The Industrial Technology Research Institute’s southern branch campus opened on October 14, 2005, and cooperated with Hsinchu’s main branch by using innovative technology and services, as well as working with the entire area’s industrial development to help upgrade southern Taiwan’s industry as a whole. Lioujia’s branch next to the Wushantou Reservoir has beautiful scenery, and emphasises on open-mindedness, participation, and interaction. Currently, they are developing six central core technologies with the intention of competing with the top international research centers, as well as working with other industries while the research teams and the Ministry of Economic Affairs help the business succeed in southern Taiwan.
The southern branch campus contains centers focusing on domestic Internet, microsystems, laser applications, nanoparticles and membrane applications for humans, and technological treatments. In each category, there has been rapid progress and the research and technology in each field is moving at a steady pace. The southern branch, under the support of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Southern Industrial Joint Experimental Circular Structure Project, invested 75 million NTD into developing microsystems, materials and laser laboratories, as well as completing an Action Wireless Module Experimental Verification Platform, and a Micro Actuator Sensing Element Design and Analysis Platform. They also plan to build a CMOS MEMS design/ micro electrical passive and active elements/ modules and materials with unique abilities in an inspection environment, to complement the existing micro electrical-related equipments..
On the other hand, by using southern Taiwan’s resource sharing center as a platform and combining seven southern universities (National Cheng Kung University, National Sun Yat-sen University, National Chung Cheng University, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, National Chinyi University of Technology), close to 400 pieces of equipment have been completed as the preliminary framework of the no barriers theoretical joint laboratory of microsystems, lasers, and other materials. The institute then combined the actual and theoretical laboratories in order to maximise the potential of the research equipments in southern Taiwan.