Innovation Act for Industry-Academia Collaboration and Talent Cultivation in National Key Fields Article 11

The competent authority shall decide to approve or reject an application within two months after receiving it and inform the national university in writing; if necessary, this two-month period may be extended once only, for a further month at most.If the competent authority requires a national university to submit supplementary application documents, the period referred to in the preceding paragraph, during which an application is deliberated over, shall commence from the day after the submission of the complete documents.After the innovation plan has been approved by the competent authority in accordance with Paragraph 1, relevant regulations for the key research institute shall be drawn up based on the content of the plan; the national university shall submit the said regulations to the competent authority for reference upon ratification through the procedures stipulated in this Act.