Holland’s Brightland’s sets up technology transfer alliance with Chinese partner
May 28, 2019 Category China News Round-up, Weekly
At the three-day Pujiang Innovation Forum, a technology transfer alliance was set up between China’s National Eastern Tech-Transfer Center (NETC) and Dutch innovation community Brightlands. The Center’s European headquarters was also inaugurated in the Netherlands. Technology transfer works as a foundation for science-business ecosystems in the Netherlands, said Jan Cobbenhagen, CEO of the Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus. Brightlands gathers students, researchers, entrepreneurs and investors in four themed campuses to develop solutions in the fields of biomedicine, nutrition and farming, big data and smart services, materials and sustainable chemicals. By bringing together talent in different fields, it forms a regional knowledge platform.
Key factors to establish successful science-business parks, according to Cobbenhagen, include great people, active shareholding and a harmonious partnership of university, government and business. NETC’s cooperation with Brightlands and establishment of its new European headquarters aims to deepen scientific exchange and technological cooperation between the two countries. Researchers, universities and companies will have platforms to share information and have their ideas incubated in overseas markets.
At a seminar, some 20 speakers shared their views on policy, the environment, practices and vision for science and technology innovation cooperation along the Belt and Road. Yan Lijin, President of the Silk Road Group, introduced the “Digital Silk Road” project. It covers the public and professional services of global geographic information, global sustainable development and construction of a “global spatial information corridor”, the Shanghai Daily reports.
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