Conference: US-Taiwan Workshop on Deep Tech Innovation and Partnerships

本次研讨会更广泛的影响是促进新的高科技创业公司的创建，并增加这些公司成功将新产品推向市场的可能性。深科技公司寻求将基于重大科学和工程进步的技术商业化，并致力于解决我们社会面临的最大挑战，即可再生能源的创造和储存，新半导体技术的进步和发展，以及新生物和医疗技术的发展。通过促进在深度技术创业方面的国际合作，该研讨会将提高美国的经济竞争力，并鼓励加强研究和教育基础设施的发展。最后，讲习班将设法确定战略，鼓励妇女、残疾人和代表性不足的少数群体参与创办高科技初创企业。本次研讨会将利用美国和台湾之间的国际合作，促进深科技公司的形成和发展。美国研讨会的组织者是经验丰富的深科技创业公司创始人和学者，他们是多家深科技创业公司的顾问和董事会成员，并有成功带领初创公司成功退出的记录。研讨会的目标是：(1)更好地了解美国和台湾深科技创业公司面临的挑战和机遇；(2)为美国和台湾的深科技创业公司探索发展生态系统伙伴关系的机会；(3)讨论孵化项目如何更好地促进深度科技合作伙伴关系；(4)分享最佳实践，鼓励成立早期的深科技公司。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impacts of this workshop are to promote the creation of new deep-tech startup companies and to increase the probability that these companies will be successful in bringing new products to market. Deep-tech companies seek to commercialize technologies based on substantial scientific and engineering advancements and work to solve the largest challenges facing our society, namely the creation and storage of renewable energy, the advancement and development of new semiconductor technologies, and the development of new biological and medical technologies. By facilitating international cooperation on deep tech startup creation, the workshop will increase the economic competitiveness of the U.S. and encourage the development of enhanced infrastructure for research and education. Finally, the workshop will seek to identify strategies to encourage the participation of women, persons with disabilities, and underrepresented minorities in the formation of deep-tech startups.This workshop will advance knowledge in the formation and growth of deep-tech companies leveraging international collaboration between the U.S. and Taiwan. The U.S. workshop organizers are experienced deep-tech startup founders and academics who are advisors and board members of multiple deep-tech startup companies and who have a successful track record of bringing startup companies to successful exit. The goals of the workshop are to: (1) better understand the challenges and opportunities facing U.S. and Taiwan deep tech startup companies; (2) explore opportunities for U.S. and Taiwan deep tech startup companies to develop ecosystem partnerships; (3) discuss how incubation programs could better enable deep tech partnerships; and (4) share best practices to encourage the formation of early-stage deep-tech companies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.