Academia-Industry Collaboration Center

Startup@NCHU Innovation Center

I am interested in a spot at the Startup@NCHU Innovation Center. How can I apply?

1. Eligibility check

At least one member of each startup team must be an NCHU faculty member, student, or graduate within the last five years. This individual must be a core member of the team.The startup team must have a creative product prototype or innovative business model and have completed a preliminary startup proposal, or possess an entrepreneurial technical team with tangible R&D results (such as patents and technical know-how) that can be readily commercialized.

2. Preliminary inquiries

The startup team representative makes a preliminary inquiry with the Center to determine the team’s eligibility and whether space is still available.

If everything goes well, the startup team can begin to prepare the application documents.The startup team representative may call or visit the Center in person to make the necessary arrangements.

1) Application for the 3F Co-Working Space: Individual application form and team application form

2) Application for the 2F Entrepreneurship Offices: Business proposal3. Please email the application in electronic format to the Center (startup@nchu.edu.tw) and we will conduct a preliminary review of your application when it is received.

Trademark Management Regulations

1. Application for a new trademark:Units that wish to apply for a new trademark must complete a trademark registration application and present it to the Academia-Industry Collaboration Center, which will then submit it to the Trademark Committee for review. If a trademark is deemed necessary, the Academia-Industry Collaboration Center will submit an official application to the competent authority. All fees associated with the application, issuance, and maintenance of the trademark will be borne entirely by the applying unit.

2. NCHU trademark licensing:Use of the University’s emblems, logos, and trademarks require licensing. NCHU may seek damages and issue a cease-and-desist order against any unauthorized use of its emblems, logos, and trademarks.

1) Non-commercial use:Only NCHU units, faculty/staff/students, clubs, and alumni associations may request non-commercial use of the University’s emblems, logos, and trademarks. Except for use on business cards and official documents/letters, which requires no application, users must submit a non-commercial use license application and affidavit to the Academia-Industry Collaboration Center for approval, and they may only use such emblems, logos, and trademarks within the scope of license.

2) Commercial use:Users must submit a commercial use license application and proposal to the Academia-Industry Collaboration Center. The Trademark Committee will determine the scope of the license upon review. The associated costs will be borne by the applicant (if they are not affiliated with NCHU). Each application requires a review fee of NT$20,000 to be paid by the deadline indicated on the written notice issued by the University.

Patent Applications

1. Pursuant to Article 2 of the University’s Regulations Governing the Management and Utilization of Research and Development Outcomes, the intellectual property rights of research and development (R&D) outcomes produced by faculty members and students using NCHU resources belong solely to the University unless otherwise stipulated in a separate contract or other applicable regulations. Faculty members who wish to apply for a patent must do so through the Division of Patent and Technology Transfer in accordance with internal regulations.

2. Patent fees may be shared in different percentages with different royalty distribution ratios:

Cost sharing scheme

Cost borne

By researcher

Cost borne

by NCHU

Royalty assigned to researcher

(department outcomes)

Royalty assigned to researcher

(non-department outcomes)

Scheme Ⅰ

40%

60%

32%

40%

Scheme Ⅱ

100%

0%

64%

80%

3. The University only provides funding for invention patents, the guidelines for which are as follows:

The University may subsidize up to three R.O.C. patent applications per researcher per year (Plan I).

Those who meet both of the following requirements are eligible for subsidies for patent applications in foreign territories:

1) R&D outcomes represented by the researcher have undergone a technology transfer by the University with a value of NT$1 million or more.

2) The patent application has been reviewed by two or more experts in writing and has been approved by the Patent and Technology Transfer Promotion Committee.

The cost sharing scheme will be the same for both domestic and foreign applications for the same patent.

Technology Transfers

1. Assignment of technology transfer royalties:

Royalty distribution shall be processed in accordance with Article 7 of NCHU’s Regulations Governing the Management and Utilization of Research and Development Outcomes.

Unless otherwise stipulated in a separate contract or other applicable regulations, royalties from the management, maintenance, utilization, and promotion of intellectual property rights derived from NCHU R&D outcomes will be distributed in the following manner after the necessary deductions are withheld in accordance with the Government Scientific and Technological Research and Development Results Ownership and Utilization Regulations:

Necessary costs fully borne by researchers or a third party with no contribution by the University (Article 5, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 1): Researcher 80%–NCHU 20%.

Necessary costs partially borne by the University (Article 5, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 3): Researcher 40%–NCHU 60%.

If a patent is licensed to multiple targets through non-exclusive licenses, royalties for the first of such licenses will be distributed in accordance with the preceding two subparagraphs. The University’s distribution percentage will be reduced by 10% for each subsequent license until it reaches 20%, whereas the researcher’s distribution percentage will increase by 10% for each subsequent license until it reaches 80%.

Liquidated damages and compensation obtained by the University for its R&D outcomes due to a breach of contract or infringement will be distributed in the following ratio after deducting expenses paid to legal counsel and professional consultants: NCHU 100%.

Unless otherwise stipulated in a separate contract or other applicable regulations, royalty distribution ratios will remain the same even in the event of a researcher’s departure from the University due to separation, retirement, or death. If a researcher is unable to claim royalty payments themselves, their legal heir or a beneficiary designated in their will may do so on their behalf.

2. Methods of R&D results publication and release by faculty members:nFaculty members with R&D outcomes (patents and technical know-how) may submit an R&D Outcome Survey Form to the Division for announcement and promotion through various channels with the ultimate goal of finding opportunities for potential applications, transactions, collaborations, and matchmaking.