On 14 June 2019, the Thematic Exchange on Innovation and Entrepreneurship & Inaugural Ceremony of Hangzhou International Startup Club was successfully held in the Dream Town. The event was staged during the 2019 National Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week to build an open and shared international innovation and entrepreneurship platform to attract global innovation resources, promote overseas entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs in Hangzhou to form an “international innovation community” and help Hangzhou and talents in Hangzhou to go global.
The event was jointly hosted by the BRLC Secretariat, Talent Office of Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Foreign Affairs Office of Hangzhou Municipal People's Government, and Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League of China. It was organized by Hangzhou College Student Entrepreneurship Union and Hangzhou Youth Talents Workstation under the great support of 500 Startups, the Innovation Center of the Hangzhou Vanke Industry and Urban Development Co., Ltd., Microsoft Scaleup and the Venture Capital Center in conjunction with organizations including Plug and Play, Nihub, Wework, SAP NextGen, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SEB, Crejoy Plus and My Homie. Mao Xihao, Member of Standing Committee and Director of Organization Department of Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, attended the event and made a speech. Heads of the Talent Office of Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Foreign Affairs Office of Hangzhou Municipal People's Government, and Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League of China were also present.
A New Pattern of Innovative Resources
On the same day, Hangzhou International Startup Club was formally established. The club will play an active role in building a platform for communication, training and cooperation among international entrepreneurs in Hangzhou and helping them better integrated into Hangzhou and seek greater development. The club aims to build a passage that links Hangzhou with the outside world and facilitate international development of the city by mobilizing exiting talents for attracting more and promoting Hangzhou.
Five founders of the club, who are Rondez Lucas from Switzerland and Hangzhou Nihub Network Technology Co., Ltd., Lauri Tammi from Finland, President (Founder) of Hangzhou Menglu Technology Consultancy Co., Ltd., Alfonso Araujo, President of Mexico-China Center, Erik Forsberg from Sweden, CEO (Co-founder) of China InnoBridge Co., Ltd. and Deependra Kumar Sah, Founder and CEO of Dr. Deepen (Hangzhou) Cultural Creative Co., Ltd., made a collective appearance at the inaugural ceremony. They appointed the persons in charge of local venture capital service agencies and incubators as the first advisory group, which includes Hangzhou Huadan Danyang Investment Management Co., Ltd., 500 Startups Hangzhou, the Innovation Lab of Vanke Industry and Urban Development Co., Ltd., TusStar, Wework, Zhejiang Haichuang Sci-tech Communication Institute, Zhejiang Haibang Investment Management Co., Ltd., Welian and Xilian Yunxiang Investment Management Co., Ltd.
At the ceremony, the logo of Hangzhou International Start-up Club was also unveiled. Its design is a combination of three elements: Hangzhou and the outside world, the Belt and Road and development, and entrepreneurship and alliance. The logo is centered on bridge in Hangzhou, which symbolize the bridge of communication. Red, yellow, blue and green from the Belt and Road indicate international communication and integration. The element of four-pointed stars, inspired by entrepreneurs, represents vitality and innovation. The entire design of the logo conveys a beautiful vision where international talents find inspirations and produce new ideas in the club to create the future together.
New Concepts for Entrepreneurship
Innovation sustains social progress while entrepreneurship plays an important part in fostering social and economic development. Against the backdrop of new situations in global industrial competition, only those who make innovations will move forward, gain strength and stand out as winners. Centered on the increasing innovation challenges, Zhou Jian, CEO and Managing Director of Microsoft Accelerator North Asia, and Wilfried Buiron, a French entrepreneur, delivered a keynote speech with the topics of “Microsoft Empowers Your Entrepreneurship Dream” and “Starting a Business in China - Hope on the 2nd Floor”, respectively, during the exchange session. Mr. Zhou Jian started his speech with Microsoft Incubation Centers and introduced the growth mode based on an overall entrepreneurship path. He explained with examples that technologies of large enterprises can help small and micro ones test and verify their ideas, and that most entrepreneurs can make certain achievements. Mr. Wilfried Buiron emphasized in his speech that entrepreneurs need more professional assistance to start a business and are necessary to attach greater importance to teamwork, and international entrepreneurs in Hangzhou, in particular, need to learn Chinese and find a Chinese partner.
