The European Chamber R&D Forum is delighted to offer a seminar on cooperation between European companies and Universities in China.
With China’s labour market getting more and more competitive, companies are increasingly looking into cooperation with universities. Setting up and develop successful R&D cooperation projects with universities and the academic world has become a standard practice for companies all over the world. It ensure strong rooting of the R&D with a specific market, takes advantage of different scientific ideas, establish a network of potential future employees and usually enjoys strong support from the government and local authorities. However and despite of the importance of the Chinese market, companies have to overcome significant challenges in order to successfully develop these kind of partnerships in China, and especially in Shanghai.
Our speakers will present the overall status and trends of the current R&D cooperation between European companies and China, and focus on concrete stories and presentation of successful R&D cooperation between multinational companies and Shanghai Universities.
Agenda
9:00 – 9:05 Welcome Remarks, Pascal Metivier, Chairman of the European Chamber R&D Forum, Rina Joosten, Chair of Bencham innovation platform
9:05 – 9:35 Key drivers, key co-operation models, and key success factors of academic collaborations of multi-national enterprises, Dr. Ulrike Tagscherer, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Joint Center for Innovation Research c/o Institute of Policy and Management Chinese Academy of Sciences
9:35 – 10:05 "Unilever open innovation with Chinese Academia", Mr. Mason Wang, Director Open Innovation, Unilever
10:05 – 10:35 "Setting up international joint cooperation between industry and academia, the example of Shanghai international lab on Eco-Efficient product and processes", Mr. Floryan de Campo, Director of Shanghai Joint international lab on Eco-Efficient product and Processes, Partnership Solvay, ECNU, Fudan, CNRS, ENS Lyon & Lilles University.
10:35 – 10:55 Q&A and Open discussion
10:55 – 11:00 Closing remarks, Pascal Metivier, Chairman of the European Chamber R&D Forum
Registration
Please register on this website (above) or contact Melanie Ullrich at mullrich@europeanchamber.com.cn / (21) 6385 2023, stating your name and company, by Monday, 17 February COB.