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 Historically, Taiwan has been a nation of innovation with a strong focus on technology. Before China opened its doors to the global economy, many of the world’s manufactured goods were produced in Taiwan. With one of the most startup-friendly business environments, Taiwan boasts strong tech talent and some of the most rigorous intellectual property laws worldwide. This positions Taiwan’s startup ecosystem for success, despite current geopolitical tensions. 

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 Taiwan is home to many large and impressive tech companies, such as Foxconn and Asus, providing it with a unique advantage in hardware-related industries. TSMC, the world's most valuable semiconductor company, stands out as a strategic player in Taiwan’s tech scene. The presence of TSMC illustrates the strategic strength gained from creating a company of such scale, fostering crucial alliances for future prosperity. This also creates a catalyst for the growth of hardware startups, highlighting the impact of industry specialization on global startup success. 

 

 Taiwan has seen a shift towards fostering startups, mirroring the success of its global corporations. Government organizations like Taiwan Tech Arena are investing heavily in developing the country’s startup ecosystem, with initiatives like the Employment Gold Card and Entrepreneur Visa aimed at attracting foreign talent. Programs like [Startup Island TAIWAN](https://www.startupislandtaiwan.info/) and the [Next Big Startup Initiative](https://www.ndc.gov.tw/en/nc_8455_37158) are instrumental in creating a national brand for Taiwan’s startup ecosystem, showcasing its potential on a global scale. 

 

 In order to compete on a global level, Taiwan's entrepreneurs are focusing on international integration of their solutions. The country’s small local market pushes startups to think globally, resulting in success stories like Appier, Taiwan’s first digital unicorn. With the presence of tech giants like Google and Microsoft, as well as successful exits like Gogoro and Just Kitchen, Taiwan’s tech ecosystem is thriving. The hosting of [Computex](https://www.startupblink.com/startup-ecosystem/taiwan), one of the world’s largest computer and technology shows, in Taipei City further solidifies Taiwan’s position as a tech hub. 

 
 As Taiwan continues to implement policies to promote entrepreneurship, a shift in mentality is needed to encourage potential entrepreneurs to take risks and embrace failure as a stepping stone to success. The country’s appeal is growing, evident in leading tech figures like Steve Chen, co-founder of Youtube, and tech thought leader Ben Thompson from Stratechery, choosing to base themselves in Taiwan.

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ECOCO stands for ECO COin, a points system designed with circular economy in mind, to make doing things for the environment fun and rewarding, allowing for more people and companies and organizations to work together to do good for our planet.

YajanTech is an AR/VR integrated provider. We focus on kernel software engine design and resource provider.

Manta Technology is a software company that provides digital services and innovative services through smartphones.

Manta Technology

Standard Cable is a global leader in providing power and signal transmission solutions to the commercial, industrial and home electronics and appliance sectors.

Standard Cable MX

Ciel & Terre specializes in deploying floating solar power plants. 

Ciel & Terre

Matthew's Choice produces sugar-free fresh milk yogurt, using pure fresh milk and exclusive lactic acid bacteria to create the top sugar-free yogurt. By carefully selecting local ingredients, friendly environment and respecting food, we will bring health and deliciousness to consumers.

Matthew's Choice

Leadgene Biomedical, Inc. is a company specializing in immunotechnology and especially in the technologies of antigen prediction and design and the development of monoclonal antibody and protein.

Leadgene Biomedical

In the first half of 2019, a fleet of 100 swarm flying performance aircrafts will be completed, and commercial performances will be carried out in various places in Taiwan. At the same time, a new generation of performance drones will be designed, with the goal of exceeding 300 swarm flying performances.

Taiwan Swarm Innovation Inc.

Since its establishment in 2013, the company's emphasizes on the integration of green energy technology and life and develops five system packages: (1)Green Money (2)Green Space (3)Green Power (4)Green Monitor (5)Green Farm

Green Shepherd

APh ePower is the first start-up company to commercialize aluminum-ion batteries with investment in materials preparation, production, and research and development, and we have established world-leading technical capabilities.

APh ePower

BAMS (Bellwether Advanced Mobility Solutions) is a company actively taking on exciting projects and helping clients develop advanced technologies and products. 

BAMS

Wireless audio and video transmission / Smart Home system are our main techniques.

GLORYKYLIN INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.

Genovior is a dedicated CDMO focus on process development, scale up, formulation development, and productivity optimization under PIC/S GMP for our customers worldwide. Our one-stop services conveniently provide effective and efficient solution and our non-competition policy provides maximum security and protection in IP for our clients.

Genovior BioTech

A platform that can match people who need work outsourcing with those who can undertake outsourcing work.

