After the first phase (2003 ~ 2008) of embryonic growth and the second phase (2009 ~ 2014) of industrial layout, the promotion and implementation of Taiwan’s National Nanotechnology Program has established the advantageous basis for further development of this twenty-first century technology and enhancement of the industrial competitiveness of Taiwan.
In order to fully use this advantage after the end of the National Nanotechnology Program in 2014, Deputy Minister of the National Science Council (NSC), Dr. C. Y. Mou, decided in a meeting in February 2013 to set up a task force to prepare a plan for a special program under the Division of Natural Sciences in NSC which was reorganized to become the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in early 2014. IANTP proposed by the task force was approved in April 2014 by Minister S. C. Chang.
