OurTop Talents Cultivation Plan is to assist regions in establishing cutting edge research institutions and roll out this model to other locations. Our view in establishing these institutions is when people of different backgrounds and fields get together, we create innovations and implement new technologies much quicker. For example, Dr. Yeh already assisted Okinawa and the Japanese government in establishing the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), which became a top global research institute in just a few short years.

OIST as a Model

Since the beginning of the OIST project, the objectives have always been a graduate university of science and technology in Okinawa with the world’s highest level of scientific and academic excellence in order to:

  1. Make Okinawa the leading intellectual center in Asia-Pacific region.
  2. Contribute to global advancement of science and technology.
  3. Make this university “a success story,” an impetus for the reform of Japanese universities.

The Basic Concepts of the university have been: Best in the World, International, Flexible, Global Network, Collaboration with Industry.

OIST was founded with Dr. Yeh’s guidance