Jih Chang (Bob) Yang, PhD
Executive
Vice President
General Director, NanoTechnology
Research Center
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Jih Chang (Bob) Yang, PhD Executive
Vice President |
Dr. Yang is an Executive Vice President of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a 6,000-person R&D institution focused on the development of strategic industrial technologies and the building of Taiwan's high tech industries. The significant activities he is presently leading include:
Directing ITRI’s six-year, $ 300 million nanotechnology program,
and serving as the Co-Executive Director of Taiwan’s overall National
Nanotechnology Program
Directing the operation of ITRI’s “Open Laboratory” which
over the last six years has incubated 96 new companies with a total
capitalization of over $ 1 billion
Supervising all of ITRI’s e-Business transition activities;
leading an effort to build the Industrial Knowledge Community Network (IKCN), a
vertical-based knowledge service infrastructure that forms the basis of ITRI's
Internet strategy
Supervising all ITRI international activities and founded ITRI’s
international technology sourcing network with bases located at San Jose,
Berlin, Tokyo and Moscow
Besides his many responsibilities at ITRI, Dr. Yang has conceptualized and is now serving as a director of the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) R&D Leaders Forum, a region-wide network consisting of public and private sectors R&D executives. He is a member of Taiwan’s National Information Community Initiative (NICI) and was selected as one of the “100 New Economy Leaders in the Greater China Region” by the E-Business Weekly Magazine. He has also founded and is presently serving as Chairman of the Environment and Development Foundation (EDF), the issuing body of Taiwan’s ecolabels. Dr. Yang is a frequently invited speaker in the region and around the world on technology and environment related subjects.
Dr. Yang is a graduate of the National Taiwan University and has earned his PhD degree at the University of Washington.
THE
FUTURE IS NOW
An Introduction to ITRI’s Nanotechnology Program
On January 16, 2002, the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) dedicated its new NanoTechnology Research Center (NTRC), thus launching one of the most ambitious R&D efforts in its twenty-nine year history. With NTRC as their strategic and management center, ITRI researchers from across many operating units and technical disciplines will join hands to take on a six-year nanotechnology research program aimed at converting the sweeping promises of the nano-world into competition-driven real-world applications. The program constitutes more than one half of ROC’s National Nanotechnology Program in terms of overall scope and resource allocations.
Nanotechnology’s impact on the global industrial landscape will be steep and wide. According to official American and Japanese projections, the total market size for nanotechnology will surpass $ 1 trillion in the next ten to fifteen years. For the majority of technology-based manufacturing industries of the world, these projections foretell nothing less than wholesale turnovers of the existing orders of things. Small wonder all of the heavyweight economies of the world are lavishing substantial R&D sums on nanotechnology research.
Nanotechnology, to put it quite simply, is the future of manufacturing, and it will redefine the landscape of high technology. The race to the “bottom” has already begun. Nanotechnology-based products will be proliferating in the near term, not the long-term. The future is, literally, now.