“The Plan for the Promotion of Environmental Technology Incubators” is a five-year (2003-2007) project that was launched under the leadership of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the Executive Yuan to facilitate the technological upgrading in the environmental industries and speed up the improvement of domestic environment. Grants are made available for local incubators and companies to develop innovative or workable environmental equipment or technologies. The 4 major categories of this year’s grant scheme are for the “hazardous wastes treatment”, “remediation for soil and underground water polluted sites”, “resource recycling and reuse” and “foreseeing environmental issues”. This year, 12 and 7 incubators applied for the grant separately on March and May. Later, after reviewed by a Technology Review Committee, 8 and 4 incubator teams were approved for granted. In summary, the 8 projects of the 1st announcement have already met their final qualification on November 29th and 30th, while the 4 projects of the 2nd announcement have to wait until next March. Besides, information about running and promoting the incubators has been collected from US, Japan and Europe, which is compared with domestic incubation plans. Moreover, through the comparison above and checking of this year’s project, system review has been made to bring out some improving suggestions for “The Plan for the Promotion of Environmental Technology Incubators”.

Environmental Technology／Incubator／Resource Recycling