ESADE signs cooperation agreement with Taiwan National University

Spanish business school ESADE welcomed representatives from the Taiwan National University (TNU) to Barcelona earlier this month, following which an agreement was signed between ESADE and the Taiwan National University Center of Innovation and Synergy for Intelligent Home and Living Technology. The two institutes agreed to foster academic cooperation through research into learning support, the exchange of information and academic publications and the promotion of Faculty visits between both centres.

Last month ESADE welcomed a Taiwanese delegation comprising ten prominent members from the Science and Technology Advisory Group (STAG) of the Taiwanese Government Cabinet, the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), the Institute for the Information Industry (III) and National Taiwan University NTU.

The group took part in an ESADE-organised workshop designed to showcase the best practices in Open Innovation platforms and Living Labs in Catalunya.

The workshop featured ESADE faculty members Alfons Sauquet, Jonathan Wareham and Esteve Almirall, as well as Josep Miquel Piqué of 22@, Pilar Conesa and Joan Batlle of Barcelona City Council, Daniel Marco from Generalitat de Catalunya, Joan Mas of  BDigital, Andreu Català and Ulises Cortés of UPC, Raquel Navarro of Barcelona Media and Leonard Janer representing TecnoCampus Mataró.

The Taiwanese delegates invited ESADE and the other institutions to play a role in defining the i-Taiwan project through participating in a large-scale workshop to be held in Taipei.

ITRI is working alongside the Taiwanese government and in collaboration with a further 120 R&D institutes in Taiwan, as director of the pilot scheme i-236 on Smart Living Technology – Applications & Services Project. This will be developed in ten real situations, including Smart-Towns and Information Parks across Taiwan and aims to involve around one million citizens in sampling twenty types of Smart Living products and services.