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Hengqin to hold global innovation and entrepreneurship competition

The Administration Committee of Hengqin New Area announced on 16 May that it will hold a global innovation and entrepreneurship competition every year starting in 2018. Participants are not limited to nationality and the winning team will receive RMB100 million as research and development funding.

The key selection scope of the competition is new strategic emerging industries including the generation of information technology, biomedicine, the digital economy, new materials and the marine economy. It will focus on supporting innovative and entrepreneurial teams that have achieved advanced innovation results and breakthroughs in core key technologies with a promising industrialization prospect.

According to the Hengqin government, each year’s competition will select 10 winning teams. The top team will be supported with RMB100 million in funding with the remaining nine to receive between RMB50 million and RMB10 million.

All of the winning teams will register and establish an entity with an independent legal personality in Hengqin before they receive their funding. They must carry out actual business activities or research in Hengqin New Area, the Zhuhai Free Trade Zone and the neighboring Hongwan and Wanzai areas that integrate into Zhuhai’s new city center, with the promise not to relocate inside eight years.

The primary team members will be required to work full-time in Hengqin for at least three months each year and intellectual property rights shall apply mainly in Hengqin.

The inaugural competition will open for online registration in June this year with winners announced by December.

The Administrative Committee of Hengqin New Area will be the organizer, entrusting professional institutions to undertake the project and inviting national technical experts, venture investment experts and industrial economic experts to serve as judges.

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橫琴新區管委會日前宣布自今年起將每年面向全球舉辦一屆創新創業大賽,參賽者不限國籍。每屆大賽將評選出一支特級優勝團隊,並無償給予一億元的研發資助。

大賽重點選拔範圍是新一代信息技術、生物醫藥、數字經濟、新材料、海洋經濟等戰略性新興產業領域,重點支持取得先進創新成果、實現核心關鍵技術突破、具有良好產業化前景的創新創業團隊。

根據規定,每屆大賽選拔特級優勝團隊1個,資助1億元﹔一級優勝團隊2個,分別資助5000萬元﹔二級優勝團隊3個,分別資助2000萬元﹔三級優勝團隊4個,分別資助1000萬元。

優勝團隊在獲資助前須在橫琴新區注冊成立具有獨立法人資格的實體企業,須在橫琴、保稅、洪灣一體化區域內開展研發、辦公等實際經營活動,並承諾8年內不遷出、不改變納稅義務。優勝團隊至少由1名領軍人物和不少於2名核心成員組成,主要成員每年在橫琴全職工作三個月以上,並且知識產權主要在橫琴新區申報。

首屆大賽將於今年6月啟動網絡報名,11月在橫琴現場答辯決選。橫琴新區管委會將作為大賽主辦單位,委托專業機構承辦,並邀請國家級技術專家、風險投資專家和產業經濟專家擔任評委。

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