Industrial Technology Research Institute

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Industrial Technology Research Institute
工業技術硏究院

ITRI Headquarters from above
Company type	Not-for-profit research institute
Industry	Research and development
Founded	5 July 1973
Headquarters	Zhudong, Hsinchu County, Taiwan
Key people	Lee Chih-kung (Chairperson) Edwin Liu (President)
Number of employees	6000+
Website	www.itri.org

The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI; Chinese: 工業技術硏究院; pinyin: Gōngyè Jìshù Yánjiù Yuàn) is a technology research and development institution in Taiwan.^[1] It was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Hsinchu City, Taiwan, with branch offices in the U.S., Europe,^[2] and Japan.

Since 1973, ITRI has been a significant driver of Taiwan's economy, especially its tech industry,^[3] having contributed to moving Taiwan's industries from labor-intensive to innovation-driven. Its open lab and incubator have fostered emerging industries and startups including UMC and TSMC.^[4]

In 2020, ITRI launched the 2030 Technology Strategy & Roadmap, which focuses on the development of technology to meet industrial and societal needs by working with domestic and international partners in academia, industry, and the government.^[5]

In 1982, the new Materials Research Laboratories (MRL) was established under ITRI and Otto C.C. Lin was appointed Founding Director.

In 2002, ITRI partnered with Apex Medical and started the development of respiratory therapy product series. This was one of Apex Medical's first major collaborations.

In 2019, ITRI banned all smartphones and computers made by China's Huawei from their internal network for security reasons.^[6][7] China's Taiwan Affairs Office reacted negatively to the decision with their spokesperson saying that the decision “jeopardizes the mainland and Taiwan’s regular economic cooperation for political purposes".^[8]

As of 2019, self-driving cars designed by ITRI had accumulated more than 2,000 km of testing in the Changhua Coastal Industrial Park.^[9]

StarFab is a tech accelerator founded by ITRI focusing on innovation in the fields of smart manufacturing, smart medical care, smart finance and smart agriculture.^[10] It is headquartered in Taipei with an office in the Tainan Science Park.^[11]

• Smart Living involves efforts to integrate technologies in information and communication technologies (ICT), cloud services, big data, etc., to develop smart services, logistics, and next-generation handheld devices.
• Quality Health focuses on the development of innovative therapeutic biologics, composite medical materials and instruments along with healthcare assistance technologies.
• Sustainable Environment centers on green energy, smart transportation, biomass, advanced green manufacturing, and disaster relief technologies.
• Intelligentization Enabling Technology includes AI, semiconductor, communications, cybersecurity, and cloud technologies to support technology breakthrough, and ensure data privacy and information safety.

