Home of four national research centers: BIOTEC, MTEC, NECTEC, NANOTEC and one technology management center: TMC
Vision: Key Partner for a Knowledge-based Society through Science and Technology
Missions: Research and Development, Technology Transfer, Human Resources
Employees: >2,600 employees (1,600 fulltime) 68% Research (researchers 400 Ph.D.s) 29% Operation, 3% Management
Budget: USD113M from the Government + 20% from contracts, services and licenses
R&D Strategy: NSTDA's 2011-2016 R&D strategy is focused on five target areas: Agriculture and Food, Energy and Environment, Health and Medicine, Bioresources and Community and Manufacturing and Service Industries (e.g. HDD, air conditioners and automobile parts). Within these target areas there are four cross-cutting programmes: functional materials, sensor and intelligent systems, digital engineering, and service research.