Leading Company Needs
Anonymized R&D, production and market needs from leading companies, so startups and SMEs can judge whether to propose a solution.
Each entry in the directory shows only the industry, need type and a short description. Company names are withheld. To learn more, request a referral through the form; we confirm interest on both sides first.
Three pillars of the solving process
Cross-domain integration
A cross-domain team clarifies the problem, pools resources and proposes a workable solution.
Whole-chain delivery
One track from understanding the need and shaping a concept to joint development and market validation.
Specialist resources
Links to research institutions and advisors, building a network for co-creation, co-research and shared prosperity.
Four steps from challenge to solution
Submit the need
Complete the request form and a coordinator will be in touch.
Focus the scope
Work with the company to sharpen the need and define the challenge.
Connect suppliers and resources
For challenges posed by larger companies: supplier selection and one-to-one talks, then POC/POB validation.
Deliver and contract
Approved suppliers sign contracts under the applicable rules.
Able to help with one of these?
Use one form to share your background and interest.
What this matching service is, and who uses it
Corporate needs is the entry point where a company can pose an R&D, process or market challenge to TINAI, the Taiwan Industrial Network of Alliances for Investment. The four industry alliances gathered by the National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association, R.O.C. (Semiconductor, Automotive Components, Digital Industries and Health & Wellness) form a cross-domain team to respond. The directory is anonymous. It shows only the industry, the type of need and a short description, never the company name.
There are two kinds of user. Those who pose a challenge include overseas companies and large Taiwanese companies looking for suppliers or technology partners in Taiwan. Those who respond are startups and small and medium-sized enterprises. The seven entries now in the directory are examples that show the fields each need will carry.
How a company submits a need
The first step is to complete the request form, after which a coordinator will be in touch. On the collaboration request form, choose the strategic partnership path to describe a real R&D, process or market challenge. The form asks for the request path, organisation, related alliance, direction (a need or an offer), capability, region and mode of collaboration, and a description of up to 2,000 characters. The page also states that submitting is not a commitment to match, invest or approve anything.
The form takes context only. It does not accept attachments, financial data, eligibility documents, confidentiality agreements, identity documents or non-public files. To match the fields, a submitter may find it useful to prepare four things: the problem to be solved, the industry and process position, the form of cooperation sought (technology, market expansion or funding), and the region and timetable. This is our suggestion, not a form requirement.
What becomes public is clearly bounded. Only an approved summary of the need is published. Contact details and internal assessments are not. Whether a summary may be published is the submitter's choice, made by an optional checkbox. Before anyone is introduced to anyone else, both sides must agree, and the platform never contacts a party automatically.
Focusing the need and selecting suppliers
The second step is to focus the need: working with the company to define the scope of the challenge, so that suppliers know what problem they are being asked to solve. This step comes before supplier selection.
The third step connects suppliers and resources. For challenges posed by larger companies, this means supplier selection, one-to-one talks and validation through proof of concept or proof of business (POC/POB). The fourth step is delivery and contracting: approved suppliers sign contracts under the applicable rules.
Public material does not state selection criteria, the time each step takes, who bears costs, the scope of validation or contract terms. These must be confirmed with a coordinator after first contact. This page does not guess at them, and a company should not assume that any one of them is settled until it has been told so in writing.
How the alliances solve a challenge
The mechanism pairs a company's challenge with an alliance's solution. A company submits a real need to the platform. The four alliances form a cross-domain team that brings together upstream and downstream resources and innovation capacity. The team's aim is a complete solution that can be procured, deployed and exported. The mechanism rests on three pillars: cross-domain integration, whole-chain delivery from understanding the need through concept, joint development and market validation, and specialist resources from research institutions and advisors.
What a team can draw on is shown in the company directory. As of 4 November 2026 it lists 27 semiconductor, 65 automotive components, 36 digital and 17 health companies. In semiconductors, for example, Ableprint supplies packaging process equipment and iST offers reliability testing. In automotive, Amulaire makes cooling modules for electric vehicles. In digital, MaxAIOT offers edge computing and machine vision. In health, Onyx Healthcare makes medical-grade computers and smart operating-room systems.
Two alliance solutions have been published: the Automotive Components Alliance's integrated ADAS sensing and optical lighting solution, and the Digital Industries Alliance's AI Vision Application. They show how member companies combine their products into one solution. A company can use them to judge whether its own need resembles an existing solution. See the integrated solutions page for details.
Who should respond to these needs
The directory suits startups and small and medium-sized enterprises with technology, product or service capability. Take the Automotive Components Alliance. Larger firms lead it, and through training, certification, digital transformation and R&D coaching it helps smaller firms enter the automotive supply chain. Such firms already have a basis of qualification to point to when answering a large company's need. In the Digital Industries Alliance, 優智能 (Youzhineng) helps manufacturers adopt AI with a production-management assistant, and 購威經濟 (Gouwei Jingji) provides digital-transformation consulting and system adoption services to small and medium-sized enterprises. Their offers map onto the digitalisation needs a larger manufacturer may pose.
A company able to respond can choose the direction of offering a capability or solution on the form, name the need it is answering, and describe its capability, region and mode of collaboration. TINAI then follows up on the content of the need and confirms interest on both sides. No response time is promised at present.
Frequently asked questions
Are the companies in the needs directory real?
Not at present. The seven needs shown are illustrative, with fictional company names and content, to show the fields. When real needs are published, only approved anonymous summaries will appear, and company names stay withheld.
Will my company name be published?
No. Only an approved summary of the need is published. Contact details and internal assessments stay private, and nobody is introduced to you, or you to them, without your agreement.
Can I attach technical documents to a request?
No. The form takes context only and does not accept attachments, financial data, confidentiality agreements or non-public files. Technical and commercial details are exchanged between the parties after first contact.
How soon will I hear back?
No response time is promised at present. TINAI introduces the parties only after both have confirmed interest, and progress depends on the need and how complete the information is.