not equally "risk averse"
today. Never the less, I suspect that at least in southern Taiwan, VCs
play little role in "kicking up an entrepreneurial storm."

Third, some of the CEOs appear to hope to, or rely on Taiwan's SBIR
from the Government. I told them that my gut feeling is that while one
should never dismiss such handouts from the Government, here or in the
US, I think it is nevertheless true that such funding is a little too
late and too slow. Speed, I learned when I was in the industry, is one
of the important ingredients of business success.

Fourth, they want to find ways to work with universities beyond merely technological collaborations.

Intellectual Properties

After nine months in one of the research intensive universities in
Taiwan, and after discussions with many experts and faculty in
academia, corporate and major law firm, I think I am probably not too
far from the mark to say that IPs gut level understanding in
entrepreneurs are not ubiquitous.

When I started to learn about IPs about twelve years ago, I was so
impressed by two US senators, Senator Birch Bayh and Senator Bob Dole
who had the great foresight to release ALL IPs developed from research
in universities utilizing Federal government funding will be owned by
the universities. With one ACT, known as Bayh-Dole ACT, US universities
were transformed.

Perhaps this Workshop is a good opportunity for us, as eight of the
research intensive universities in Taiwan, to begin working together to
raise the level of recognition of the importance of IPs in academia.

To this end, I believe that universities must maintain high degree of
flexibility in its treatment of IPs. For example, we must maintain very
flexible and pro-faculty in our license agreements with the inventors.
Also, I believe that all universities must have, if not already, robust
and forward looking university-wide Patent Committees. These
committees must not be "pro-forma" committees, but one must have
significant components from legal as well, if possible, VCs. It is
important to bring to the entire university that IPs, or patents, are
statements of "commercialization," not just another line in one's
resume, as in a publication.

I am so pleased that in NCKU we now have the following:

With the direction from the President of the university, we now
have created an SOP for establishing legal agreement between university
and "clients,"
We have developed a robust internal legal team with significant national and international IP expertise.

Obviously far more needs to be done but these are excellent first steps.

Credibility of Startups

About four years ago, I started to realize that besides funding,
marketing, manufacturing and so on, there is ONE intangible quality
that startups must have, and that is "credibility." In hindsight, it
is obvious.

The world of business is defined by one word and that is "competition."
If you are a small company, albeit a startup or just a small company,
and whether you like it or not, you will be competing with larger
companies. I have seen many such competitions. One way to ensure that
such you have a fighting case is to develop a palpable credibility.
This takes on many forms and it is one area where universities can play
a very significant role.

The reason is university leaders are "public figures" and therefore
connections one develop in this capacity can be wide and deep. By
carefully understanding the wide range of connectivity of society, one
can find ways to create "advisory boards" of startups which will have
incredible value from the "credibility" point of view. I have seen
this worked more than once! When it works, it can be very exciting
indeed. This to me is an excellent example of inside-out and outside-in
collaboration.

ETAP (Entrepreneurs Task Force for Asia Pacific)

Based on the above analysis, strong encouraged and supported by
President Michael Lai of NCKU, who has strong interest in promoting
globalization and collaborations between academia and industries,
Director Lo and I created the FIRST Entrepreneur Task Force for Asia
Pacific (ETAP) so that we can provide some of the issues raised above.
Perhaps the most important realization is that to become globalized, we
need to have global impact of international VCs, people who run
corporations with international perspective, people who understanding
world and Taiwan IP issues, and last but not least, people who are from
the home front who can interact with the international community!

To this end, we now have the following members of the task force.

Mike Devlin, a $600 million US VC known as Pharosfunds.
Mike is a world class VC, and a former highly successful investment
banker of Goldman Sachs of New York City. Mike is also profoundly
interested in Asia Pacific and has a good command of Mandarin and
Cantonese.
Olivia Cheng, a Tainan lady who is CEO of an extremely
successful global medical device company. Ms. Cheng is also a former
highly successful investment banker.
Howard Cheng, a highly trans-Pacific visible IP lawyer who is partner of K. L. Gates, one of the world's largest law firms.
Tai Chein, President of Southern Taiwan University (in
Tainan,) a former CEO of Southern Taiwan Science Park and former Deputy
Director of National Science Council.
George Yen, a highly successful entrepreneur in Asia Pacific, especially in the two straits.

