Explorium HK had its 8th Tech Safari to Taiwan weeks ago, which the purpose of the safari was to understand better the local startup and innovation ecosystem in Taiwan. Through their time here, here are some of their learnings.
- Taiwan is filled with technology, resources and talents.
- In Taiwan, it’s all about AI, Cloud & Blockchain.
- Taiwan is leading in market opportunity.
As smart phone user penetration is more than 90% here, this also make a huge market opportunity for rising tech companies.
- Taiwan, is where the talents at.
Taiwan’s universities are constantly ranked among the top in terms of generating AI research results. Statics showing, Taiwan’s universities graduate approximately 10,000 computer science and information system management grads and 25,000 electrical engineers graduates a year, which truly speaking to the country’s heritage of semiconductor and hardware manufacturing.
In early last year, Yahoo, Google, IBM and Microsoft have all announced their expansions in Taiwan for R&D centers, looking up to 600 talents in total.
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To read more https://medium.com/@explorium.hk/the-wakanda-of-asia-ba3423027a34
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By Izza Lin,
Recruiting Master
