Four entrepreneurs have donated a total of NT$900 million (US$27.6 million) to National Taiwan University (NTU) to fund a project to foster its Hsinchu campus and make it the centerpiece of the nation's biomedical research, university sources said yesterday.
Of the total, NT$150 million came from Etron Technology Inc (鈺創科技), a chip-design company; NT$50 million was provided by HealthBanks Biotech Co (生寶臍帶血), a company specializing in umbilical cord blood-related technology; NT$350 million was donated by Powerchip Semiconductor Corp (力晶半導體) and the remaining NT$350 million was offered by an NTU alumnus who at first refused to reveal her name but was later identified as Hsu Chao-hui (許照惠), founder and vice chairman of US-based IVAX Corp.
Memorandums of understanding were signed by NTU and three of the four donors yesterday at a press conference in Taipei.
According to NTU, the Hsinchu campus will be established in three stages, with seven complexes to be built on its 38 hectare compound.
The Hsinchu County Government has donated the land to the NTU for its Hsinchu campus, and the construction plan was approved in 2000. The plan has been delayed because management of the biomedical research park that NTU wanted to develop together with its Hsinchu campus was later transferred to the National Science Council.
Construction has yet to begin and NTU and the Hsinchu government have organized a Chupei task force to deal with the issue.
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