With such a proactive and highly qualified group of individuals,
together they possess enormous breath and depth in understanding and
promoting entrepreneurial spirit in southern Taiwan, my colleagues and
I are confident that they will play an enormous role in the economic
development of Taiwan and Asia Pacific in years to come.

Summary

From this discussion, I hope that the need to alter the culture and
stimulate entrepreneurial spirit within and outside of the university
is obvious to all!

A good friend of mine who was the president of a US university once
told me that it is fundamentally important to "create a glow around the
University and show palpable warmth towards entrepreneurs!"He said that
"unfortunately that universities always project as a "cold" place to
outsiders, and if we do not change this, this thing called
academia-industrial collaboration will only be a mirage."

Is this germination? Yes, but it's only the first step. A lot more work needs to be done!

Thank you very much for your attention.

BANYAN Research Express Volume 5 Issue 1 is available

fiLi — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:20:18 -0500

Quote:

"BANYAN Research Express Volume 5 Issue 1" is available!
“榕園 - 成大研發快訊” 第五卷第一期已出版！請上網瀏覽。

計中站(CNC Server) ：http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/
研發處站(R&D Server)：http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/

內容索引(Contents list)：

[評論(Commentary)]
* 馮達旋 [ 「由學入產」和「由產入學」：台灣產學聯手振興經濟的新展望？ http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/commentary/c/20080627/1.html ]
(Da Hsuan Feng [ Inside-Out and Outside-In: New Vistas for Taiwan Industrial-Academia Collaborations for Economic Development?
: http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/commentary/e/20080627/1.html ])

[文摘(Article Digest)]
* 許育典 [ 在學關係下教育行政的法律監督 http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/c/20080627/1.html ]
(Yue-Dian Hsu [ Legal Supervision of the Educational Administration: From the Perspective of Studentship at the School : http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/e/20080627/1.html ])

* 劉文超 [ 變晶性高電子移動率電晶體撞擊游離特性之溫度效應 http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/c/20080627/2.html ]
(Wen-Chau Liu [ Temperature effect on impact ionization characteristics in metamorphic high electron mobility transistors : http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/e/20080627/2.html ])

* 劉全璞 [ 磁性奈米線的研究與發展 http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/c/20080627/3.html ]
(Chuan-Pu Liu [ Development and investigation of magnetic nanowire arrays in mesoporous matrices : http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/e/20080627/3.html ])

* 李驊登 [ Sn-Ag-Sb-XIn無鉛銲料界面微結構與剪切強度之研究 http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/c/20080627/4.html ]
(Hwa-Teng Lee [ Effects of In addition on the Lead-free Sn-Ag-Sb Solder : http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/e/20080627/4.html ])

* 李德河 [ 台灣西南部泥岩邊坡保護工法 http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/c/20080627/5.html ]
(Der-Her Lee [ A Protection Method for Mudstone Slopes in Southwestern Taiwan : http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/e/20080627/5.html ])

* 張嘉修 [ 以生物反應器操作策略及碳、氮源優化條件促進紫色不含硫細菌之光合產氫 http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/c/20080627/6.html ]
(Jo-Shu Chang [ Feasibility study on bioreactor strategies for enhanced photohydrogen production from Rhodopseudomonas palustris WP3-5 using optical-fiber-assisted illumination systems : http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/articles/e/20080627/6.html ])

[新聞消息(News Release)]
* [ 聯電電子榮譽董事長曹興誠至成大拜會，並應邀為學子演講
http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/news/c/20080627/1.html ]
( [ Mr. Robert Tsao, Honorary Chairperson of the United Microelectronics Corp (UMC), visited NCKU and delivered a lecture to the students : http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/research/news/e/20080627/1.html ])

Management Research Forum

fiLi — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:46:36 -0500

Start: 06/26/2008 - 00:00

End: 06/28/2008 - 23:59

Timezone: Etc/GMT+8

From IIMBA office :

Quote:

Hi there,
The Management Reserach Forum is taking place at the College of Management, NCKU, from June 26th through June 28th. The forum has invited 4 well-known professors from the States for keynote speeches. In addtion to that, scholars will also present papers in the forum. This will be a great chance for everyone to have interactions with these foreign scholars. This time, the College of Management aslo invites Prof. A. Parasuraman whose specializes in Marketing to join this forum. He is also one of the creators of PZB Model. So please do not miss this opportunity if you are interested. I here attached the forum program for your reference.
best,
Silvia

Mansion House Scholarship for Students and Young Business Executives in Financial Services

fiLi — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:14:54 -0500

Information is attached.

