Innovative region: Taiwan

“Startups are the fruits of innovation,” according to Taiwan’s government, but are a crop requiring plenty of regulatory and financial support judging by a host of announcements covering crowdfunding, new venture capital funds and entrepreneur visas from the island in the past few months.

Duh Tyzz-jiun, Taiwan’s National Development Council Minister, in an interview with newswire Bloomberg provided the above quote as part of a series of initiative including plans by the Taiwan government and venture capital funds to jointly raise more than NT$22.2bn…