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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate entrepreneurial competencies of students in practicums within departments of electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS) in universities of technology. In total, 71 faculty members who advised in entrepreneurial competitions in universities of technology were participants in the questionnaire survey to find the entrepreneurial competencies during practicums of the EECS students. Design/methodology/approach Analysis was carried out based on the literatures related to off-campus internship in universities of technology and entrepreneurship competency. Then, through the questionnaire survey, the authors can understand what the entrepreneurial abilities should have when they after off-campus internships. The entrepreneurship competency expected of off-campus internship students within EECS was analyzed to derive at the important conclusion in this study. Findings As the results of this study, the authors found that entrepreneurial processes, entrepreneurial traits/behaviors, communications and interpersonal skills, and digital skills are the entrepreneurial competencies that are emphasized during practicums. Originality/value The paper suggests that, first, the EECS students take up innovative entrepreneurship programs and take electives such as marketing management, financial management, and related business administration courses. Second, respective universities of technology and internship organizations may co-arrange the incorporation of project-based learning (PBL), PBL into the internship work content. Third, establishing a platform that bridges communication for off-campus internship students.

This study explores 38 students of mechanical engineering at the University of Technology. The experiment group and the control group are used to compare the differences in the satisfaction of students with and without the intervention of topic-oriented teaching materials, and to understand the situation of learning satisfaction after the training with external students. This study uses a questionnaire distribution method for analysis and research. The content of the questionnaire is divided into two parts: student background attribute data and student learning satisfaction. The analysis is based on descriptive statistics and t test correlation.

In recent years, due to smartphones being more popular and the wireless network infrastructure improving, individuals are no longer constrained by the workflow on personal computers. Therefore, business operators are constantly launching new mobile application services for everyday life. This study mainly explores how mobile payment adopts the determinants, and adds utilitarian value, hedonic value and salesperson performance as antecedences to understand whether utilitarian value, hedonic value and salesperson behavior can affect satisfaction through determinants, as well as to understand consumers&rsquo, mobile payment usage intention through the stimulus-response model. The research objectives of this study are mainly mobile payment users in Taiwan. 425 valid questionnaires were received. This study uses a structural equation model to analyze the data. This study&rsquo, s results indicate that utilitarian value, hedonic value and salesperson selling behaviors positively affects customers&rsquo, satisfaction, which customers&rsquo, satisfaction positively affects mobile payment usage intention. The research results could provide mobile payment operators with references in the design and implementation of the mobile payment and application process, thereby accelerating the popularization of mobile payment.

The purpose of this study is to explore the employability of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the National Science and Technology School after graduation, and to study the employers of social freshmen and machinery-related enterprises who graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering within five years. with regard to mechanical related abilities, general common abilities, and behavioral attitudes. The correlation between the three major employment performances. The research target is 123 fresh people from the country who have graduated within five years of student and 112 employers people from all over the country. Graduates use Employability Table for Mechanical and Mechanical College Graduation in Science and Technology Colleges self-assessment of core employability performance. The Employers uses Employability Table for Mechanical and Mechanical College Graduation in Science and Technology Colleges to assess the graduates’ employment performance. The results of the study show that there are significant differences between graduates and employers in terms of the three major employability-oriented items, and the scores of graduates are generally higher than those of employer. Finally, based on the research findings, this study proposes relevant suggestions for improving the core employment and future research of college students.

Cultivating the employability of students is one goal of the pursuit of higher education. In order to improve the performance of university education, the employability of graduates must be enhanced. The purpose of this study is to find the industry and academia's views on employability expected of graduates and the gap between the industry and academia in order to put forward suggestions for improvement, with the focus groups method as the research method. Research results show: The industry attaches greater importance to employability. The “specific skill and knowledge related abilities” dimension includes “computer skills (word processing, professional software application and program writing)”, and “applying rules and regulations”; the “general abilities” dimension includes “working under pressure”; the “behavior/attitude qualities” dimension includes “initiative”, “adaptability”, “loyalty, integrity”, and “tolerance, appreciation of different points of view”.

This study examines 1630 tertiary students in regard to their entrepreneurial career intentions (ECIs) and their influencing factors. The findings may serve as academic reference for the development of entrepreneurship-related education. The results show that students’ computer self-efficacy (CSE) has a significant direct effect on ECIs, and entrepreneurship cognition (EC) has a significant effect on ECIs via CSE. The pattern and empirical data of EC and CSE on ECI have a good fit. This paper provides insights from Taiwan's tertiary institutions about the ECIs of students and contributes to a better understanding of them. We describe the development of the influencing factors, discuss the implications and provide suggestions for entrepreneurship education development.

