有朋从加拿大杜兰郡来,友好省州擦出科创火花
Ishaan Singlar, who attended a high-tech economic promotion seminar at the Jiangsu-based Mengery Corporation?in Nanjing, Jiangsu province on May 22, had never known he would have spend his birthday in this way.
回忆起这一天的行程,他意犹未尽,跟随着加拿大安大略省杜兰郡经济和旅游发展局局长凯西·韦斯女士来南京寻求合作,他向中国朋友们介绍了基于物联网的WeTraq智能追踪器。
He is still very excited about the trip that day. Following the Canadian business delegation led by Kathy Weiss, Director of Canadian?Economic Development and Tourism Commission, Ishaan introduced WeTraq at the seminar, a?credit card sized tracking device on IoT.
加拿大代表团此行诚意满满,一直致力于促进和发展高科技创新企业的创业孵化和后续发展的加拿大火花科创中心总裁雪莉·科本专门介绍了她们的“签证项目”和“软着陆项目”,只要公司在加拿大注册有效,就可以方便进出加拿大,项目虽然才运行了一年左右,已经吸引了相当一部分企业来杜兰郡发展。“软着陆”项目是专门针对外来的创业公司,帮助他们更好更快地融入当地的经济文化环境,可以说是相当贴心了。
Sherry Colbourne, Chairman and CEO of Spark Center, also introduced the favorable “Visa Program”, which supports entrepreneurs?to come to Canada and to grow their businesses in Durham. Despite the short operation time for only one year, it has already attracted talents from a number of regions from the world. They have also developed a soft-landing program for foreign start-ups, which ensures companies coming to Durham to properly integrate?into the cultural and business environment there.
代表团成员们还见证了加中创新城(CCIC)集团与加拿大大山航空发展集团“共同打造加中创新城航空教育科研产业基地”的签约仪式和加拿大江苏国际商会聘任副会长和荣誉会长的仪式。这两个仪式跟伊森日后的发展息息相关,航空教育科研产业基地跟WeTraq都要入驻加中创新城,将来就是街坊邻居了。而加拿大江苏国际商会是一个服务安大略省和江苏省商界人士和企业代表的非营利性组织。
那么CCIC是什么?
加中创新城CCIC
加中创新城是由加拿大枫叶能源集团牵头投资,中加两国政府重点支持的、数十家中加科技企业及基金共同参与打造的中加双边园区。在安大略省皮克灵市和江苏省南京市分别设立园区,通过“两国一园,双城联动”的模式,为两省乃至两国打造双边“离岸孵化,离岸研发,科技同享,资本互助,人才共用”的国际合作平台。
加拿大园区项目总面积约500英亩(约3035亩),总投资50亿加元(约248亿元人民币),计划吸引500家创新型企业入驻。目前,园区已经完成前期准备工作,基础设施建设已进行了两年多,吸引了加拿大皇家科学院院士Michael Siu、加拿大工程院院士周松年等十几位院士加盟,还有枫叶能源、斯坦德云科技、中国城投集团、华航集团、麦伦思科技等二十多家中加企业签约准备入驻。