China rapid economic development is attracting the world attention. In the context of economic globalization featuring internationalization of R&D and technology transfer, China burgeoning economy is now ushering in another excellent opportunity.
Jiangsu, located in the coastal area of eastern China and neighboring Shanghai, is highly opened up to the world. Being one of the well developing and most dynamic provinces in China, Jiangsu is experiencing a brand new period of economic boom. It annual growth rate of GDP averages to 15% over the past 5 years. And in the year of 2007, the per capita GDP reached to 4,428 US dollars.
With strong footing on industries, a good many research institutes and huge market potential, Jiangsu has become the important manufacturing hub in China and even across the world. There is a solid fundation here for the international technology transfer, application and diffusion. Jiangsu provincial government has been attaching great importance to the protection and utilization of intellectual property and has forged a more perfect legal environment. Jiangsu has become the first choice for the foreign companies to conduct the joint R&D and the commercialization.
Industries in Jiangsu have been active in innovation and technology interaction. They aspire for international cooperation and have vigorous needs for the world-class technologies. Also they are quite capable of absorbing, digesting and commercializing technologies.
To better match the technological needs from Jiangsu with the international innovative resources, and to promote the internationalization of innovation and R&D , Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Technology, PRC and Science and Technology Department of Jiangsu Provincial Government work together to hold 鈥淭he First China Jiangsu Conference for International Technology Transfer & Commercialization鈥?