Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) hosts the Next Wave Sky Industry Business Opportunity Forum and Taiwan’s Award Ceremony of European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) 2009. The event also marks the establishment of the Global Galileo Industry Alliance (GGIA), which is expected to create a market in NT$3.7 trillion in 2012.
Today (Nov. 2) Industrial Technology
Research Institute
(ITRI) hosts the Next Wave Sky
Industry Business Opportunity Forum and Taiwan’s Award Ceremony
of European
Satellite Navigation
Competition (ESNC) 2009. The event also marks the establishment
of the Global Galileo
Industry Alliance (GGIA).
Thorsten Rudolph, Chairman of ESNC, Johnsee Lee, President of ITRI, Wen-Hsin Chan, Consultant of
Department of
Industrial Technology, MOEA and Christian Stammel, CEO of Navispace AG
discuss
the huge business
opportunities of the Galileo satellite system which is expected
to create a market of NT$3.7 trillion in 2012.
Lee points out, ITRI
looks forward to integrating world resources of related industries
through GGIA in order to bring
new business opportunities, while through
participating ESNC
to induce creative ideas in the applications of
satellite communication technology.
ITRI
will also
provide
incubation and assistance
to Taiwan's
business sector so that local industries will make big contribution in providing
innovative products and
services of world satellite applications.
Lee says, Taiwan's
competitive edge lies in its strong ODM and OEM including such fields
as
semiconductor chip sets, modules, system integration, and terminal
products,
while European
companies
are specialized in critical components and
software capability such as geographic information system (GIS) map
databases,
navigational engine software, and other innovative applications.
GGIA enables Taiwan
and Europe
to complement each other and facilitate more exchange of their
resources and
R&D experiences. ITRI
expects Taiwan
business firms could maintain their
advantages and strengthen developments of innovative applications so
that Taiwan
will
become a part of supply chain of
global satellite industry.
Chan says, EC started
building Galileo satellite system in 2002,
and expects to launch the system in 2013.
The system's higher
accuracy and wider coverage enables it to provide multiple value-added
applications and create new industries and more job opportunities.
Starting from
2006, MOEA initiated cooperation and exchange with EC satellite
industries. With Taiwan's
efforts in satellite technology development, the nation sales
of satellite terminal devices account for 20.3%
of world's market share. Based on Taiwan's
superior deign and manufacturing capability,
MOEA is confident that Taiwan's business firms will develop the
critical
technologies required by Galileo and GPS navigational products, and successfully become one of the
major
suppliers of satellite navigational products in the world.
In April this year, ITRI signed the LOI with AZO, sponsor
of ESNC, to initiate cooperation between Taiwan's
business firms and their partners in the world.
In August, Navispace ordered 10,000 units of Smart
Personal Trackers
from Taiwan's
satellite navigational manufacturer Wonde Proud Technology Co., Ltd.
through
the effort of GGIA. In
October,
Septentrio2 of Belgium visited 12 Taiwan
companies, including Tai-Saw
Technology Co., Ltd., Faraday Technology Corporation, Alchip
Technologies, for
purchasing satellite navigational hardware products and working out
technical
cooperation arrangements.
ITRI's
cooperation with the EC sets
another milestone by inviting Mr. Christian Stammel to introduce the
business
opportunities in the upper, middle, and lower chains of Galileo
project, EC's
Galileo R&D experience.
Mr. Stammel's participation
will consolidate the cooperation of satellite navigational industries
between Taiwan
and the EC.
Company
Introduction
Navispace
AG: It is located in Munich,
which
provides technology marketing
and technology consultation in four major fields, including 1)
geographical
information; 2) satellite navigation; 3) telecommunications technology;
4)
leisure life. The
company endeavors to
transfer new technologies for commercialization, and provide product
launching
planning and comprehensive information exchange platform.
Septentrio: It is
located in Leuven,
Belgium.
Its
operations include R&D, manufacture, marketing and sales of
satellite
navigation products. It
focuses on high end GNSS (Global
Navigation Satellite System, which means Galileo Satellite System)
products. It
offers a wide range of products including
OEM printed circuit
boards to complete systems; single channel to multiple channels; single
GPS to
GPS/GLONSS/Galileo. The company is an important founding member of the
Galileo
project and supplier of key satellite navigation products.