Innovation Act for Industry-Academia Collaboration and Talent Cultivation in National Key Fields Article 15

A national university that sets up a key research institute shall set up a supervisory committee with 15 members, and each term of the member appointed to serve on the committee shall not exceed four years. The members shall select one member to be the convener.The supervisory committee shall comprise government representatives, a representative of graduate students, a student association representative, industry representatives, representatives of fulltime teachers, and an external scholar or expert, appointed by the national university. The number of representatives in each category and the method of their selection and appointment are as follows:1.Five government representatives who are appointed（assigned）by the competent authority after deliberation and approval by the innovation steering committee. The competent authority may appoint or assign replacements on a needs basis. One of the government representatives must be a full-time teacher at the national university.2.One graduate student representative is nominated by a student-related autonomous organization at the national university; if the national university does not have an autonomous organization associated with graduate students, the graduate student representative shall be nominated by the graduate students in the national university’s student association.3.A student association representative is nominated by the national university’s student association.4.Two industry representatives are nominated by the president of the university and approved by the university council.5.There are five representatives of full-time teachers, three of whom do not have a concurrent administrative position; two of these three are elected by the teacher representatives on the university council from among themselves, and one is elected by the teachers’ organization at the national university. If the national university does not have a teachers’ organization, that representative will be elected by the teacher representatives on the university council from among themselves. The other two full-time teacher representatives are teachers who have been nominated by the president of the university and approved by the university council.6.One external scholar or expert shall be nominated by the president of the university and approved by the University Council.At least one of the members of the supervisory committee shall have a professional auditing background and related work experience.