2024 TTA International Accelerator Selection Plan
A closed Asia Silicon Valley and Taiwan Tech Arena selection call for international accelerators to recruit and support startups in Taiwan.
2024 TTA International Accelerator Selection Plan
Historical reference
This page records a closed selection call. It is not a live grant application for Taiwanese startups, and there is no verified new application round attached to this entry. The official notice was published by the organisation then known as the Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency (ASVDA) for the Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA). The organisation’s current website identifies it as the Asia Silicon Valley & AI Strategy Agency (ASVA), and its current work is presented through the broader Asia Silicon Valley 3.0 and AI policy programmes.
The date in the front matter is the real closing date from the archived notice: February 7, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. Taiwan time. The source gives that date in Taiwan’s Republic of China calendar as 113/02/07; the ISO value in the front matter is the corresponding Gregorian date. The notice said that applications were accepted from the announcement date until that deadline. Because the call has closed and the official current site does not announce a replacement round, historicalReference = true keeps this page useful as an archive without presenting the old date as an upcoming opportunity.
What the call was actually for
The 2024 TTA International Accelerator Selection Plan sought organisations that could run startup acceleration activity through Taiwan Tech Arena. It did not invite individual founders to apply for a personal grant. The selected applicants were expected to recruit and guide startup companies, help them connect with domestic and international investors, create substantive business cooperation with companies, and support business-scale growth.
That distinction matters. The previous version of this page described a founder-focused package with a fixed grant, a standard curriculum, pilot deployments, manufacturing introductions, and a startup application process. Those details are not stated in the verified TTA notice. The official call does not publish a fixed award, a standard equity range, a guaranteed pilot package, a required pitch video, or a fixed number of cohort places. Those claims have therefore been removed rather than carried forward as general programme promises.
The notice places the call within the Taiwanese government’s effort to strengthen the country’s startup base and connect research-driven innovation with international markets. In the 2024 plan, TTA worked with selected accelerators around three stated themes: nurturing science and technology, regional cooperation, and international links. The intended result was a stronger route for international startup resources and qualified teams to enter Taiwan, while giving Taiwanese research startups access to contacts and growth support beyond the domestic market.
Published support and operating role
The official notice describes support for the selected accelerator at the programme level, not a standard cash award to each startup. The National Science and Technology Council would assess each proposal against the annual budget, the selection committee’s review, the resources requested, and the expected output. The notice says that the overall accelerator subsidy was intended to decrease gradually as participating accelerators built more self-sustaining operating capacity. It also allowed additional support to be proposed when it matched the policy priorities for that year.
That wording means there is no reliable fixed amount to place in a current opportunity listing. A prospective applicant would have needed to read the call terms, prepare a proposal, and wait for the review of the resources and outcomes in that proposal. The amount field therefore records that the subsidy was budget- and review-dependent rather than presenting an unsupported figure.
The call also described a TTA ecosystem partnership for selected accelerators and the startups they supported. The partnership could include participation in TTA activities, resource and funding matchmaking, and introductions to companies. The purpose was to provide an operating platform and connections, not to promise a uniform package of cash, office space, laboratory access, or manufacturing services to every company. Any team considering a future related programme should verify the terms of that specific announcement.
Eligibility in the closed call
The applicant was expected to be an organisation able to contract and operate a programme in Taiwan. The notice says that an applicant, including a school, needed legal-person status in Taiwan. If the applicant did not have that status, it had to use a company or legal person with a substantive relationship as the application and contract party, with supporting evidence described in the proposal or contract.
The notice gave priority to applicants with three kinds of capacity. First, the applicant should have a direct investment function or a credible ability to invest in startups. Second, it should have the counselling and operational capacity to execute a startup acceleration project. Third, it should bring an international connection network and concrete service results. In practical terms, a suitable applicant needed to show more than a plan to hold workshops: it needed evidence that it could identify companies, support them, connect them with investors or corporate partners, and manage an international programme in Taiwan.