Teachers’ perceptions of organizational innovation climates are vital to understand the success or failure of innovational implementations of technical institutes and universities. This study aims to develop a “Measure of Organizational Innovation Climates for Technical Institutes and University Teachers (MOIC-TT) in order to recognize the influence of schools on teachers’ creative behaviors. First, this study analyzes literature and scales related to organizational innovation climates, and reorganize the factors of technical institutes and university teachers’ innovation climates into a draft of scale. Secondly, a pretest is designed according to expert examination, teacher interviews, and expert panel. This study examines items, reliability, and validity by 125 subjects in pretesting, and 627 subjects in formal testing. Results of confirmatory factor analysis reveal that three latent factors (i.e., resource support, innovation leadership, and team cohesion) are related, and the factor model has good fit. Full scale coefficient is .96 and reliabilities of sub-scales are .87~.93. The research results indicate that teachers have positive attitudes toward the organizational innovation climates of schools. They tend to agree with “team cohesion” and “working independence”. Lastly, suggestions regarding content, characteristics, and future studies are proposed as reference for organizational innovation climates in technical institutes and universities. Key words: Organizational innovation climates, technical institute and university technical Institute, working independence, innovation leadership, team cohesion.

A service orientation aims to provide professional and comprehensive service items to consumers in a sale or a non-sale situation, while an interaction orientation has the goal of creating good interaction ability with individual customers in order to maintain long-term, profitable customer relationships, and in the process obtaining valuable information about individual customers. These orientations build customer-centric operations and develop competitive advantages, thus enhancing firm performance and customer value. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relative and collective contributions of different strategic orientations on a firm's performance, with a focus on consumer–company identification. The structural equation model results indicate that (1) both service orientation and interaction orientation positively influence consumer–company identification and (2) interaction orientation results in higher perceived consumer identification.

This study examines 674 tertiary education students’ socialization of entrepreneurial behavior and its influencing factors. The results show that students’ internship experience (IE) has a significant direct effect on socialization of entrepreneurial behaviors (SEB), and entrepreneurial self- efficacy (ESE) has a significant effect on SEB through IE. The influence pattern and empirical data of ESE and IE on SEB has a good fit.

This study examines 324 tertiary students’ entrepreneurial internship effectiveness and its influencing factors in IT industry to serve as a school reference for the development of entrepreneurial internship education measures. The results show that students” “entrepreneurial intention (EI)” has a significant direct effect on “entrepreneurial internship effectiveness (EIE)”, and “internship satisfaction (IS) “has a significant effect on “entrepreneurial internship effectiveness” through “internship satisfaction.” The influence pattern and empirical data of “internship satisfaction” and “entrepreneurial intention” on “entrepreneurial internship effectiveness” has a good fit.

This study aims to understand whether an entrepreneurship course can improve the entrepreneurial intentions, satisfaction towards the entrepreneurship course and learning efficacy of technical university students. In order to achieve these purposes, this study adopted the pre-test and post-test experimental design for one single subject group and conducted experimental teaching for 18 weeks. During the experiment, in addition to lectures given by the course instructor, experienced speakers with actual entrepreneurial exposure were invited for mentor co-teaching. The results found high satisfaction and better learning efficacy for the above curriculum design and teaching, but the entrepreneurial intentions of students have not been improved. This indicates that with the implementation of the entrepreneurship course, students better understand they are not suitable to pursue an entrepreneurial career. Hence, entrepreneurship education does not teach students to “pursue an entrepreneurial career,” but to apply what they learned to their future jobs. Mentor co-teaching indeed enhances satisfaction towards the course and the learning efficacy of students.

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of organizational learning as a mediator variable between support for innovation and organizational innovation. Samples for this study were randomly selected from 22 technological colleges in Taiwan. The final sample included 322 participants in the full sample which accounted for 58.42 % of the sample. A structural equation modeling (SEM) approach was used to evaluate the complex structure of the proposed research constructs. The study concluded that organizational learning was an important determinant of organizational innovation in technological colleges. Support for innovation had a positive relationship on organizational learning and organizational innovation.

