Entrepreneurship competition held

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Category: Ningbo Business

Published: Tuesday, 01 June 2021 12:58

On the evening of May 29, an overseas entrepreneurship competition across time zones and oceans for high-level talents was held. Ten overseas high-level entrepreneurship and innovation talent projects from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries and regions came to compete on the same stage in the Haishu District of Ningbo.
According to a person in charge of the Human Resources and Social Security Department of Haishu District, in 2020, together with PhDsNetwork of Canada, the district set up a Canadian offshore incubator and an overseas industry research institute in Ningbo. With Montreal of Canada as a pilot city, the organization aims to provide a good entrepreneurial environment and close entrepreneurial support for entrepreneurial talents from Canada. In August 2020, the overseas entrepreneurship competition for high-level talents was launched. In the preliminary stage, 410 high-level talents from all over the world signed up for the competition, and 82 candidate projects covered various emerging industries and high-end service industries. Finally, 10 high-quality entrepreneurial and innovative talent projects  entered the finals, including the technology and its industrialization of new low torque super-soft yarn, the children's healthy diet application platform based on artificial intelligence, and leukocyte patch for chronic wound treatment.

In the evening, entrepreneurs from different time zones are closely connected with Haishu District through cloud connection. The ten project teams came on stage in turn to give a detailed introduction on technical advantages and project industrialization, so as to maximize the characteristics and advantages, application and prospects of their own projects.
In recent years, Haishu District has attached great importance to such industries as fashion textiles and clothing, automobiles, and new materials to create a new highland of the "246 billion-level" industrial clusters. In this process, the district, by focusing on the key element of talents, has actively done a good job in talent introduction and education, and vigorously introduced high-level entrepreneurship and innovation talents projects from overseas. In 2018, the district launched the a special plan to provide strong financial support for all kinds of innovative and entrepreneurial talents. It has contributed to the settlement of more than 100 innovative talents projects in Haishu District. The district has ranked first in the city for three consecutive years in terms of the total number of projects recommended to be included in the municipal talent plan