Applicants also had to disclose whether they had already received, or planned to apply for, similar government programme funding in the same year. The notice gives examples such as the Linkou Startup Terrace, the Yawan Startup Terrace, and local government youth startup bases. This disclosure was part of the proposal and operating plan. It was not a rule that startups had to be registered in Taiwan, and the call did not state that the applicant had to work only in IoT or smart mobility.
Application steps recorded by the source
The published process was concise and organisation-focused:
Prepare an English proposal deck. The applicant had to provide an English PowerPoint presentation covering the content required by the call. The notice described that presentation as the minimum submission for receipt of the application.
Send the deck by email. Applicants were instructed to email the presentation to yschang@taiwanarena.tech. They were also told to telephone the named contact after sending the materials so that receipt could be confirmed. The notice listed the contact telephone number as 02-25781813.
Complete qualification review and corrections. Applications that did not pass the initial qualification check could be asked to provide missing materials. The published supplementary-material deadline was February 20, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. Taiwan time. Missing that correction deadline meant losing eligibility for the selection process.
Attend substantive review. The notice expected the substantive review to take place in early March. Applicants passing the qualification review were expected to attend an in-person review meeting and present in English to an external review group assembled by TTA.
Check the result on TTA’s website. The notice said the result would be published on the TTA website rather than sent through separate individual notifications. The original announcement linked applicants to the TTA programme page for that result information.
These steps describe the closed 2024 call only. They should not be used as instructions for a new application. The current ASVA site has a different structure and lists current policy, news, activities, and startup resources. It does not provide a current application form or deadline for a replacement edition of this particular TTA international accelerator selection notice.
What selected accelerators were expected to do
The selected accelerator was expected to make startup recruitment public and to provide actual guidance after recruitment. Its role included helping companies obtain investment from domestic or overseas investors, pursue substantive commercial cooperation with companies, and expand the scale of their businesses. The call encouraged corporate participation in accelerator operations or in a vertical acceleration project, but it did not require every proposal to use one specific industry theme.
The programme’s international emphasis also shaped the expected value for participating teams. TTA wanted selected accelerators to bring international startup-growth resources and strong teams into Taiwan in a structured way. The intended beneficiaries could come from research and science-based innovation applied to areas across everyday life and industry. The notice names the broad goal of supporting development and international expansion rather than limiting the call to a single hardware category.
For a future call, an accelerator would therefore need to explain its recruitment method, mentor and adviser capacity, investor and corporate network, international reach, investment or financing model, and evidence from prior programmes. It would also need to explain how it would avoid overlapping government subsidies and how its proposed activity would contribute to TTA’s objectives. Those are reasonable preparation themes drawn from the published criteria, not promises that the next call will use identical wording.
Relationship to the current Asia Silicon Valley programme
The official current homepage describes Asia Silicon Valley 3.0 as a broad policy programme built around AI-enabled smart connected applications, startup ecosystem growth, and international expansion. Its current resource pages cover different startup stages and forms of help, including courses, counselling, incubation or acceleration, international links, marketing channels, competitions, corporate co-creation, regulatory resources, and information platforms. That is a policy and resource framework, not evidence of a reopened version of the 2024 TTA selection call.
The current site also explains that the execution centre changed name in October 2025 as the organisation expanded its remit to include AI policy work. That explains why an older ASVDA link and a current ASVA link can both appear in records about the same policy family. The current ASVA homepage is retained in the metadata as the verified official destination. Researchers who need the original terms should use the archived official announcement hosted on the former ASVDA domain and then confirm any successor call through ASVA or TTA.
Who should use this archive entry
This page is useful to an accelerator, university, investment organisation, or other legal entity researching how TTA previously recruited international acceleration partners. It is not a suitable application route for a founder looking for a startup grant. A Taiwan startup seeking support should instead check the current ASVA startup-resource pages, TTA’s current programme listings, and the relevant Taiwanese government startup portal for a separately announced call.
Before relying on any future announcement, verify four items directly: who the contracting applicant must be, whether the support is an operating subsidy or a startup award, what evidence of prior acceleration work is required, and whether the new call has its own deadline and contact channel. Do not infer those terms from the archived 2024 notice. The historical entry preserves the source’s real closing date and selection mechanics while making the current status explicit.