Festival tourism, which combines the theme of a festival with the local characteristics of an area, has become an extremely attractive marketing method in recent years. In addition, local food and beverages are items that many visitors enjoy consuming and that can become attractions in their own right. The aims of this study are: (a) based on expenditure theory, to explore how spending on food and beverages and other items such as accommodations and transportation influences intentions to revisit and make positive recommendation; and (b) to examine whether or not tourists with different lifestyles use or experience different sources of information, evaluation criteria and travel expenses. A questionnaire survey was conducted using visitors to the 2009 Penghu Sea fireworks festival, and 308 valid samples were collected. The results were as follows. First, food and beverages had a significant positive influence on revisit and recommendation intentions. Second, the total expenditure on a tourist visit had a ...

This study examines 341 tertiary teachers' pro-industry professional cognition and its influencing factors to serve as a school reference for adjust industry 4.0. The results show that teachers' industry experience has a significant direct effect on tertiary teachers' pro-industry professional cognition, and "teaching innovation self-efficacy has a significant effect on pro-industry professional cognition through industry experience. The influence pattern and empirical data of teaching innovation self-efficacy and industry experience on pro-industry professional cognition has a good fit.

This research aims to explore the entrepreneurial competences for starting a store. This study used the techniques of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to solicit opinions from 17 excellent franchisees that selected from Taiwan Family-Mart Chain Stores. The results show that the entrepreneurial skill is the most important factor for starting a store in the criteria level. The second is business function skills. This is different with authors’ former study. In the index level, the rank of entrepreneurial competences for starting a store by descending are the entrepreneurial traits/behaviors, communications skills, operations management, business foundations, entrepreneurial processes, human resource management, professional innovation ability, marketing management, risk management, financial management and digital skills. The first skill, same with former study, is entrepreneurial traits/behaviors. This weight is over three times higher than the second one. It means that entrepreneurs need to have some inherent traits with others.

The purpose of this study aims to examine the impact of Self-efficacy on Innovative Work Behavior for Teachers in Taiwan. The randomly stratified sampling method is used in this study to select 546 secondary school teachers from 20 public/private schools in the northern region of Taiwan. The data is analyzed using the descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and regression analysis. First, the results indicate that out of the three important ranking is at Teachers' self-efficacy, two are at "Self-efficacy towards Guiding Groups"-related, and one is at "Self-efficacy towards Using Innovations." However, the results indicate that three domains of Teachers' Self-efficacy in this study are well-performance as well as Innovative Work Behavior. The results also indicate that there is a strong positive relationship between Teachers' Self-efficacy (TSE) and Innovative Work Behavior (IWB). However, there is no statistical correlation between Self-efficacy towards using innovations and IWB's all scales. Teachers with higher self-efficacy have shown better work innovative behavior. TSE is a significant contributing factor to IWB. Several recommendations are made in the study.

There is a lack of research in the area of the influence that task autonomy (TA), organizational learning (OL), and group cohesiveness (GC) can have on technical education teachers' innovation of professional development (IOPD). Therefore, this study aimed to probe into the influences of TA, OL, and GC on IOPD by technical education teachers, and their relationships. We conducted a questionnaire survey on 265 full-time teachers. The results showed that TA, GC, and OL of technical education teachers revealed significant positive relationships with the degree of IOPD. The teachers' TA and OL are critical factors to their IOPD, as they are positive predictors.

This study aims to conduct experimental instruction on the human resource management unit of business management in practical competencies-oriented business program developed by Chen (2005). This study is based on the quasi-experiment method and the subjects are two classes of students in a four-year technical university who have completed the two-credit “Management” class in the previous semester. Experimental results showed that the teaching materials and supplementary cases can enhance students’ learning achievement; however, problem-solving attitude is not significantly improved.

The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship among marine tourism employee’s personality traits, work motivation and innovative behavior. In order to meet this purpose, the study conducts questionnaire survey. Questionnaire sample of 250 has been handed out and 215 valid samples have been collected. The results show that employees with higher intrinsic work motivation are more likely to generate innovative behavior. The compensation in extrinsic work motivation has a positive effect on employee’s innovative behavior. Intrinsic work motivation has mediated effect between personality traits and innovative behavior. Extrinsic work motivation has partial mediated effect between personality traits and innovative behavior.

