ICOS at the 26th International Conference on Industrial Technology Innovation

AENEAS Technical Director, Patrick COGEZ, was invited to present the European microelectronics funding landscape and the role of industrial associations in its governance at the 26th International Conference on Industrial Technology Innovation, wich took place in Taipei on October 16th and 17th. This gave him also the opportunity for side meetings with the Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TSRI) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). The side meeting with TSRI was actually initiated thanks to previous contacts established during the ICOS workshop in Warsaw earlier this year.

During these meetings, Patrick COGEZ had the opportunity to present the ICOS project, and most notably the recent report D3.3, Recommendations for International Research Cooperation, which lists the topics which were identified by the ICOS experts as most promising for R&I collaboration between Europe and other regions of the world. He invited the Taiwanese experts to have a look at this topic list and indicate the ones of most interest for them. Without waiting for this formal feedback, Dr. COGEZ already identified several topics which have been mentioned as strategic directions for future technology development by the Taiwanese speakers during those days: chiplet-based stacking technology and heterogeneous integration, advanced packaging, new materials to reduce the dependence on rare earth materials, enabling technologies to empower Artificial Intelligence at the edge.

On top of providing inputs for the definition of the topics for future EU-Taiwan R&I cooperation, the visit allowed to get a better understanding of Taiwan’s Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) System, as well as gathering information on new initiatives such as the Southern Taiwan Silicon Valley Program, which will prove very useful to enrich the final deliverables of the ICOS project.