Fili

Visa Officer job at ACIO - Taipei

fiLi — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:09:26 -0500

Quote:

The Australian Commerce and Industry Office
(ACIO) is seeking a Visa Officer. The ACIO represents Australian interests in
Taiwan. The successful applicant will work in the Visa Section (known as
Australian Visa Services).

JOB DESCRIPTION

The successful applicant would be required
to:

Provide professional and courteous client service in-person at
the counter and when responding to telephone, email and fax enquiries
Process visa applications within service standards and in
accordance with Australian Government law and regulations
Prepare clear and logical reports and decision records in
English
Prepare correspondence and public information in both English
and Chinese
Assist with a range of administrative and office co-ordination
tasks
Undertake promotional activities
Provide translation and interpreting services
Contribute to the constant improvement in services provided by
Australian Visa Services.

The successful applicant must be able to
demonstrate fluency in both written and spoken English and Chinese.

Other selection criteria also apply. The
complete selection criteria are available on the ACIO website at www.australia.org.tw.

CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

Appointment will
be on a one-year contract basis. A 3 month probationary period applies. The monthly salary is NT$44,324.
Other benefits may include Chinese New Year bonus and
performance bonus.

HOW TO APPLY

Applicants should submit the following:

1.
A current Curriculum Vitae (CV)

2.
A
statement of no more than 3 (typed) pages addressing the selection criteria.

Applications should be submitted via post
to:

Ms Stephanie Forrester

Deputy Director

Australian Visa Services

Australian Commerce and Industry Office

President International Tower

27 F, No. 9-11, Song Gao Road

Taipei 11073, Taiwan

Applications close on Friday 18 July 2008.

Only applications in English, submitted by
the closing date and that address each of the selection criteria will be
considered.

Unsuccessful applicants will not be
notified.

Two written references must be provided at time of interview.

For further information or enquiries about
this position please contact Ms Stephanie Forrester on 02 8725 4288.

NCKU application for interior design

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:58:57 -0500

Hello! I'm sorry to ask the following questions, without
fully researching, but Im in the midst of my exams for my highschool diploma,
again, sorry.

My cousin -She's not Taiwanese- is wondering about
applying to NCKU this year, is it too late? She wants to study interior design
((Is this in the "planning and design college"?)) What kind of papers
do they require?

Thank you for your time

Taiwan: Switzerland of Asia of the 21st century?

fiLi — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:50:48 -0500

Quote:

Taiwan: Switzerland
of Asia of the 21^st century?

Dear Colleagues:

Yesterday, I represent NCKU to make a presentation at
"高等教育論壇" in中興大學, an exciting
forum organized by中興大學 and 長庚大學. Because of time constraint, I skipped the last few
slides.

I was surprised that afterwards several people came to
ask for the details. When I got home, I received several more emails asking me
to elaborate. There is obviously palpable interest in those slides.

So, allow me to elaborate them here.

This part of my talk could be defined by
the title我們要了解台灣在亞洲的地位

Let me take you through my thought process about the
position of Taiwan,
now that I have some personal experience here.

As you can see, as a theoretical physicist, I was
taught to always find a suitable model to guide my thought process.
Throughout this speech, you must have noticed that that was my modus
operandi.

In placing Taiwan
in the Asia Pacific context, I think Europe is
my guiding light.