The purpose of this study is to understand the current status of the establishment of “general health education curriculum” by technical institutes and universities in Taiwan. A questionnaire survey method was used. A total of 75 questionnaires were sent and 41 were returned; the valid return rate was 54.7%. The result showed that the courses on general health can be categorized into four groups: physiological, psychological, nutritional, and fitness health. Group the curriculum by academic fields, and the natural sciences are the course offered by most schools. Group the curriculum by subjects, and courses offered by non-medical institutes focused mostly on psychological and lifestyles (health psychology), while that of the medical-related institutes offer most curriculums in health management (health promotion, health-related physical fitness), health and exercise, medicine and lifestyles (healthcare and life) and nutrition.

Innovation is an important basis for successfully gaining global market shares in the era of technological changes. In order to maintain national competitiveness, the government attaches great importance to innovative thinking ability. To this end, throughout various stages of education in Taiwan, creativity competitions are held. Among them, at universities and colleges, annual innovation and entrepreneurship competitions are held; at vocational high schools, national creativity project work competitions are held. In this study, award-winning students from the two competitions were selected. The creative concept design capability scale was adopted to compare the award winners and non-winners in terms of differences in innovative thinking points. The creative concept design capability scale was used to assess the gap among students who received training, college project instructors, and student innovative thinking points. Findings show that the overall innovative thinking points are mostly concentrated in the appearance. University/college of technology or vocational high school competition award winners alike have a significantly higher total score compared to the total innovative thinking points score of regular university/college of technological teachers and students. However, as to the innovative thinking points for different categories, university and college award winners of innovation entrepreneurship competitions tend to put the chemical change of innovative thinking points to better uses; vocational high school award winners of creativity project work competitions tend to put the external size and external texture layout of innovative thinking points to better uses. The university and college students on the project team are better able to use the physical changes, structural complexity, operability, shape changes, functional enhancement, and usage enhancement of the innovative thinking points. This study recommends that students select more related professional practical courses to ?learn by doing?. Students are encouraged to participate in off-campus learning activities or creativity competitions so that they can broaden their horizons. As for teaching, teachers may lead students in site visits to learn about innovative products in the industry. The course design combines theory and practice, case discussions are examples of which.

This study examines 672 tertiary education students’ EG and its influencing factors. The results show that students’ e-Recruiting perceived (ERP) has a significant direct effect on employability growth (EG), and employability self-efficacy (ESE) has a significant effect on EG through ERP. The influence pattern and empirical data of ESE and ERP on EG has a good fit.

This study examines 356 tertiary education students' entrepreneurial career intentions (ECI) and its influencing factors. The results show that students' labor Market information (LMI) has a significant direct effect on ECI, and employability self-efficacy (ESE) has a significant effect on ECI through LMI. The influence pattern and empirical data of ESE and LMI on ECI has a good fit.

The aim of this study is to investigate if entrepreneurial courses can enhance the entrepreneurial intention of students, by a survey conducted on students of 34 universities department with marketing- and logistics-management-related programs in Taiwan. Of the questionnaires recovered from 22 universities of science and technology, 847 copies are valid. The results show that entrepreneurial courses and entrepreneurial intentions are uncorrelated with one another. Although, entrepreneurial intentions correlate with academic performance, school attribute, gender and family entrepreneurial experience, but are uncorrelated to part-time work experience and in which year students are studying. Key words: Entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurship.

This study aims to develop an entrepreneur education program and evaluate its instructional effects from the viewpoint of “cognitive apprenticeship model”. In order to accomplish this purpose, this study samples 40 participating students from a case school as subjects, adopts methods of participation and observation, in-depth interviews, writing learning journal; and analyzes data using ATLAS.ti software accompanied by critical incident technique (CIT), “modified analysis induction”, and “constant comparison analysis”. The findings demonstrate that the program possesses entrepreneur role development functions, such as external support, transition, and self-adjustment. Key words: Micro business, entrepreneur education, cognitive apprenticeship.

The purpose of this study is to explore influenced factors of internet's buying behavior for undergraduate students. The study distributed 300 questionnaires to National Penghu University of Science and Technology, 291 valid questionnaires of them returned. The results showed that the factors (in descending order of mean scores) that might influence the internet's buying behavior include: after-sales service, convenience, transaction security, content, and word of mouth. Different gender, grade, institute, buying experience, and internet using hours had significance difference on internet's buying behavior. Through stepwise regression analysis showed that the three variables, after-sales service, convenience and word of mouth, were useful for prediction of the internet's buying behavior for undergraduate students and that 68.0 % of the total variance could be explained by these three variables.

