The project “The Impetus Task of Environmental Protection Innovative Technology Research and Development” was propelled to help EPA (Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan) manage the promotion and execution of the plans with grants to the teams for the “Environmental Protection Innovative Technology Incubation Center Project” each year. This year, the Environmental Protection Innovative Technology Incubation Center Project accepted the applications of eight teams such as “National Cheng Kung University/ San Ying Enterprises Co., LTD.”, respectively from three categories of the project, “foreseeing environmental issues”, “R&D of innovative environmental inspection”, and “remediation for soil and underground water polluted sites.” The total fund of the project was NT$ 28.634 million (28,634,000), and the grants, NT$ 12.75 million, were 48.98% of the total fund. In average, each project this year received the grant of NT$ 1.75 million. While the Environmental Protection Innovative Technology Incubation Center Project was executed between 2003 and 2007, 14 domestic and foreign patents were granted during the five years. 39 patent applications proceeded simultaneously, too. Academically, the project published 33 periodical articles & 44 seminar papers, attended 10 seminars & 28 exhibitions, held five achievement exhibitions & seven presentations of technology promotion, and received seven prizes for the R&D achievements in total. In terms of industrial mass production, 28 cases of technology transfer were completed to 13 industrial manufacturers in total during the above-mentioned five years; four technologies of mass productions were executed to four industrial manufacturers. When we take the above-mentioned project of realistic mass production as an example, the realistic environmental benefits can be seen in the aspects such as “the effectively increased amount of the recycled spent plastic electroplating”, “the reduced dioxin damages to the environment and human beings”, and “the improved production process from the raw materials to the finished products accompanied by zero waste.” Concrete and practical measures and methods are provided to carry out the environmental policies of EPA. During the data compiling, it was also found that an R&D project focusing on school teachers revealed the solid academic foundation but needed the longer conversion period for technology incubation. The percentage of resource recycling & reuse with innovative technology (such as molecular biology and nanometer technology) at 80% showed the correspondence to the priority policies such as Zero Waste, Resource Recycling Act, and Soil & Groundwater Pollution Remediation Act, which EPA comprehensively propelled in the past five years. That was clearly distinguished from the industrial technology, which Ministry of Economic Affairs, ROC, and National Science Council comprehensively propelled. In addition to the normal management, this year’s project will reinforce the downloads of the charts about all the sub-projects, the up-to-date announcements, and the promotion of the project management, the successful cases & the past achievements by establishing the working platform for the project. This working platform shall help enhance the administration of the data submission by each sub-project so as to improve the quality of the project management. The recommendations for the system review were mainly made for the three aspects of the “project application”, “achievement diffusion”, and “team members.” For the “preparation work before the project application”, the “energy saving & carbon reduction” is recommended to be added as the item granted by the future project. Furthermore, the amendment of the selection information shall reinforce the identification of the incubation oriented project and enhance the conformation of the content of the project application with the achievements of the follow-up execution. For the “effective diffusion of the project achievements”, the agreement signature in advance is recommended to encourage the industrial manufacturers to share their project achievements in public. The chapter about the “prospects for the project achievements” aims to win the public acceptance of developing the environmental technology. To “improve the team members’ ability”, the content requirements about the final report are recommended to reinforce the role that the incubators and the industrial manufacturers shall play.

Environmental engineering, Innovative technology, Incubation, Industrial performance