During the event, a round-table workshop was also held for international entrepreneurs in Hangzhou and venture capital companies. Heated discussions were carried out among seven representatives including three international entrepreneurs – Rondez Lucas, Lauri Tammi, and Erik Forsberg – and four representatives of local investment companies, entrepreneurial parks and incubators: Zheng Sida, Head of 500 Startups Hangzhou; Shen Chuanli, Head of the Innovation Lab of Vanke Industry and Urban Development Co., Ltd.; Zhu Bo, Community Manager at WeWork; and Sun Bin, Project Manager of SAP Next-Gen China. They shared their entrepreneurial experience and cases of successful incubation, analyzed main existing challenges and problems faced by international entrepreneurs, and discussed how to improve compatibility with international rules, how to exploit the Chinese market, how to be integrated into the local society, and other topics. They all agreed that Hangzhou enjoys a favorable entrepreneurial system and environment, Hangzhou government provides great policy support to entrepreneurs, and furthermore, the city's profound history and culture add to itself extraordinary inclusiveness. They said that Hangzhou enables international entrepreneurs to find mutual support so that they can communicate with each other, make progress jointly and have enough confidence to face entrepreneurship challenges.
In recent years, Hangzhou has attracted much attention at home and abroad as a city of innovation and entrepreneurship. It has taken such measures as innovating more competitive mechanisms for introducing international talents, creating dynamic platforms to pool international talents, and optimizing and ensuring efficient and convenient international talent services, to attract global talents to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship in Hangzhou. As an innovative measure of Hangzhou to help Hangzhou and talents in Hangzhou go global, the Hangzhou International Start-up Club acts as a sound platform for integration of international entrepreneurial talents, cutting-edge ideas and science and technology innovation concepts. It will play an active role in building Hangzhou into an international center for innovation and entrepreneurship.
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On 14 June 2019, the Thematic Exchange on Innovation and Entrepreneurship & Inaugural Ceremony of Hangzhou International Startup Club was successfully held in the Dream Town. The event was staged during the 2019 National Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week to build an open and shared international innovation and entrepreneurship platform to attract global innovation resources, promote overseas entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs in Hangzhou to form an “international innovation community” and help Hangzhou and talents in Hangzhou to go global.
The event was jointly hosted by the BRLC Secretariat, Talent Office of Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Foreign Affairs Office of Hangzhou Municipal People's Government, and Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League of China. It was organized by Hangzhou College Student Entrepreneurship Union and Hangzhou Youth Talents Workstation under the great support of 500 Startups, the Innovation Center of the Hangzhou Vanke Industry and Urban Development Co., Ltd., Microsoft Scaleup and the Venture Capital Center in conjunction with organizations including Plug and Play, Nihub, Wework, SAP NextGen, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SEB, Crejoy Plus and My Homie. Mao Xihao, Member of Standing Committee and Director of Organization Department of Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, attended the event and made a speech. Heads of the Talent Office of Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Foreign Affairs Office of Hangzhou Municipal People's Government, and Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League of China were also present.
A New Pattern of Innovative Resources
On the same day, Hangzhou International Startup Club was formally established. The club will play an active role in building a platform for communication, training and cooperation among international entrepreneurs in Hangzhou and helping them better integrated into Hangzhou and seek greater development. The club aims to build a passage that links Hangzhou with the outside world and facilitate international development of the city by mobilizing exiting talents for attracting more and promoting Hangzhou.
