NEWS-Nankai University (Correspondent: Pei Suyu) The Dean of the College of Pharmacy and his team attended the scientific achievement transformation salon held by Zhangjiang Industry Innovation Alliance in Shanghai to commercialize its scientific and technological achievements, drive its teachers and students in scientific and technological innovation, and encourage them to make more original high-quality achievements. The event provides a channel for teachers to promote their projects. Attendees included relevant principals of the Office of Scientific and Technological Development and Achievement Transformation of the Scientific Research Department, Nankai University (NKU), representatives of Shanghai alumni enterprises, and leaders of Zhangjiang Industry Innovation Alliance.
At the beginning of the event, Zhang Aiping, the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors and President of Zhangjiang Industry Innovation Alliance, gave a welcome speech, stating that NKU is a long-term ideal partner of the Alliance and that the cooperation with NKU presents mutual benefit and win-win result. He expected more opportunities to learn about the innovative projects of the College of Pharmacy, NKU, and welcomed NKU to open south.
In his speech, the Dean of the College of Pharmacy, NKU, said that innovative research relies on intellectual resources, and that to better serve economic and social development and play a valuable role, the intellectual resources in universities need to go through commercialization of achievements. Attending this salon is to look for more space and opportunities for the commercialization of research innovation projects of the College of Pharmacy as well as long-term interaction and in-depth cooperation in the future.
Xia Zixi, the Operations Director of Zhangjiang Industry Innovation Alliance, gave a detailed introduction to the operation mechanism, the entire process of commercialization of scientific and technological achievements, and the brand and product systems of the Alliance. The Dean of the College of Pharmacy introduced the arrangement of subjects, platform construction, talent team, student training, scientific research achievements, and research team of the College, and stated that the College strives to create a great atmosphere to fully support teachers in innovative research and build a platform for commercialization of achievements. Professor Su Bo, Professor Sun Tao, Professor Shi Kai, and Professor Wu Qian of the College presented research content and innovative projects of their research teams respectively. Song Xiaojing from the Office of Scientific and Technological Development and Achievement Transformation of the Scientific Research Department, NKU, introduced NKU’s achievement commercialization strategies and the expectation of building an interactive platform of achievement commercialization for NKU, enterprises, and the Alliance.
Subsequently, representatives of alumni enterprises shared their experience in starting a business and commercializing achievements in turn. Hu Landian, the Vice President of the Shanghai Alumni Association and the Chairman of Anda Biology Medicine Development (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., shared her course from a scientist to an entrepreneur and pointed out a big difference between students' scientific research on campus and industry practice and the demand of broadening thinking and mutual learning; Jiang Lei, the Vice President of the Shanghai Alumni Association and the Chairman of Shanghai Ennovabio Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd., said that pharmaceutical research in schools should be different from that in enterprises and that school scientific research setting the pace made the commercialization of achievements more valuable and meaningful; Zhang Kui, the Vice President of the Shanghai Alumni Association and the Chairman of Shanghai Zhiyue Investment Management Co., Ltd., delivered a speech as a representative of investment enterprises, expressing the hope of having more opportunities to invest in the projects conducted by teachers of the College of Pharmacy, NKU; Du Hongxin, the Executive Director of the Shanghai Alumni Association and a technical broker of NKU, introduced the process of incubating a laboratory research project into products, and the process of enterprises bringing up horizontal topics, guiding professional teachers to answer questions, and promoting innovative research.
Finally, the team of the College of Pharmacy and the representatives of alumni enterprises had a heated discussion in the salon. Everyone expected more cooperation opportunities to effectively promote the commercialization and implementation of scientific research achievements of the College of Pharmacy. Relying on the close cooperation between the Shanghai Alumni Association and Zhangjiang Industry Innovation Alliance, the College of Pharmacy will boost the development of high-level science and technology, expand the external channel for the college resources, improve the commercialization efficiency, open up new fields, and race to control new tracks in the future.
According to reports, Zhangjiang Industry Innovation Alliance is an alliance organization and engineering platform established by Shanghai Zhangjiang Group Co., Ltd. in collaboration with multiple universities, financial investment institutions, companies of the industry, and technology service institutions. The Alliance is committed to the work of the linkage of high-quality education, research, and production resources at home and abroad, investment and incubation of innovative achievements, and transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. By actively linking the advantageous resources of the innovation entities, industries, funds, and service providers and making transformation focusing on the original innovation, the Alliance has held the "Achievements π", the roadshow of scientific and technological achievements in colleges and universities, conducted the "Alumni π", the alumni brand promotion event for colleges and universities, set up "College π", business training courses, and established "Angle π", a fund for commercialization of scientific and technological achievements.
