TAITRA Announces TAIPEI INVENT Show

Business Wire, Oct 11, 2007

TAIPEI INVENT Wraps up Eureka Week!

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- TAIPEI INVENT 2007 (2007 Taipei Int'l Invention Show & Technomart) wrapped up four days of wonder & eureka (I've found it!) on Sept. 30th. This rare venue opened a fresh dimension in a new realm with hundreds of inventions staged before 50,000 visitors. Scouting the show were buyers from nations as diverse as Japan, Canada, Germany, Korea, Malaysia, USA, Spain, South Africa, and Australia etc. who came to source and buy.

To make it happen the best brains from the sharpest organizations in Taiwan worked months to network the inventing world. Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), Ministry of National Defense (MND), Ministry of Education, Executive Yuan's National Science Council (NSC), and Council of Agriculture (COA) organized exhibitions. Its planning was done by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) at Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), Industrial Development Bureau (IDB), Department of Industrial Technology (DOIT), Small and Medium Enterprise Administration (SMEA), Bureau of Energy (BOE), and State-Owned Enterprise Commission (SOEC) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

The hands-on exhibition work was done by TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade Development Council), ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan), and the Taiwan Technology Marketplace (TWTM) Service Center. Some 600 inventors, entrepreneurs, government researchers and developers participated, using 866 booths and displaying over 1000 inventions. The venue was packed with visitors and strong interest and enthusiasm.

Foreign Buyer Turnout Soars by 15%

The number of foreigner buyers soared 15% over the previous 2006 show. In addition, the media from Germany and Australia strongly applauded the fact that this exhibition was able to provide abundant business opportunities.

TAIPEI INVENT 2007 profiled inventions, technologies and patented products from every facet of industry. Most creations were shown in three of the exhibition areas of "Inventive Competition," "Technology Marketplace" and "National Invention Award Winner."

It was here where more than 400 invention groups and individuals used 544 booths in the "Taiwan Invention Products and Foreign Invention Products Pavilion" to display a variety of creative and practical products that "wowed" everyone from aspiring Edisons to corporate representatives.

Some Hot Inventions

Here are a few of the works on display:

* A full array of cutting edge suntan lotions and skin care products

* Eco-friendly home-use E-monitored automatic budding machines

* a 180[deg] foldable extendible fly swapper

* a roaming alarm clock

* an anti-snoring device

* a nicotine filtering pipe

* an anti-robbery self-protection purse

* non-flammable air floating lights

* and MORE!

In addition there were 13 theme areas, namely the "Technomart": "agriculture Pavilion," "National Defense Pavilion," "Ministry of Education Pavilion," "National Science Council (NSC) Pavilion," "R&D Alliance," "Small and Medium Enterprises Hall," "Resources & Energy Pavilion," "Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) State-owned Enterprise Commission Pavilion," "the Patent Pavilion," "Institute for Information Industry (III) Pavilion," "Innovation Alliance Pavilion," "Innovation Alliance for Traditional Industry Pavilion," and "Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) Pavilion."

More than 180 organizations participated who presented more than 900 technologies or patents. 20 international organizations including General Electric, UC San Diego, University of Washington, Cornell University, Waseda University, Nihon University, Kansai University, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo Metropolitan Small Business Center, technology trading platforms yet2.com and Tynax participated and demonstrated advances in camera lens technology, high definition 3G image compression engines, energy saving device for GPS cellular phones, improvements in light absorption efficiency for solar panels, and nanotechnology used on infra-red stoves, semi-conductors, medical treatments, and Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Engineering.

In addition, "4D flying mouse technology" and other optoelectronic communication technologies were displayed at the "Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) Pavilion." Wimax and health care technology was displayed at the "Institute for Information Industry (III) Pavilion," and many more exciting displays were shown by the 13 non-profit research organizations supported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), National Applied Laboratories, National Research Programs, and 60 Universities and Graduate Schools, which are supported by National Science Council (NSC) and the Ministry of Education. All these organizations sent their best people and displayed recently developed advanced technologies.

In the area of defense industries, Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology Armaments Bureau, M.N.D., Materiel Production and Manufacturing Center, Armaments Bureau, M.N.D., National Defense Medical Center, and The Chung-Cheng Institute of Science and Technology in the "National Defense Pavilion" displayed about 60 patents.