7.4.5) Assistance to low-carbon innovation
Provide assistance for start-ups that foster and support a low-carbon economy or technology.

The TKU Champion Incubation Center provides regularly counseling for startups that apply low-carbon economy or technology, assists resident businesses in applying for government projects, provides information on loans and startup funds, and develops environmental software development projects. The incubation center also offers courses to help startups with fundraising and marketing, and facilitates collaboration between startups and our university's faculty in academia-industry partnerships.

The university's Office of Research and Development oversees 10 research centers and a publishing center, responsible for university-wide industry-academia collaboration, patent applications and maintenance, technology transfer, and startup incubation.
In fostering and supporting startups related to the low-carbon economy or technology, our university's efforts include:

1. Collaborating with the resident company Hua Jing Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., we jointly assist industrial park companies in applying for the “Diagnosis & Guidance of Upgrading, Transformation, Smartification, and Low Carbon Transition” and the “Smartification and Low Carbon Case Subsidy” projects from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industrial Bureau. With the carbon footprint verification and decarbonization technology of Hua Jing Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., we help industrial park businesses transition to low-carbon operations.

2. The teachers of the water resources and environmental engineering department of our school have a total of 5 patents in the field of "waste incineration and fly ash recycling” and cooperate with environmental protection startups to transfer technology to assist the development of low-carbon economy and technology start-ups.
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3. The Research and Development Office assists the emerging green energy company KILOWATT Co., Ltd. in acquiring the necessary advisory resources, while facilitating the effective matching and integration of green energy-related resources.

4. In August 2023, our university obtained the qualification as a counseling unit for the Industrial Decarbonization Guidance Project by Industrial Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs. The Research and Development Office has arranged a team of specialized faculty members to counsel several companies within Pingzhen, Dayuan, Hsinchu, and Guishan industrial areas, assisting them in their low-carbon transition applications.
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