This study examines 218 technical and vocational school student teachers' entrepreneurial learning behavior and its influencing factors to serve as a school reference for the development of entrepreneurship education measures. The results show that student teachers' "self-efficacy" has a significant direct effect on "entrepreneurial learning behavior," and "entrepreneurship acceptance" has a significant effect on "entrepreneurial learning behavior" through "self-efficacy." The influence pattern and empirical data of "entrepreneurship acceptance" and "self-efficacy" on "entrepreneurial learning behavior" has a good fit.

This study aims to investigate perceptions of entrepreneurial motivation and barriers for technical university students in Taiwan. Questionnaire survey was conducted in this research. A total of 1360 questionnaires were distributed to 34 technical universities in Taiwan. After eliminating the questionnaires with incomplete answers and invalid ones, there were 847 effective samples from 22 technical universities, with a valid return rate of 64.16%. The results indicated that the top three motivation of start a business for technical students (in descending order of mean scores) is “creating something of my own”, “the chance to implement my own ideas” and “personal independence”. The top three barriers of start a business for technical students (in descending order of mean scores) is “lack of initial capital”, “lack of knowledge of the business world and the market”, and “lack of a high level of entrepreneurial competence”. The motivations of start a new business for Taiwan’s technical students are similar with the US students. But in entrepreneurial barriers is little difference.

The purpose of this study is to examine education service providers' demand for entrepreneurial ability. To achieve this goal, in this study we first used in-depth interviews with student teachers in the education service business to understand their motives for starting their own businesses, their entrepreneurial ability and the elements for starting their own businesses. The results showed that the entrepreneurial ability of teachers in the education service business should be based on “educational philosophy and professional knowledge”. First of all, they should have “business function” ability such as marketing, economics, finance, accounting, management and IT as their main abilities, followed by “business assessment” ability, such as global market knowledge, legal knowledge and business planning ability. The final ability will be “entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial opportunities” as the reflection of entrepreneurs' setting of cognitive awareness and goal-orientation in the education service business after their assessment of the business.

This study aims to explore factors affecting the creative teaching efficacy of technical and vocational education teachers, and to make suggestions for creative teaching. The research method is survey research. Using “A Survey on Factors Influencing Technical and Vocational Education Teachers' Creative Teaching Efficacy” as a research tool, this study surveys 314 technical and vocational education teachers. The results find that teachers' perceived “organizational innovative climate” has significant and direct impact on “creative teaching efficacy.” In addition, “self-efficacy for creative teaching” has significant and direct impact on “creative teaching efficacy.” “Organizational innovative climate” has significant and indirect effects on “creative teaching efficacy.”

The study integrated a cognitive apprentice theory with a learning and knowledge base into a teacher development program, developed a "Teaching Excellence Mechanism for Vocational and Technical College Teachers" in an action research. In addition, it analyzed the effectiveness of the action research and explored the content of the proposed mechanism in order to provide a reference for the adjustment of the Teaching Excellence Award Plan. The results showed that the main purpose of the teachers using the mechanism are to "check the latest news/ events message", "access to education-related information", "self -enrichment and access new knowledge". They also use this mechanism to access the "Education Zone", "teaching treasure chest". Teachers think that a teaching excellence-based system should also include the functions of "other education related sites" and "provide more learning activities and information".

The aim of this article is to develop a research framework of entrepreneurship education curriculum for department of marketing and logistics management in technological institutes and universities. This framework proposes three stages. In the first stage, the goal of this stage is to find core competences of marketing and logistics entrepreneurs and to establish competences profile. In the second stag, it will transfer competences profile into entrepreneurship curriculum. The curriculum goal, teaching strategies, teaching materials of entrepreneurship curriculum for department of marketing and logistics management in technological institutes and universities will be established in this stage. In the third stage, the formative evaluation and summative evaluation will be done. Finally, the entrepreneurship education curriculum for department of marketing and logistics management in technological institutes and universities will be developed.

This study aimed to discuss how to incorporate the concept of customer value and value innovation in life logistics services by case study, and redefined and developed an innovative service business strategy model in life logistic companies. The results provide a business model with three stages (preparation, construct model, and construct strategy). The value innovation of life logistics companies is based on customer-oriented concepts, including three operational directions, which are business operational beliefs, integrated information systems, high-quality service teams and mechanisms. With regard to the promotion of value innovation, a market gap must be recognized first, and after defining its position, a value innovation service model and executive strategy are further constructed. In the innovative process, three key success factors (conceptual innovation, 3C technology, and precise position) should be the bases to fully support and fulfill innovative service, and achieve value innovation.