Five founders of the club, who are Rondez Lucas from Switzerland and Hangzhou Nihub Network Technology Co., Ltd., Lauri Tammi from Finland, President (Founder) of Hangzhou Menglu Technology Consultancy Co., Ltd., Alfonso Araujo, President of Mexico-China Center, Erik Forsberg from Sweden, CEO (Co-founder) of China InnoBridge Co., Ltd. and Deependra Kumar Sah, Founder and CEO of Dr. Deepen (Hangzhou) Cultural Creative Co., Ltd., made a collective appearance at the inaugural ceremony. They appointed the persons in charge of local venture capital service agencies and incubators as the first advisory group, which includes Hangzhou Huadan Danyang Investment Management Co., Ltd., 500 Startups Hangzhou, the Innovation Lab of Vanke Industry and Urban Development Co., Ltd., TusStar, Wework, Zhejiang Haichuang Sci-tech Communication Institute, Zhejiang Haibang Investment Management Co., Ltd., Welian and Xilian Yunxiang Investment Management Co., Ltd.
At the ceremony, the logo of Hangzhou International Start-up Club was also unveiled. Its design is a combination of three elements: Hangzhou and the outside world, the Belt and Road and development, and entrepreneurship and alliance. The logo is centered on bridge in Hangzhou, which symbolize the bridge of communication. Red, yellow, blue and green from the Belt and Road indicate international communication and integration. The element of four-pointed stars, inspired by entrepreneurs, represents vitality and innovation. The entire design of the logo conveys a beautiful vision where international talents find inspirations and produce new ideas in the club to create the future together.
New Concepts for Entrepreneurship
Innovation sustains social progress while entrepreneurship plays an important part in fostering social and economic development. Against the backdrop of new situations in global industrial competition, only those who make innovations will move forward, gain strength and stand out as winners. Centered on the increasing innovation challenges, Zhou Jian, CEO and Managing Director of Microsoft Accelerator North Asia, and Wilfried Buiron, a French entrepreneur, delivered a keynote speech with the topics of “Microsoft Empowers Your Entrepreneurship Dream” and “Starting a Business in China - Hope on the 2nd Floor”, respectively, during the exchange session. Mr. Zhou Jian started his speech with Microsoft Incubation Centers and introduced the growth mode based on an overall entrepreneurship path. He explained with examples that technologies of large enterprises can help small and micro ones test and verify their ideas, and that most entrepreneurs can make certain achievements. Mr. Wilfried Buiron emphasized in his speech that entrepreneurs need more professional assistance to start a business and are necessary to attach greater importance to teamwork, and international entrepreneurs in Hangzhou, in particular, need to learn Chinese and find a Chinese partner.
During the event, a round-table workshop was also held for international entrepreneurs in Hangzhou and venture capital companies. Heated discussions were carried out among seven representatives including three international entrepreneurs – Rondez Lucas, Lauri Tammi, and Erik Forsberg – and four representatives of local investment companies, entrepreneurial parks and incubators: Zheng Sida, Head of 500 Startups Hangzhou; Shen Chuanli, Head of the Innovation Lab of Vanke Industry and Urban Development Co., Ltd.; Zhu Bo, Community Manager at WeWork; and Sun Bin, Project Manager of SAP Next-Gen China. They shared their entrepreneurial experience and cases of successful incubation, analyzed main existing challenges and problems faced by international entrepreneurs, and discussed how to improve compatibility with international rules, how to exploit the Chinese market, how to be integrated into the local society, and other topics. They all agreed that Hangzhou enjoys a favorable entrepreneurial system and environment, Hangzhou government provides great policy support to entrepreneurs, and furthermore, the city's profound history and culture add to itself extraordinary inclusiveness. They said that Hangzhou enables international entrepreneurs to find mutual support so that they can communicate with each other, make progress jointly and have enough confidence to face entrepreneurship challenges.
In recent years, Hangzhou has attracted much attention at home and abroad as a city of innovation and entrepreneurship. It has taken such measures as innovating more competitive mechanisms for introducing international talents, creating dynamic platforms to pool international talents, and optimizing and ensuring efficient and convenient international talent services, to attract global talents to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship in Hangzhou. As an innovative measure of Hangzhou to help Hangzhou and talents in Hangzhou go global, the Hangzhou International Start-up Club acts as a sound platform for integration of international entrepreneurial talents, cutting-edge ideas and science and technology innovation concepts. It will play an active role in building Hangzhou into an international center for innovation and entrepreneurship.
