From Lab to Market: How FITI Helps Nearly 600 Startups Take Their First Step
Original: 從實驗室到市場，FITI 如何陪伴近600家新創跨出第一步？
FITI supports academic research teams with mentors, courses, and resources to commercialize technology and reach the market.
INSIDE introduces Taiwan’s FITI program as a bridge between academic research and startup commercialization. The program helps research teams build business thinking and market connection capabilities through mentors, courses, and supporting resources. Its focus is helping technology-driven teams shorten the gap between laboratory research and market entry, with the article highlighting FITI’s role in accompanying nearly 600 startups through their earliest entrepreneurial steps.
This INSIDE article introduces the role of the "From IP to IPO" innovation and entrepreneurship incentive program (FITI) in Taiwan's academic-research entrepreneurship ecosystem. The article notes that FITI's core goal is to help teams from academic and research institutions transform results that originally leaned toward technological R&D into entrepreneurial solutions closer to market needs. For many academic-research teams, the technology itself may be innovative, but truly bringing it to market still requires the ability to understand business models, customer needs, product positioning, resource matchmaking, and market connection; FITI provides structured support precisely for this gap between the lab and the market.
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