Pardn Co., Ltd

Medical Vision improves the efficiency of current treatment and care of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. This system allows the physician to determine the severity of upper gastrointestinal bleeding and determine the timing of performing endoscopic surgery.

MediVision Tech

MichelBru is a weekly meal plan brand, delivering a box of 5 meals, to cover the needs one week.

MichelBru

SwiSys is an automotive electronics and communication solutions focused on CAN Bus, OBDII and SAE J1939 standards. We focus on vehicle safety challenges and retrieve the control signals over the CAN bus and Lin Bus protocols towards multiple vehicle models .

SwiSys

With the concept of prevention is better than cure, it provides sports training for middle-aged and elderly people, emphasizing "health, smile, continuation", and combines cross-disciplinary teachers such as gerontology research, senior education, sports health care, sports and leisure to create customized sports courses

liyao-power

Trillion-Sr focuses on vibrate signal processing technology, vibrate analysis, bearing diagnosis, the system integration of embedded cloud system design and industrial automation monitor service.

Trillion-Sr International Corporation

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 ishare technology co.

Specialized in the sales and application of CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) computer-aided engineering analysis software and engineering coaching in the plastic processing industry

WISEVER INNOVATION CO., LTD.

The Best Digital Oral Surgery and Orthodontics Solution Provider

Choice Biotech

GEcoll Biomedical is the first gene editing application company in Taiwan with the frontier technology "Large-Segment gene editing, LS-Gene Editing”. Combining LS-Gene Editing with synthetic biology, GEcoll aims to produce safe and non-allergic biomaterials suitable for tissue repairing and regeneration. 

GEcoll Biomedical

WEBRIDGE develops an intelligent wealth management information system to provide individual investors with intelligent tools for wealth management big data analysis

WeBridge

Merry Life Biomedical develops Alzheimer's treatment drugs

Merry Life Biomedical

ABIS Aerogel develops and manufactures Silica Aerogel. Aerogel has the key characteristics of porosity, low thermal conductivity, low dielectric constant and low sound velocity. It is used as the additives to enhance the properties and values of construction materials, functional composite materials, or low di-electric materials. 

ABIS

Our primary mission is to implement evidence-based approach in developing microbiome-based dietary supplements with a secondary mission to facilitate new discoveries on microbiome-related adjuvant therapy for cancer patients during their cancer treatments.

Fecula Biotech

The company's products: natural vegetarian health products, in order to provide consumers with peace of mind and peace of mind. All of which are based on the premise of edible natural herbal vegetarians, giving people a sense of health and safety. 

Dingxin Biotechnology

Pao-can Biomedical is dedicated to the processing of local crops and Chinese medicine materials. So far, the company has developed products such as healthy Chinese medicine tea bags, meal packs, Chinese medicine cold drinks, healthy dried fruit and candies, Chinese medicine essence drinks, and herbal spices. 

Pao-can Biomedical

As the innovation hub of the Asia-Pacific region, Taiwan is renowned for its outstanding high-tech R&D capacity, highly-trained professionals, and thriving networks of entrepreneurs which enable our  startup ecosystem to achieve steady continuous growth.

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In the recent years, Moscow has become a gravity centre for the most talented people not only from Russia and Eastern Europe, but from all over the world. Such concentration of professionals affirms Moscow as one of the global “cities of the future”, world centre for the development of breakthrough technologies, particularly in IT.

The Moscow Agency of Innovations was established to create a truly favorable environment for the advancement of technology in Moscow.

2016

The Skolkovo Innovation Center and Skolkovo Foundation was signed into law with a goal to goal is to create a sustainable ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation.

2010

Avito, a classified ads website and now a unicorn, first went online.

2007

The Moscow Seed Fund, a VC which invests in see and pre-seed startups, was established.

2005

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2024 National Rank and Change	City	Global Rank & Change	Total Score	Quantity Score	Quality Score	Business Score
1st⁰	Taipei City, Taiwan	45th⁺¹	17.203	2.72	11.41	3.08
2nd⁰	Hsinchu, Taiwan	132nd⁺¹¹	5.218	0.13	2.67	2.42
3rd⁰	Taoyuan City, Taiwan	325th⁺¹⁶	1.124	0.05	0.55	0.52
4th⁰	Tainan City, Taiwan	369th⁺⁷⁷	0.968	0.00	0.52	0.45
5th⁰	Taichung City, Taiwan	528th⁺⁴	0.434	0.16	0.08	0.20
6th⁰	Kaohsiung City, Taiwan	587th⁺¹⁵	0.345	0.14	0.04	0.16

Tainan City Startup Ecosystem Comparative Analysis

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