Ministry of Economic Affairs (Taiwan)

Supports industrial technology growth through grants for startups, manufacturers, and energy-transition firms in priority sectors.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) is Taiwan's national economic ministry, and its industrial technology arm, the Department of Industrial Technology, drives the ministry's research and innovation portfolio. After the 2023 reorganization that renamed several bureaus into administrations, DoIT kept its own R&D and technology-policy remit. Its mandate is to turn industrial technology into economic development, industrial upgrading, and transformation.

MOEA's grant stack centers on SBIR Taiwan and SIIR, both with awards up to NT$10 million, alongside the A+ Enterprise Innovation R&D Refinement Program, the Industrial Energy Technology Program, and CITD. Those routes reach startups, service companies, manufacturers, and energy-transition projects, while the sector scope spans AI infrastructure, hardware, manufacturing, medtech, robotics, semiconductors, energy, IoT and edge systems, food technology, aerospace, transport, materials, and climate work.

DoIT delivers much of this through commissioned research partners and applied R&D centers, including ITRI, DCB, ARTC, MIRDC, FIRDI, TTRI, and SOIC. That makes MOEA a central entry point for companies that need development subsidies, applied research capacity, or bilateral collaboration programs with a clear commercialization path.