MICROSOFT ESTABLISHES TAIWAN
Five years after Microsoft established its Microsoft Technology Center in Taiwan, it has established its second R&D center in Taiwan: the Microsoft Innovation Center, in the Nangang Software Park. The new center will concentrate on software engineering and new-generation Internet applications and will assist its Taiwanese industrial partners in boosting new-generation Internet application innovations along with the implanting of software engineering, thus helping them to acquire the ability to receive international orders.
Microsoft established its first Southeast Asian R&D center in Taiwan in 2003. In the five years since then the company has supported the government’s efforts to develop a knowledge economy through concrete investment projects, generating a production value of NT$ 4.6 billion and establishing Taiwan’s position as an Asia-Pacific leader in information software and services.