Dawan NewsAs a test field for the reform of the province's scientific and technological innovation system and mechanism, USTC Silicon Valley has always attracted much attention. The reporter learned from the USTC Alumni Association that the alumni economy has now become an important part of the modern economic system, and the strategic resources built by relying on the alumni group have become a valuable asset. HKUST Silicon Valley seizes the opportunity of the alumni economy, relying on the ecological network of "Global Alumni Affairs Department + Global Partner + Innovation Center" to fully link resources and bring innovation and entrepreneurship resources together in the "Valley".
Polishing the business card of innovation
Relying on the "Alumni Circle" to leverage the "Industrial Circle", on this road of scientific and technological innovation, the Silicon Valley of HKUST and the alumni economy are going in both directions. On the one hand, the alumni group continues to introduce high-end innovation resources to continuously deliver intellectual resources to the Silicon Valley of HKUST, and on the other hand, the Silicon Valley of HKUST has built a high-level science and technology innovation platform, with high-level follow-up, high-level planning and high-precision docking, so that the majority of alumni can have a stage, space for development and brilliant careers in the Silicon Valley of HKUST, and play a "double play" of alumni economy and science and technology innovation reform in this science and technology innovation valley.
In addition to going out to participate in alumni annual meetings around the world, HKUST Silicon Valley takes benchmarking global partners and enterprises as the "vanguard" of linking resources, deepens the "alumni identity" of enterprises, takes global partners and landed enterprises as "investment business cards", and uses cooperation and landing experience as "investment materials", showing the advantages of the University of Science and Technology Silicon Valley science and technology innovation platform, and releasing the superimposed agglomeration effect of "attracting one and bringing a string".
As the executive chairman of the Zhejiang Alumni Association of USTC, Tu Pingke affectionately appealed at the symposium of the Zhejiang and Anhui alumni organizations: "The Silicon Valley of USTC has become a momentum, and we must actively embrace him." ”
HKUST Silicon Valley gathers alumni strength to promote "alumni + talents" to stay in Anhui, "alumni + technology" to prosper Anhui, "alumni + projects" to gather in Anhui, "alumni + enterprises" to come to Anhui, and "alumni + education" to strengthen Anhui, so as to empower the high-quality development of science and technology.
The tentacles reach overseas
It is reported that HKUST Silicon Valley fully embraces the alumni economy, and unleashes the multiplier effect by gathering global alumni to attract talents from all over the world. Recently, the USTC Silicon Valley Service Platform Company was invited to participate in the 2024 Anhui Fudan University Alumni Association Annual Meeting, the USTC Suzhou Alumni Annual Meeting, the USTC Hubei Alumni Annual Conference and other activities, to share friendship and seek common development with alumni from all over the world, and build a bridge between the innovation platform and alumni organizations.
Since its establishment more than a year ago, HKUST Silicon Valley has joined forces with more than 90 universities such as Stanford University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, contacted more than 120 alumni organizations, and held multiple rounds of promotion activities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and other places.
In the future, HKUST Silicon Valley will nurture alumni economy to empower new quality productivity and cultivate a good ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Implement multiple new additions
The reporter noticed that not long ago, USTC Silicon Valley also posted its 2023 report card. In 2023, under the leadership of Hefei City, HKUST Silicon Valley will recruit innovation partners globally, build 36 high-quality innovation units, lay out 9 innovation centers at home and abroad, set up 13 early-investment kids, build 3 million square meters of high-quality innovation and entrepreneurship carriers, add more than 800 new landing science and technology projects, add more than 10,000 new entrepreneurial and employment talents, add 113 new national high-tech enterprises, and add 265 high-growth enterprises such as gazelles, potential unicorns, and unicorns.
It is reported that the recruitment of "global partners" of HKUST Silicon Valley has also been effective. In the past year, HKUST Silicon Valley has signed contracts with 28 global partner institutions, including Puyue China, Lihe Kechuang and Haierhai Chuanghui, to realize the transformation of investment entities from ** to professional partners, project introduction from single to batch, and project services from single point to matrix. The partners recommended more than 500 project clues, and led more than 120 enterprise groups to Feifei to inspect the investment environment and meet needs.
Dawan News reporter Chen Mu.