| TAIPEI, March
22 Asia Pulse - The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has approved subsidies
totaling NT$59 million (US$1.8 million) to 25 technological development
projects proposed by local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as an effort
to upgrade industrial expertise, MOEA officials said Tuesday.
The enterprises will invest over
NT$100 million of their own funds in the subsidized projects, the officials
said.
Since the MOEA began a program in
February 1999 aimed at encouraging local SMEs to develop innovative technologies,
the ministry has given the green light to private sector applications for
government subsidies on 1,697 technological development projects as of
the end of February.
The government subsidies total NT$3.66
billion, with the incentive measure prompting concerned SMEs to invest
an additional NT$7.75 billion on subsidized projects.
The new beneficiaries include the
Taoyuan County-based Green Hydrotec Inc. -- which has proposed the development
of techniques, machinery and equipment for hydrogen supply modules in portable
fuel cells -- and the Taipei-based U&U Engineering Inc., an integrator
of high-tech microwave, opto-electronic and electronic systems.
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