Augmented by the support of the Ministry of Education "Aim for the Top University Project" grant, NCKU maintains the integrated advantages of a comprehensive research university. It utilizes the considerable strength of high-quality research achievements to provide professional services for industry cooperation intermediation, intellectual property framework, technology transfer, and new enterprise cultivation through a main research center for university-industry collaboration and the Technology Transfer and Business Incubation Center. The overall industry cooperation research funding has grown from NTD3.27 billion in 2008 to NTD4.31 billion in 2014. Corporate funding makes up 13%-22% of the total figure; in the last ten years the overall funding invested by corporations has exceeded NTD4.7 billion.

Furthermore, NCKU's income from intellectual properties has exceeded NTD100 million for six years in a row since 2009. The results from industry operations have received recognition from the nation and the business sector. Achievements of industries transformed by leading technologies are listed below.

Manufacturing: E-Manufacturing Research Center integrates technologies such as Internet of Things, Big Data analysis, cloud computation, and virtual systems and created a high-intelligence automatic virtual model (AVM). It has currently obtained patent rights in Taiwan, the US, Japan, Korea, and China. This technology transforms existing sampling quality monitoring methods used by industries. With the premise on not increasing the cost of the monitoring machinery, instantaneous comprehensive evaluation are obtained and the ideals of comprehensive quality control are realized (for example, for a foundry factory which manufactures 30000 12inch DRAMs per month, an estimated USD63 million/yearly evaluation cost can be saved). Since 2014, many large manufacturing corporations and legal bodies (such as UMC, ASE, FEMCO, ITRI Machine Tool Research Center and ITRI Computational Intelligence Technology Center, and Metal Industries Research and Development Center) have started utilizing the AVM system. This technology has greatly enhanced the competitiveness of Taiwan's manufacturing industries. It is estimated to have a potential economic benefit of around NTD2 billion in Taiwan's market and around NTD5 billion in the global market.

Cross-disciplinary collaboration: The Innovative Digital Content Research Center (IDCRC) founded in 2013 has participated in a revolution of wrist products since members of the medical, education and engineering sectors collaborated and designed a wearable smart health device and cloud smart health management service platform in 2005. They have also created a prototype of industry ecosystem for big data repositories. Until today, they have facilitated a total number industry collaboration cases worth NTD43 million, over NTD20 million in technology transfer authorization fees, and NTD5 million through royalties.

Materials: The team from NCKU Department of Materials Science and Engineering has successfully converted waste oil into biodiesel through the use of strontium oxide catalyst. Not only does this resolve food safety issues, it also creates eco-friendly energy (5 liters of waste oil can produce 3 liters if biodiesel and 2 liters of glycerol, at a 0,3 degree power consumption and cost of around NTD1.2). The patent application for the US and Taiwan is ongoing, and many large waste oil processing plants have expressed interest.

Biomedicine: The agricultural technology team, which received the 8th National Innovation Award, lowered the feed conversion rate of immunization technique and successfully enabled advanced market availability of grouper (fish). The technology was successfully transferred to local and overseas aquaculture and animal industry leaders, with a total accumulated technology transfer fee of NTD40 million.