Grape King Bio is linked to many admired institutes of higher education. The company has a long history of expertise and advanced technology and is the focus of many industry related academia for co-operations. The company continues to work with various universities and lobby for cooperation projects while also participating in lectures and seminars at various levels while also providing product testing services.

Lobbying for Biotech Projects

Grape King Bio has made great contributions to the development of the domestic biotechnology industry. The Ministry of Economic Affairs, Executive Yuan accepts applications for large-scale projects every year to guide the industry. For more than 10 years, Grape King has applied for such projects and completed a total of 10 projects while cooperating with many technological institutions to jointly conduct new product development and efficacy trials, receiving NT$ 146 million of government funding and achieving fruitful results.

Investing in Industry-Academia Cooperation and Research, Connecting with Colleges and Universities

Grape King Bio actively promotes cooperation between academia and industry, connecting the company’s latest products and materials with the research expertise of faculty members at universities and colleges nationwide to enhance our R&D capabilities, verify product efficacy, and accelerate industrial upgrading and the industrialization and marketization of the R&D result from colleges and universities.

Participations in Academic Lectures and Presentations

Grape King Bio’s R&D team have been invited to deliver lectures at various industrial, governmental and more than 100 academic institutions to share the company’s 20 years' experiences in biotechnology and industry development. In the past three years, the company has been invited to give 130 lectures at colleges and universities and has participated in more than 100 oral examinations for master's degree and doctoral dissertations. Grape King Bio has also participated in the development of curriculum planning and departmental affairs for more than 10 university departments. In 2019, new evaluation departments will be added which include, the Department of Microbiology of Soochow University, the Department of Food Science of Zhongtai University of Science and Technology and the Department of Food Science of Zhongxing University. We also publish our sucessful R&D results in journal papers and seminar papers, a total of 21  journal papers, 30  seminar papers and 28  seminar posters have been published this year. Our head od R&D also served as the chairman of the Taiwan Lactic Acid Bacteria Association, and spared no effort to promote the research and development, information exchange and industrial application of lactic acid bacteria.

Assistance in product testing services

Grape King Bio is renowned for its fermentation expertise and has a total of 80 fermentors. In addition to supplying key raw materials to the company, we also provide fermentation testing and industrialization platform services commissioned by academia and the industry, which not only allow the company to familiarize with different microorganisms and conduct in-depth research to gain experiences but also enable the company to evaluate suitable materials for technology transfer. Grape King Bio has cooperated with more than 20 departments in institutes of higher education on fermentation, and through accelerating the connection between academia and industry we have been able to enhance the speed of industrialization and quantification of academic R&D results, thus improving the domestic industry’s international competitiveness.