With the progress of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, it has gradually been used on supplying chain activity and process reengineering. To cooperate with this trend, cultivation of medium and high level personnel for aquatic products industry is an important task now or never. This research is according to the conception of three phases curriculum development consisting of preparation, development and improvement, which were proposed by Mager and Beach (1967), and then the applied program and curriculum of aquatic products RFID logistics and supply chain is established. The required work content needed by industries is obtained by investigation on industries requirements, competency analysis is then executed to understand the personnel competency needed by industries, then compare the abilities which student derived from RFID program with the personnel competency needed by industries, the teaching goal is then set up, the evaluation standards for different courses are also determined. Three fundamental required courses and six professional advanced selective courses are presented through above process. The teaching topics, schedule and contents of the program are devised according to the connecting flow map between courses. The accomplishments of this program are evaluated by number of program certificates released, number of students enrolled in this program, program achievement, and related activities carried out. Then on the following four facets iquest faculties, courses, students, overall teaching improvement, and their thirteen indexes, these indicators are used to examine the performance on running this program. Finally, the university centre committee of aquatic products RFID logistics and supply chain will censor the execution of this program, and this would enable to cultivate medium and high level personnel of RFID logistics and supply chain needed by aquatic products industry.

The study aims to explore the extent and depth of electronic commerce employees' professional knowledge in the service industry. To achieve this goal, the study uses interviews and panel discussions to confirm employees' professional knowledge. In addition, the study utilizes transformation of knowledge and ability to select representative knowledge items and to confirm the professional knowledge structure of low-level employees, midlevel leaders, and managers through mental mapping. Employees in electronic commerce times should have these five categories, totaling 95 items, such as essential professional knowledge item; that is, commerce flow, cash flow, information flow, service flow and transportation flow, in order to cultivate employees' abilities of e-commerce effectively. Core professional knowledge of electronic commerce employees should total 2 items including customer service technique and customer satisfaction plan.

The purpose of this study is to develop a practical competency curriculum model for department of Marketing and Logistics Management (MLM) in the technical university in Taiwan. The study firstly discusses the linking problems between business and technical university in Taiwan. Then, the practical competency curriculum developing model for the department of MLM in the technical university is proposed. In this model, there are seven steps that are to collect relative documents and interview with senior business experts, to find industry requirements, to determine competencies profiles, to develop curriculum framework, to confirm faculty and equipment requirements, to determine course flow and to evaluate and make an experimental teaching for this program. The above process has been used in National Penghu University (NPU) and got a sound result.

This study aimed to construct the organizational innovation indicators of technical universities and institutes . T his study held a group discussion and expert focus meeting and afterward, t his study generalized seven facets of school organizational innovation: leadership innovation , administration innovation, student guidance and activity innovation , curriculum and instruction innovation , teacher professional development innovation, resource application innovation, and campus construction innovation. Then 25 criteria and 83 indices were developed.

This study was aimed at investigating the alkaloids present in the leaves of Dehaasia hainanensis. Thirteen isoquinolines were isolated and characterized. Of these, four aporphines [(+)-laurolitsine, (+)-corydine, (+)-laurotetanine and (+)-lindcarpine], two morphinans [(-)-sinoacutine and (-)-ocobotrine], four benzylisoquinolines [(+)-reticuline, (+)-roefractine, (+)-reticuline N-oxide, and O-methylarmepavine], and one bisbenzylisoquinoline [(-)-N,N'-dimethyllindoldhamine] are reported for the first time from Dehaasia species. The structures were elucidated by spectral analysis.

This study was aimed to explore the n-BuOH soluble constituents of the leaves of Alnus formosana Burk. A total of 13 compounds were isolated and characterized. Of these, 2″'-cinnamoyloregonin is a new diaryl heptanoid glycoside. Ten of the remaining twelve known compounds, i.e. platyphylloside, aceroside VII, myzodendrone, quercetin, kaempferol-3-O-rhamnoside, quercetin-3-O-rhamnoside, quercetin-3-O-glucoside, rhamnetin-3-O-rhamnoside, inositol, and shikimic acid, are reported for the first time for an Alnus species. The structures were characterized by spectral analysis.