After the university council of a national university has approved the university’s applying to set up a key research institute, the national university shall submit the following materials and documentary evidence to the competent authority which will convene a meeting of the innovation steering committee to deliberate over:
1. Documents that meet the publicly announced application eligibility criteria referred to in Article 4, Paragraph 4.
2. An innovation plan.
3. The charter and by-laws of the university, the by-laws of the key research institute, and details of the staffing complement it will have.
4. The minutes of the university council meeting at which the proposal to lodge an application was approved.
5. Other documents stipulated by the competent authority
The by-laws of the key research institute and the details of the staffing complement it will have referred to Subparagraph 3 of the preceding paragraph shall be reported to the competent authority after a key research institute has been set up and implemented after the competent authority gives approval.

The innovation plan referred to in Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 2 of the preceding article shall give explicit details of the key research institute’s plans for the following matters:
1. Innovative ideas and distinguishing features of the plan.
2. The innovation plan schedule and location（s）for its implementation.
3. A plan for the funding to be provided to the key research institute each year by one or more collaborating enterprises and the mechanism（s）for participating in industry-university cooperation and the training of skilled professional personnel.
4. Matters pertaining to the qualifications, selection and appointment method, term of office, reappointment for a further term, and criteria for dismissal of the dean.
5. The qualifications of and method for the appointment of administrative managers at each level, academic directors of subsidiary graduate institutes, and academic heads of degree programs.
6. A personnel system governing appointment procedure（s）, length of appointment, concurrent employment, secondments, reviews of qualifications, and age of personnel, and the qualifications of contract employees.
7. Salary bonuses for the dean, teachers, professional technicians, and researchers, which have been jointly set-up with industry partners; flexible payment of bonuses to office staff and concurrently employed national university personnel for work performance.
8. Increasing the number of or making and adjustments to graduate institutes, degree programs, eligibility criteria to sit for PhD entrance examinations, direct entrance into a master’s degree program by bachelor’s degree students, enrolment method（s）and quota（s）, prescribed periods for completing programs, and course credits for each course.
9. The procedure for assessment and recognition of foreign academic records and credentials, the name of each degree, the criteria for conferring each degree, the awarding and the awarding and registration of each degree diploma, the formation of master’s degree and PhD examination committees for, and the requirements to become a PhD candidate.
10. Course design, teaching and teacher deployments, cooperation mechanisms for industry training of highly skilled professional personnel, and models for joint supervision and guidance of students.
11. Timeline for the implementation of having courses fully taught in foreign languages.
12. Enrollment of overseas students.
13. Teaching quality assurance mechanism（s）.
14. A risk management system and procurement operations.
15. Provision of a set proportion of income from the results of R&D to the national university to use to improve teaching staff, supplement facilities, and for other further development of the university, and the expected benefits.
16. Performance targets for industry-university cooperation and skilled professional personnel training.
17. Items invested in, maximum investment amount limit（s）, and the associated deliberation procedures.
18. Management of budget compilation and implementation, compilation of annual financial statements, and related financial income and expenditure for auditing purposes.
19. Mechanisms for the winding up of operations, and the settlement of students, teachers and other personnel following closure or cessation of operations.
20. Change of the management agency for state-owned assets that the national university is in charge of, and the key research institute managing the provision and use of state-owned property.
If, in accordance with this Act, a key research institute does not apply the provisions of related laws and related regulations when dealing with any matters listed in the preceding paragraph, the key research institute shall set out the related provisions that it is not applying and the measures it will take instead in its innovation plan.

An innovation plan shall cover a period of between eight years and twelve years. When the competent authority is considering giving approval for a key research institute to continue operating beyond this period, in accordance with the provisions of Article 12, Paragraph 1, it shall take into consideration how the key research institute has operated and its achievements and an extension of between eight years and twelve years may be given for each successful application.

The competent authority shall decide to approve or reject an application within two months of 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, is calculated beginning from the day after the documents have been submitted.
After the innovation plan has been considered and approved by the competent authority in accordance with Paragraph 1, related regulations for the key research institute shall be drawn up based on the content of the plan and after the regulations have been approved in accordance with the procedures set out in this Act, the national university shall submit a copy of the regulations to the competent authority for future reference.

A key research institute shall put forward a report on its results before the innovation plan is due to come to an end, and it may put forward an application to subsequently continue operating at the same time. After being deliberated over by the management committee and the supervisory committee, the report on its results shall be presented to the university council for it to deliberate over, and the national university shall submit the report to the competent authority six months before the innovation plan ends. The provisions of Article 8 and Article 9 and of the preceding article apply, mutatis mutandis, deliberations, and the associated review and approval procedures.
The report on the results referred to in the preceding paragraph shall incorporate details of the handling of the implementation of the innovation plan and its results, improvement measures, and other matters that must be recorded.

In principle, changes are not made to an innovation plan that the competent authority has approved in accordance with the provisions of Article 11. If it becomes necessary to make any change（s）to the plan, after being deliberated over and approved by the management committee and the supervisory committee, the national university shall inform the competent authority which shall convene a meeting of the innovation steering committee to deliberate over the proposed change（s）, and the competent authority will approve if they have been approved by the innovation steering committee.