MIRDC Holds Innovative Tech Matchmaking to Help Taiwanese Medical Instrument Makers Explore Market

To help Taiwanese medical instrument manufacturers explore markets more effectively, the Metal Industries Research & Development Centre (MIRDC), a government-funded R&D institute, held the Medical Instrument Innovative Technology Matchmaking & MOU signing in early July in  Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, from which the MIRDC says positive results were achieved as before.

Organized by the Southern Taiwan Science Park Administration, the event attracted about 80 industry experts, including I.S. Kou, ex-chairman of the Taiwan Medical And Biotech Industry Association (TMBIA) and Frank Huang, TMBIA's chairman, both of whom were invited to share experiences in branding, marketing, creating successful startups, and troubleshooting before and after product launches.

Dr. P.Y. Lee, vice-superintendent of healthcare at Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, and Dr. J.J. Wang, vice-superintendent of education at the Chi Mei Medical Center, were also invited to address topics as the latest technologies and current end-user demand in the global clinical trial market.

The MIRDC reports that the increasingly challenging global market has motivated the Taiwanese government to bolster the development of the biotech and medical industry, while operators are focusing on developing higher-end products. The event targeted promoting industry-academia partnerships to help domestic medical instrument manufacturers to develop  technologies and trend-setting products that create business opportunities.

The event also saw the signing of MOUs (memorandums of understandings) between the MIRDC and local sterilization labs and inspection companies, including China Biotech Corporation, Super Laboratory Co., Ltd. and Medgaea Life Science Ltd., to provide services on inspection and sterilization experiments to medical equipment manufacturers in the Southern Taiwan Science Park. MIRDC says such MOUs enable local makers easy access to more economic, effective testing and inspection services, hence achieving shortened  R&D-to-product-commercialization time. (SC)