As I mentioned earlier, the big FOUR in European Union
today, France, England, Germany
and Italy,
were involved in two of the world's bloodiest wars in the 20^th
century, WWI and WWII. It is no wonder that certain amount of profound
distrust of each other exist between them, even today. In the entire 20^th
century landscape, which remains true in the 21^st century, even with
today's European Union as a political entity, to have neutral place among these
four is still a basic necessity, if not a desire. That neutral place is
called Switzerland.

It is no wonder that throughout WWI and WWII, Switzerland
remained neutral, and today it is NOT in the European Union.

Yet, when Europe, certainly dominated by the "big
four" in 1954, wanted to create the world's largest and most advanced research
center, CERN (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire) it did not select London,
Paris, Berlin
or Rome as the
site.

It picked Geneva.

The
above picture, according to CERN's website, is "The gargantuan ATLAS
particle detector is seven stories tall. Physicists hope to use it to answer
fundamental questions about mass, "dark matter" and perhaps even
discover extra dimensions to space-time."

Once again, neutrality, a place where the big four can
feel comfortable, won the day! Indeed, in the second half of the 20^th
century, and I am confident in the 21^st century, Switzerland will continue to play a critical and
fundamental role in the development of Europe
as a political and economic powerhouse for the world.

I think you can see where I am going. There are
of course critical differences between Europe and East
Asia. Yet there are also similarities.

For example, there is also a big FOUR in Asia
Pacific: Japan, South Korea, Mainland China
and Vietnam.
I included Vietnam because everyone know that it is the fastest growing economy
in Asia today, even though it is one country that suffered the most recent
brutal conflict, first with France and later with United States in the second
half of the 20^th century and despite its recent economic
difficulties.

During WWII, the big FOUR in Asia
also engaged in exceedingly bloody conflicts. Distrust, or even hatred,
still exist, in many quarters, although fortunately not all, even to this day.

In this landscape, Taiwan is sort of an oasis.
For example, despite the more than half a century of Japanese colonization,
relations between Taiwan and
Japan
remain tranquil, if not warm.

It is well known that because of the brutality of Japan's colonization of Korea and the brutality of Japan during WWII, among its neighbors, there is
the inevitable deep suspicion of Japan. I cannot foresee the
day where Japan
can decrease or reduce this suspicion by itself. The behavior of the last
Prime Minister of Japan Koizumi clearly demonstrated that it would not be easy,
if not impossible.

Yet, undoubtedly, Asia without strong and/or synergistic
alliance with Japan
would have intrinsic if not fundamental difficulties. Japan, after all, is still a
technological, intellectual and economic marvel and powerhouse of the
world. So I see that this is where Taiwan
could leverage its good relations with Japan
to be the neutral ground where Mainland China,
South Korea and Vietnam can feel comfortable with Japan.

There is one major difference, however between Taiwan and Switzerland
and that is the relationship between the Mainland and Taiwan. In the European
model, Switzerland does not
have a counterpart, unless you consider the Former Soviet Union or now Russia
as Mainland's counterpart. However, in my mind, that is a stretch.
Furthermore, unlike Taiwan
and the Mainland, Russia and
Switzerland
do not share common culture.

In this situation, for Taiwan, there is a powerful and
massive neighbor living right next door. What is even more intriguing is
that this neighbor has the same culture as Taiwan, speak the same language
(even the dialects, Hakka or Ke-Jia and Min-Nan, are identical,) have the same
written language (except for the simplified and complicated version,) eat
identical cuisines (although each region claims that its local cuisine is the
best,) drink the same potent liquor, worship Confucius, and so on and so on and
so on.

So, it seems obvious to me that the most formidable
challenge for Taiwan
to achieve the status of "Switzerland of Asia Pacific" status is to find
a way to co-exist, co-habitat or whatever is the politically acceptable
terminology in an economic and intellectual robust manner, with the Mainland.

If Taiwan
could accomplish that, and more, and there is every reason to expect that it
will succeed because of the inherent "practicality" of the people of Taiwan, then I am confident that the possibility
is extraordinarily high that Taiwan
can become the Switzerland of Asia Pacific in the 21^st century.

Wouldn't that be truly exhilarating in this century
for Asia Pacific?

Thank you.

Da Hsuan Feng

Senior Executive Vice
President

National Cheng Kung University

Tainan,
Taiwan

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