Taiwan into the EU
Positioning Taiwanese materials and process technology for German and EU buyers, and scoping what EU regulatory expectations mean for a product designed for an Asian market.
Corridor
Taiwan and Germany: advanced materials and EU research collaboration
Business development and research links across the European Union, run from Karlsruhe — in the middle of the German materials and engineering research corridor.
This corridor is not primarily a volume trade. It is technology: materials developed in one place that solve a problem in the other, research groups whose work is complementary and who have never been introduced, and licensing arrangements that need structuring rather than selling.
Germany also sets the compliance bar for much of the EU. A product that satisfies a German buyer usually satisfies the rest, which makes it the sensible place to start rather than the hardest place to finish.
Which way the work goes
EU into Taiwan
Scouting Taiwanese technology and manufacturing capability for European companies and research groups, structuring licences and joint development agreements, and staying with the project through scale-up.
The practices this corridor draws on
Who is on the ground
Dr. Muthu Kumar Thangavel
Business Development Partner — Germany
Karlsruhe, Germany
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