The European Strategic Cluster Partnership SPACE2ID at the European Innovation Week in Taiwan

Under the European Commission’s top priority of driving economic growth by fostering innovation and, in particular, the SME’s innovation capacity and their ability to compete on a global scale, the European Strategic Cluster Partnership SPACE2ID dealing with the promotion of European Space Applications for Global Emerging Industries and Societal Challenges, was represented at the European Innovation Week and Computex Taipei in Taiwan.

The European Innovation Week featured a series of seminars on smart health, smart mobility, smart industry, 5G, nano-electronics and Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. The delegation followed many B2B, B2C and C2C (C as clusters) matchmaking meetings, examined business and investment opportunities and managed to establish contacts with local associations government agencies and companies. During the European Innovation Week, Taiwanese and European clusters came together for business and research cooperation talks.

The SPACE2ID delegation attended also Computex Taipei, Asia’s largest and world’s second-largest ICT show and the world’s leading platform for ICT procurement, new product launches and important technology development announcements. During this influential and important global ICT event, which attracted more than 40,000 international ICT professionals, the European delegation focused on connecting the European and Taiwanese ICT ecosystems.

The European Innovation Week was a joint initiative of the European Commission (comprising DG GROW, DG CONNECT and DG RTD) in collaboration with Silicon Europe Worldwide, GNSS.asia, the Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT), the Department of Industrial Technology (DOIT) of Taiwan, EEN Taiwan (coordinated by TAITRA), the European Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan (ECCT), the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), and the European Cluster Collaboration Platform.