Taiwan entrepreneurs enjoy customized service from Xiamen maker spaces

The newly founded First Maker Cross-Straits Smart Industry Base will offer Taiwan venture teams intellectual property services by teaming up intellectual property institutions. [Photo/sunnews.cn]

The maker spaces in Xiamen, Fujian province attract Taiwan young entrepreneurs by offering them more customized service, local media reported on Feb 18.

As of 2018, Xiamen has housed seven national cross-Straits young entrepreneurs bases and 10 such provincial bases.

Each of the bases serves different kinds of companies, including high-tech, design and cultural innovation companies.

Take the newly founded First Maker Cross-Straits Smart Industry Base for instance. Covering an area of 20,000 square meters, the maker space can accommodate up to 200 venture teams and nearly 100 companies are expected to land in it within half a year, 25 of which will come from Taiwan.

According to Tian Chengming, chief executive officer of First Maker's parent company Xiamen-based EPWeiKe, the maker space will focus on intellectual property services.

"We plan to partner with Taiwan intellectual property institutions and attract more relevant high-quality projects from the island," noted Tian.