# Industrial Technology Research Institute

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. It was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Hsinchu City, Taiwan, with branch offices in the U.S., Europe, and Japan.
Since 1973, ITRI has been a significant driver of Taiwan's economy, especially its tech industry, 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.
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.

## History

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. 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".

## Innovations and applications
### Self-driving cars

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

### StarFab

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. It is headquartered in Taipei with an office in the Tainan Science Park.

### R&D Focus

* 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.

## Executives

Chairperson :
| Name | Tenure |
| Tsung-Tsong Wu | 2024.07 to present |
| Chih-Kung Lee | 2017.10.05 to 2024.07 |
| Tsung-Tsong Wu | 2016.07.22 to 2017.10.04 |
| Ching-Yen Tsay | 2010.02.22 to 2016.07.21 |
| Jin-Fu Chang | 2008.10.01 to 2010.02.21 |
| Chin-Tay Shih | 2008.06.16 to 2008.09.30 |
| Hsin-I Lin | 2004.10.01 to 2008.06.15 |
| Cheng-I Weng | 2001.03.05 to 2004.09.30 |
| Hsin-I Lin | 2000.08.22 to 2001.03.04 |
| Zhen Sun | 1995.01.20 to 2000.08.21 |
| Ta-Hai Lee | 1994.03.02 to 1995.11.14 |
| Morris Chang | 1988.12.09 to 1994.03.01 |
| Shien-Siu Shu | 1978.07.01 to 1988.12.08 |
| Chao-Chen Wang | 1973.07.01 to 1978.06.30 |
| President |||
| Name | Tenure |
| Edwin Liu | 2018.04.16 to present |
| Pei-Zen Chang (Interim) | 2018.02.15 to 2018.04.15 |
| Jonq-Min Liu | 2015.01.26 to 2018.02.14 |
| Jyuo-Min Shyu | 2010.04.16 to 2015.01.25 |
| Johnsee Lee | 2003.08.28 to 2010.04.15 |
| Chin-Tay Shih | 1994.04.19 to 2003.08.27 |
| Otto C.C. Lin | 1988.12.09 to 1994.04.18 |
| Morris Chang | 1985.08.20 to 1988.12.08 |
| Hien-Chee Fang | 1978.08.01 to 1985.08.19 |
| Chao-Chen Wang | 1973.07.01 to 1978.07.31 |

## Honors

* 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
* 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 CO$_2$ Supercritical Technology, and Portable UVC LED Water Sterilizer System
* 2018 - Edison Awards for Fluid-Driven Emergency Rescuer (FDER)
* 2018 - CES Innovation Awards for Intelligent Vision System (IVS) for Companion Robots and Handheld Pesticide Residue Detector
* 2018 - Clarivate Analytics Top 100 Global Innovator
* 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.

