# Applying for research grants as a foreigner?

**URL:** <https://tw.forumosa.com/t/applying-for-research-grants-as-a-foreigner/184589>\
**Category:** Living in Taiwan\
**Created:** [October 16, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/applying-for-research-grants-as-a-foreigner/184589 "2019-10-16T19:53:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/applying-for-research-grants-as-a-foreigner/184589/1 "2019-10-16T19:53:28Z")

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Looking into this seriously now as have done a lot of research and could polish off some decent papers in a year if there was motivation to do so. I am wondering though if a foreigner can (privately) apply for grant money from the government? APRC long term expat.

The only other concern is it is agriculture related (breeding/field trials) and they are touchy about foreigners doing this as a business, but as research it seems unclear. Has anyone else done so?

EDIT: as an aside my wife is the owner of a Ltd. company here and she is Taiwanese. Reading this site, it seems if half the people are local then it would be fine to jointly apply perhaps. Its late i might be misreading it, but very curious on this aspect.

The focuses for us would be developing agriculture systems and breeding superior varieties and doing field trials. So 100% AG related.

[https://www.sbir.org.tw/introsbiren](https://www.sbir.org.tw/introsbiren)