The Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan (hereinafter EPA) is the authority in charge of the nation’s environmental policies and regulations. Office of Sustainable Development, an affiliated body, is responsible for management and promotion of various eco-friendly technology research projects. The office plays a significant role through programs of support to help collect data, control & evaluate research projects, and make policies. After a slow start, many innovative ideas are implemented as part of a mix of policies. In this vein, environmental policy has embraced the approach of sustainable development where economic and social factors are considered alongside the environment. This paper works on 6 major categories as below: (1) Drawing up Regulations on Review of Environmental Technology R&D Projects and Mid-term Essentials 2011-2014, (2) Conducting Quality Management on Promoting and Advancing Environmental Technology Plan 2009, (3) Marking out Added-value Promotion on EPA Technological Achievement, (4) Handling administrative support on The State-of-the-art Nanotechnology R&D Project 2009, (5) Environmental Technology Innovation R&D Project 2009, (6) Better Format and Layout for Report Preparation on Commissioned Projects. Through implementation of these projects, the aims are to extract the constructive proposition out of industry, authorities, academic as well as institutions, and bring on an assortment of a broad consensus that alternatives to technological innovation, knowledge and regulation be considered wherever possible to deliver policy more efficiently and effectively. The key outcomes from this project to address are: (1) collecting and compiling data of major environmental technology advancements and policies available on websites from industrialized countries, such as the European Union, USA and Canada, (2) revision of “Direction for Research Projects Commissioned by EPA”, (3) amending format and layout for the mid-term/final report on commissioned projects, (4) disposition of key performance indicators (KPI), (5) compiling “EPA Database for Technology Projects & Air Pollution Funds 2008” and editing DVD for the achievements, (6) providing assistance to hold 10 seminars on “The State-of-the-art Nanotechnology R&D Project” and 14 seminars on “Environmental Technology Innovation R&D Project”, (7) explaining The Guide to Grants Appropriation for Environmental Technology Innovation R&D Project, (8) working out the structure for Mid-term Policy Stretegy 2011-2014, holding “the Symposium of Project Coordinators”, “the Symposium of Regulation and Risk Management on the Nanotechnogy Industry”, and “the Environmental Technology Forum”. With the completed work, the present EPA scientific project regulation guidelines were improved, the environmental research project outcomes in prior years have been introduced to the public, and there have been also the transformation from pure scientific reasearches to industrial practices; the “value-adding” object of the EPA scientific researches has been achieved. A complete elaboration covered in this summary can be found in this report, which serves to drive the successive projects more effective.

Planning Management,;Database of Technology Plans,;Forum on Environmental Technology