## ITRI Laureates

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.
2012 ITRI Laureates :
| Name | Position at Present Year |
| Morris Chang | Chairman of TSMC |
| Stan Shih | Chairman of iD SoftCapital Group |
| Ding-Hua Hu | Chairman of Chien-Pang Venture Capital Corp. |
| Bruce Cheng | Chairman of Delta Electronics Founder and Honorary |
| Jonney Shih | Chairman of ASUSTeK Computer |
| Suhon Lin | Chairman of Chang Chun Group |
| Tsai Ming-kai | Chairman & CEO of MediaTek |
| Biing-Jye Lee | Chairman of Epistar |
| 2013 ITRI Laureates ||
| Name | Position at Present Year |
| Barry Lam | Chairman of Quanta Computer |
| Chih-Yuan Lu | President of Macronix |
| Robert Chen | Chairman & CEO of Gloria Material Technology Corp. |
| Burn J. Lin | Vice President of Research & Development in TSMC |
| 2014 ITRI Laureates ||
| Name | Position at Present Year |
| Shien-Chang Chen | Vice Chairman of Chang Chun Group |
| Simon M. Sze | NCTU Honorary Chair Professor |
| Hwa-Nien Yu | Chairman of ITRI Advanced Research Advisory Committee Honorary |
| Eric G. Lean | Academia Sinica Academician |
| Lewis Terman | Former IEEE President and IBM Emeritus Researcher |
| 2015 ITRI Laureates ||
| Name | Position at Present Year |
| Ching-Chu Chang | Former Chairman of Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation (VIS) |
| Shang-Yi Chiang | Board Advisor of TSMC |
| Jack Y. Jau | Chairman and Founder of Hermes Microvision, Inc. |
| Cheng-Hai Hung | CEO of ECLAT Textile Corporation Ltd. |
| 2016 ITRI Laureates ||
| Name | Position at Present Year |
| Raymond Soong | Chairman of Lite-On Group |
| Chenming Hu | TSMC Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley |
| Archie Hwang | Chairman and CEO of Hermes-Epitek |
| Houng Sun | Chairman and President of Mirle Automation Corporation |
| Fei-Liang Tsai | Vice Chairman and CSO of Elite Material Co., Ltd. |
| 2017 ITRI Laureates ||
| Name | Position at Present Year |
| Chintay Shih | Professor of College of Technology Management & Morris Chang Chair Professor, National Tsing Hua University |
| Yingzhi Gao | Founder of Eternal Materials Co., Ltd. |
| Ming-Kuang Lu | Chairman and CEO of Sino-American Silicon Products Inc. and Actron Technology Corp. |
| 2018 ITRI Laureates ||
| Name | Position at Present Year |
| Kang Lung Wang | Distinguished Professor and Raytheon Chair in the Electrical and Computer Engineering development department at UCLA |
| Jimmy Chu | Founder and Chairman of FFG |
| Matthew Miau | Chairman of MiTAC-SYNNEX Group |
| Yue-Teh Jang | Chairman and CEO of Medeon Biodesign |
| 2019 ITRI Laureates ||
| Name | Position at Present Year |
| Patrick Y. Yang | Chairman of AbGenomics |
| Nelson Chang | CEO of Taiwan Cement |
| Arthur Yu-Cheng Chiao | Chairman of Winbond Electronics |
| Chen-Tung Yang | Founder and President of Allis Electric Group |
| Jason Lin | Chairman of Formosa Plastics |
| 2020 ITRI Laureates ||
| Name | Position at Present Year |
| Mark Liu | Chairman of TSMC |
| C.C. Wei | CEO of TSMC |
| Chi-Huey Wong | Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Scripps Research Institute |
| Hsiang-Tsung Kung | President of Taiwan AI Academy |
| Yuan-Teh Lee | Former superintendent of NTUH and emeritus professor of NTU |
| Simon Lin | Chairman and CSO of Wistron Corp. |
| Evans S.W. Tu | President and CEO of Synnex Technology International Corp. |
| 2021 ITRI Laureates ||
| Name | Position at Present Year |
| Miin Wu | Chairman and CEO of Macronix International |
| Rick Tsai | Vice Chairman and CEO of MediaTek |
| Cheng Wu | Chair of ITRI Advanced Research Advisory Committee |
| Pan-Chyr Yang | Professor of Internal Medicine at National Taiwan University College of Medicine |
| Grace Yeh | Chairman and CEO of Onward Therapeutics |
| 2022 ITRI Laureates ||
| Name | Position at Present Year |
| Paul Por-yuan Wang | Sercomm Corporation Honorary Chairman |
| T. F. Shiao | Eternal Materials Director and Senior Consultant |
| Yancey Hai | Delta Electronics Chairman |
| Bowei Lee | LCY Group Chairman |
| Samuel Yin | Ruentex Group President |
| 2023 ITRI Laureates ||
| Name | Position at Present Year |
| K.C. Liu | Advantech Chairman |
| Ming-Shiang Wu | National Taiwan University Hospital Superintendent |
| Tzu-Hsien Tung | Pegatron Chairman & CSO |
| Peter Chen | Qisda Chairman |
| 2024 ITRI Laureates ||
| Name | Position at Present Year |
| Jensen Huang | NVIDIA Founder and CEO |
| Lisa Su | Chair and CEO of AMD |
| Jason Chen | Chairman and CEO of Acer Incorporated |
| Doris Hsu | Chairperson and CEO of Sino-American Silicon Products Inc. Chairperson and CEO of GlobalWafers Co., Ltd. |
| Shih-Ann Chen | Superintendent of Taichung Veterans General Hospital |

## Publication

* ITRI TODAY subscription
* ITRI Annual Report