• 2024 - Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovator
• 2024 - Edison Awards for Novel Dual-Targeted Therapy for Glaucoma, Key Functional Cell Identity (KFCI), PureTex Sustainable Decolorization Solution, and the High Resolution Full-Color Micro LED Display
• 2024 - Globee Awards for Customer Excellence: Achievement in Brand Strategy and Development Gold Winner
• 2024 - NYX Awards: Integrated Marketing - Company Branding Gold Winner
• 2024 - NYX Awards: Integrated Marketing - Integrated Marketing / Other__ Gold Winner
• 2023 - Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovator
• 2023 - CES Innovation Awards for AI Aquarium
• 2022 - R&D 100 Awards for High Resolution Full-Color Micro LED Display for AR Glasses, Point-of-Care AI-DR, and GreenTape™ 9KC LTCC and Ag Metallization for mmWave 5G Wireless Devices
• 2022 - Edison Awards for BioMS-Ti and Portable Edge AI-DR
• 2022 - Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovator
• 2022 - CES Innovation Awards for RGB-D AI Robot, iPetWeaR, and All-in-One Thermal Sensing System
• 2021 - Communication Excellence Awards: Best Technology Gold Winner
• 2021 - Communication Excellence Awards: Marketing Campaign of the Year Silver Winner
• 2021 - Public Relations & Marketing Excellence Awards: External Marketing Campaign of the Year
• 2021 - NYX Marcom Awards: Digital Marketing Campaign Grand Winner
• 2021 - NYX Marcom Awards: Marketing Material Gold Winner
• 2021 - R&D 100 Awards for Software-defined Augmented Robot Joint (SARJ), 3D Printing Biomimetic Materials and Structures for Tissue Integration (BioMS-Ti), and Ubiquitous Water Wand (UWAW)
• 2021 - HR Asia Best Companies to Work for in Asia
• 2021 - Edison Awards for AI-Based High Density Shuttle Rack Service System and MetabColor
• 2021 - Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovator
• 2021 - CES Innovation Awards for iDarlingWeaR
• 2020 - R&D 100 Awards for Dye-sensitized cell (DSC) as Energy source of Sensors, Networked Amide Epoxy Polymer Electrolyte for Solid State Lithium-Ion Batteries (NAEPE), and A Smart-Care Solution for Chronic Wound, iSCare
• 2020 - Judges' Choice of the SCF Awards
• 2020 - Edison Awards for iKNOBEADS and Celluad
• 2020 - Derwent Top 100 Global Innovator
• 2020 - CES Innovation Awards for PECOLA (Personal Companion Robot for Older People Living Alone) and iStimUweaR
• 2019 - R&D 100 Awards for Reconfigurable and Regulatable Battery Array System (RAIBA), Bionic Knobby Magnetic Beads Manufacturing Technology (iKNOBEADS)
• 2019 - Derwent Top 100 Global Innovator
• 2019 - Edison Awards for iRoadSafe^[12]
• 2019 - CES Innovation Awards for Hybrid Power Drone with High Payload and Duration
• 2018 - R&D 100 Awards for Automatic Police UAV Patrol System, Functional Dyeing Synchronized with CO₂ Supercritical Technology, and Portable UVC LED Water Sterilizer System
• 2018 - Edison Awards for Fluid-Driven Emergency Rescuer (FDER)^[13]
• 2018 - CES Innovation Awards for Intelligent Vision System (IVS) for Companion Robots and Handheld Pesticide Residue Detector
• 2018 - Clarivate Analytics Top 100 Global Innovator^[14]
• 2017 - R&D 100 Awards for CoolSo, ChemSEI-Linker, The LCD Waste Recycling System, CINmat, BESTAI, CyperEpi, Power and Thermal-Aware Electronic System Level Platform (PT-ESL), and Prognostic and Health Management Software in Semiconductors (PHM)
• 2017 - R&D 100 Special Recognition Award in Green Tech for The LCD Waste Recycling System
• 2017 - Edison Awards for Ultrafast Rechargeable Aluminum Battery (URABat)
• 2016 - R&D 100 Awards for iSmartweaR, Long-Distance Floating Multi-Screen Head-up Display (HUD) technology, Wearable Walking Assistive Exoskeleton Robot (2WA-EXO), Ultrafast Rechargeable Aluminum Battery (URABat) and SpeedPro
• 2016 - ITRI wins Grand Prize and Design Recognition Award at Taiwan OpenStack Hackathon for a wearable sensor device that measures muscle signals of violinists
• 2015 - R&D 100 Awards for Plasmon-Coupled Organic Light-Emitting Diode (PCOLED), Fluid-Driven Emergency Lighting, Higher Sensitivity Tactile-Film System for Wearable Orthosis (HSTS) and PolyE Membrane Technology
• 2015 - Frost & Sullivan Best Practices New Product Innovation Award for In-Line Compact Thermal Analyzer (ICTA)
• 2015 - Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators
• 2014 - R&D 100 Awards for In-Line Compact Thermal Analyzer (ICTA) and High Efficiency Calcium Looping Technology (HECLOT)
• 2013 - R&D 100 Awards for iAT Technology, FluxMerge, and ButyFix
• 2012 - The Wall Street Journal's 2012 Technology Innovation Awards for SideLighter and aePLASMA
• 2012 - R&D 100 Awards for Lignoxy, TEMM, SideLighter, aePLASMA, Light&Light, and AVA-Clamp
• 2012 - Aviation Week's A&D SIC Award for REDDEX
• 2011 - The Wall Street Journal's 2011 Technology Innovation Awards for i2R e-Paper and Spray-IT
• 2011 - ITRI as Excellent Organization, Solar Industry Awards, UK for Solar Radome
• 2011 - R&D 100 Awards for i2R e-Paper and HyTAC
• 2011 - Silver Award, The Society for Information Display (SID) Display of the Year Awards (DYA) for ITRI Flexible Substrate for Displays
• 2010 - Overall Gold, The Wall Street Journal's 2010 Technology Innovation Awards for FlexUPD, Runner-up for MDPS
• 2010 - R&D 100 Awards for FlexUPD, i2/3DW and REDDEX
• 2009 - R&D 100 Awards for STOBA
• 2009 - The Wall Street Journal's 2009 Technology Innovation Awards for FleXpeaker
• 2009 - iF Design Award for Fluid Driven Lighting System
• 2009 - Red Dot Design Award for Flexio Radio
• 2008 - R&D 100 Awards for On-Chip AC LED

See Honors for more information.

In order to recognize outstanding individuals for their contributions to technological advancement, industrial development, and the betterment of humankind, ITRI inaugurated the honorary ITRI Laureates.

• ITRI TODAY subscription
• ITRI Annual Report

• Automotive Research & Testing Center
• National Applied Research Laboratories
• Institute for Information Industry
• Taiwan Textile Research Institute
• National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology
• Tsinghua Big Five Alliance

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