China News Service, Beijing, March 20th, title: Zhongguancun becomes a harbor for overseas talent entrepreneurship
China News Agency reporter Yu Lixiao
Known as the "Silicon Valley of China", Zhongguancun has seized the opportunity of overseas talent return, introduced policies to attract talents, improved service quality, broadened financing channels, and optimized the entrepreneurial environment. This not only attracted a large number of outstanding overseas scientific and technological talents to settle down, but also helped them grow into Zhongguancun innovation. The main force of entrepreneurship.
Haichuang Park creates an "overseas environment"
As an important carrier for attracting and serving overseas talents to return to China for innovation and entrepreneurship, the Zhongguancun Overseas Talent Pioneer Park (hereinafter referred to as "Haichuang Park") has explored a full-chain and seamless innovation and entrepreneurship service system to create a unique "overseas-like" service system for overseas talents. Environment" allows overseas returnees and foreign talents to come in, stay, do a good job, and integrate.
Chen Kuan returned to China from the University of Chicago in 2015 to start a business. He was introduced by Haichuang Park as a scientific and technological talent, and founded Beijing Tuxiang Medical Technology Co., Ltd. in 2016.
As the founder of Inferred Technology, Chen Kuan said that the development potential and social value of artificial intelligence + medical treatment made him give up his double Ph.D degree and the opportunity to work on Wall Street, and finally chose to return to his country to start a business.
And attracting him to start a business in Zhongguancun is the unique innovation "gene" here.
After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, under the leadership of Chen Kuan, Inference Technology took the lead in launching an artificial intelligence product for new crown pneumonia in China-pneumonia intelligent auxiliary screening and epidemic monitoring system, which not only landed in dozens of domestic hospitals to fight the epidemic "He also entered hospitals in North America, Europe, Japan and other countries and regions to help fight the epidemic.
The pulmonary nodule artificial intelligence products developed by Inference Technology have obtained the four major certifications of China's NMPA, EU CE, Japan PMDA, and US FDA, making it the only artificial intelligence medical company approved for the four major markets in the world.
Chen Kuan said: "The reason why we can do our best to achieve product innovation is that Zhongguancun has prepared all the innovative resources for the enterprise." Agglomeration of industries, diverse talents, and sound innovation mechanism...Zhongguancun’s entrepreneurial environment, Attract overseas talents like Chen Kuan to innovate and start businesses here.
In recent years, overseas talents have become an important part of the innovation and entrepreneurship team in Zhongguancun.
Among the entrepreneurs in Zhongguancun, more than 30% have a background of studying abroad or working overseas. Returned entrepreneurs have become the main force of entrepreneurship in Zhongguancun.
Since the establishment of the first Haichuang Park in 1997, Zhongguancun has owned 45 Haichuang Parks and has attracted more than 6,000 overseas talent start-up companies.
Cultivate a group of outstanding returnees leading enterprises
Recently, Beijing Xingkangyuan Biotechnology Co., Ltd. announced the completion of a US$30 million Series A financing.
Xingkang was originally a bio-high-tech company that combines artificial intelligence and biophysics to conduct drug research and development. It was founded by Chen Hang, who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.
In only half a year, Xingkang originally built a next-generation innovative drug R&D platform based on the trinity of "artificial intelligence + biophysics + high throughput", and derived several innovative drug R&D pipelines, and achieved very good preclinical progress. Many drugs will enter the PCC (preclinical candidate compound) stage.
As the main position for overseas talents to innovate and start businesses in China, Haichuang Park provides suitable entrepreneurial places, platforms and environments for high-quality overseas entrepreneurial projects, cultivates a group of outstanding overseas returnees leading enterprises, and forms "people follow the industry and produce talents." "Come" development pattern.
Currently, Haichuang Park has formed an industrial agglomeration effect, and its research and development results have been significantly improved.
According to the data, Haichuang Park enterprises have obtained 20,676 intellectual property rights, 2827 scientific and technological achievements transformation projects, and 951 research projects in 2020 alone. The total R&D investment of the enterprise is as high as 2.043 billion yuan.
Optimize the entrepreneurial environment for overseas returnees
In recent years, the trend of “return” of overseas talents has appeared. For this reason, the Zhongguancun Management Committee issued the "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Construction of Zhongguancun Overseas Talent Pioneer Park", which aims to improve the work system, improve service capabilities, support the development of enterprises, and broaden financing channels. Supporting the development of outstanding overseas talents in Beijing and optimizing the business environment for overseas talents, 17 specific measures have been proposed.
Exploring the "pre-incubation" of overseas projects, innovation teams that are still overseas can also apply for disruptive technology research and development and achievement transformation funds, and provide financial support to the Haichuang Park that supports overseas talent entrepreneurs to obtain financing... The feature of this new deal is pre-service Intensify efforts to attract scientific and technological talents who are still overseas.
The person in charge of the Zhongguancun Management Committee said that in the future, Zhongguancun will continue to increase policy support to create an ideal home for innovation and entrepreneurship for talents with innovative potential and entrepreneurial dreams all over the world.
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