On Thursday May 29, NOST Shanghai hosted a Bioclouds seminar at the Consulate-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Shanghai, on the subject “Limitations and possibilities for firms to work with Chinese academic institutes”. This meeting was organized in order to introduce the study towards academic excellence and potential for partnerships with the industry in Shanghai, carried out by …
Startmeup Hong Kong Venture Programme looking for promising startups
Following up on last year‘s StartmeupHK venture programme, the Hong Kong government is again looking for worldwide entrepreneurial applicants to participate in the 2014 edition. The StartmeupHK Venture Programme is a global competition for high-impact, innovative and scalable startups who aim to expand their businesses globally from Hong Kong. The programme includes the global competition ‘The 2014 StartmeupHK Grand Awards, …
Hongkong – a new hub for R&D
That is the promising title of a new report published today by the Netherlands Office for Science & Technology in China. The study, conducted at the Netherlands Consulate-General in Hong Kong, extensively maps R&D opportunities for Dutch enterprises and knowledge institutes. A large number of Dutch companies and entrepreneurs are already conducting business in Hong Kong, or use Hong Kong …
China in race to commercialize graphene
Yesterday the Financial Times reported concerns that the EU is lagging behind in terms of R&D spending: “Overall EU R&D spending has remained at about 2 per cent of GDP in the last decade, a long way off the 3 per cent target the EU wants to achieve by 2020. (…) Furthermore, the European Commission estimates that China could overtake …
University in Chengdu testing vacuum tube maglev
Southwest Jiaotong University, a university in Chengdu, Sichuan province, has revealed images of China’s first manned megathermal superconducting maglev (magnetic levitation) loop. The tests are conducted at the university’s Applied Superconductivity Laboratory. Last year in March the lab already completed the first high-temperature superconducting maglev ring test, but now the enclosed tube has been added, allowing researches to lower the …
China’s roadmap for water revealed
One of the most pressing issues of China today is water. The country is faced with severe shortages of water, water pollution and disasters. The need for new solutions to tackle these problems is high and the technology gap in comparison with first world countries is still considerable. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) therefore systematically analyzed the basic characteristics …