China News Service, Guangzhou, June 11 (Reporter Wang Jian) Relevant persons in charge of 17 universities including Sun Yat-sen University, South China University of Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, etc. gathered in Guangzhou University Town a few days ago. At the launching ceremony of the training camp and summer camp, the training of innovative talents and the innovation and entrepreneurship of hard technology were exchanged.
At the event, Li Zexiang, the founder of XbotPark Robot Base and a professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, gave a speech on the theme of "New Manufacturing and the 'University' Economy".
He believes that colleges and universities should encourage students with ideas to embark on the path of innovation and entrepreneurship; the state also attaches great importance to related issues, not only establishing more than 100 university science parks across the country, but also proposing an innovation model of "discipline + innovation + industry".
Li Zexiang said that he quite recognizes the sensitivity and creativity of young people in the C-end market, but at present this development model still faces big problems. The connection between universities and research institutes is weak, and students still have experience and technology to start their own businesses. , supply chain, interdisciplinary team, lack of immersive environment and excellent mentor team.
In order to better help young people who are passionate about hard technology to successfully start a business and give their ideas a chance to be implemented, Li Zexiang founded the XbotPark robot base in 2014, allowing young people with dreams and creativity to explore how to start a business here. Own company.
So far, more than 60 companies and projects have been incubated here, 15% of which have become unicorns or quasi-unicorns, covering smart home products, pet smart products, and smart sports products. The total market valuation more than 80 billion yuan.
At the same time, based on the understanding of hard technology entrepreneurship, XbotPark summed up the experience and lessons of the base enterprises in the process of entrepreneurship, and combined with top industry resources, launched a science and technology training camp in 2019.
The science and technology training camp is held in summer and winter every year. During the whole camp period, XbotPark creates a truly immersive entrepreneurial environment for students, allowing students from different professional fields to form teams, with the help of entrepreneurial mentors, in 3 weeks to 6 weeks Quick trial and error in the middle of the week, and experience the whole process of hard technology entrepreneurship.
This year, we will focus on smart home, with a professional team of entrepreneurial mentors, and invite senior practitioners in the industry to help campers explore hard technology entrepreneurship from perspectives, methods, resources, and communities.
It is worth mentioning that the XbotPark Science and Technology Innovation Training Camp does not charge any fees for the talents who have signed up and entered the selection process. After the camp period, the excellent projects that have been evaluated by the tutors have the opportunity to join the XbotPark entrepreneurial family and obtain the investment of the base.
"I hope that educational reforms, science and technology training camps, entrepreneurial exploration and incubation can all be linked together to construct a hard technology entrepreneurial ecosystem that connects schools, industries, and markets." Li Zexiang also pointed out that the training camp is only to cultivate hard technology entrepreneurial talents. One of the links, in order to achieve real results, needs to start from the new engineering education and pay attention to the accumulation of students' practice.
Li Zexiang hopes that Guangzhou University Town, XbotPark Robot Base and other units can fully cooperate in the future to form a more complete scientific and technological innovation ecosystem and help more young people with entrepreneurial ideals to achieve their aspirations.
Yang Jun, deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology and acting director of the National Technology Innovation Center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, also said that he hoped that on the larger platform of the National Technology Innovation Center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, more entrepreneurs with dreams of technology entrepreneurship would be created. In the future, more star startups will be built in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
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