From 2015 to 2024, the wind of entrepreneurship will blow from Songshan Lake to the world. On April 25, the launching ceremony of the 2024 "Songhu Cup" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (hereinafter referred to as the "Competition") and the Songshan Lake Science and Technology Policy 2.0 Promotion Conference with the theme of "Gathering Talents in Songshan Lake and Building Dreams in Science City" were held. From now on, the competition will officially open the registration channel to solicit high-quality industries and start-up projects from all over the world.
Huang Leyu, full-time deputy secretary of the Songshan Lake Party Working Committee, Liang Zhanhong, member of the Songshan Lake Party Working Committee and deputy director of the Management Committee, and representatives of Songshan Lake Incubation Park, science and technology enterprises, industry associations, and scientific research institutes attended the event.
Call for projects from all over the world
Create a highland of scientific and technological and industrial innovation
At present, Songshan Lake has gathered 55 academicians and experts and more than 2,000 well-known scientists at home and abroad, established large scientific devices and scientific research platforms such as the China Spallation Neutron Source and Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, 6 colleges and universities, 18 provincial new R&D institutions, and a large number of platform bases for scientific research, talent training, technological innovation, pilot test and industrialization, such as Songshan Lake International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Community, to continue to build a core engine leading the high-quality development of Dongguan and better play the enabling role of Science City.
Huang Leyu said that Songshan Lake will firmly grasp the opportunity of the construction of the pilot launch area of the comprehensive national science center in the Greater Bay Area (Songshan Lake Science City), and hopes to attract more and more talents to Songshan Lake for innovation and entrepreneurship through the competition, unite the scientific and technological innovation forces of all parties at home and abroad, form a strong synergy of efficient coordination and joint promotion of innovation, and strive to build Songshan Lake into a highland of scientific and technological and industrial innovation with global influence.
In recent years, Songshan Lake has taken the lead in the development of new quality productive forces and accelerated its march towards an innovation highland with world influence.
With the launch of the upgraded "Songhu Cup" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and the official issuance of the Science and Technology Policy Version 2.0, Songshan Lake's innovative measures will benefit more entrepreneurs and science and technology enterprises, further stimulate the vitality of Songshan Lake's scientific and technological innovation, improve the efficiency of innovation and entrepreneurship, and continue to inject new momentum into the high-quality development of Songshan Lake.
Upgraded format across the board
Post-competition nurturing runs through the whole life cycle
During the event, the relevant person in charge of the organizing committee of the competition gave an overall introduction to the thinking, process, mechanism, and rewards of this competition.
This year's competition is planned to be held from April to November this year, with five major competition areas, including digital economy, health industry, equipment "intelligent" manufacturing, green industry, industrial design and technology services, and a special session for Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Singapore, as well as a women's special track.
The competition will continue to optimize the post-competition reward model, promote the establishment of worry-free landing awards such as "investment awards", landing subsidies and rental subsidies, and provide "one-stop, full-chain" post-competition cultivation services throughout the whole life cycle for the landing competition projects.
This year's competition will further upgrade the competition system, add project sponsors on the basis of project selection, and link the material laboratory, robot industry base, Guangdong Intelligent Robot Research Institute and Guangdong Qingda Innovation Research Institute in the park as project sponsors and recommendation units to further improve the source and quality of landing projects.
"In first-tier cities such as Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Beijing, there are many good projects. Sun Shoufang, vice president of Guangdong Qingda Innovation Research Institute, said that the institute will select suitable projects from the participating projects of Tsinghua Alumni Innovation Competition for recommendation, introduce more outstanding teams from other provinces to join, and expand the team of "new force" of Songshan Lake Science and Technology.
After the launching ceremony, the organizing committee of the competition will organize preliminary competitions in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Changsha, Xi'an, Wuhan, Chengdu, Dongguan and other cities, and hold monthly promotion meetings in Nanshan, Futian, Baoan, Longhua and Guangming New Districts in Shenzhen to further deepen the linkage between Dongguan and Shenzhen.
Since it was first held in 2015, the "Songhu Cup" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition has become a comprehensive service platform integrating various functions such as technical exchanges, achievement display, capital docking, industrial services, and project landing. Hidden champion enterprises such as contact intelligence are also growing and rising here and moving towards a bigger stage.
"The growth and expansion of Benmo Technology is inseparable from the thoughtful service of the management committee, and Songshan Lake is not only a good property and mentor for entrepreneurs, but also a very good angel investor. Zhang Di, the representative of the previous outstanding participating projects and the chairman of Dongguan Benmo Technology Co., Ltd., said in the sharing that since taking root in Songshan Lake for 8 years, the company has always insisted on being a precision process expert for direct drive components and has achieved leapfrog development. In the first quarter of this year, the operating income of Benmo Technology has exceeded that of last year, exceeding 10 million yuan.
Highlight the main position of enterprise innovation
The New Deal helped generate new quality productivity
At the event, the relevant person in charge of the Songshan Lake Science and Technology Innovation Bureau introduced the 2.0 version of the science and technology policy. From the promotion of source innovation, support of technology research and development, the cultivation of science and technology enterprises, the promotion of the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, the creation of an innovation environment and other key contents to the participants to explain and explain in detail.
The 2.0 version of the Songshan Lake Science and Technology Policy was officially issued in April this year, and the policy accuracy and intensity were further upgraded, which further highlighted the main position of enterprises in innovation, and helped the high-quality development of Songshan Lake Science City.
The event also held a cheque awarding ceremony for the Science and Technology Policy Version 1.0 project, and issued cashing cheques to representatives of enterprises and universities who have won the award of science and technology enterprise cultivation project, science and technology transaction promotion award, science and technology correspondent project funding, and enterprise R&D investment subsidy in 2023.
According to incomplete statistics, since the implementation of version 1.0 of the science and technology policy in 2021, a total of about 520 million yuan has been allocated in three years, benefiting nearly 1,000 enterprises. Among them, about 180 million yuan will be allocated to various innovation entities in the near future for the implementation of science and technology policies.
In order to continue to strengthen the investment promotion of various strategic emerging industries, we sincerely invite outstanding enterprises from all over the world to settle in Songshan Lake Science City, and the event also held a signing ceremony for the latest investment promotion and capital increase and expansion projects of Songshan Lake.
"We are not only interested in the innovative resources of Songshan Lake, but also in its industrial ecology and future development. Chairman Hu Xiaowei said that Songshan Lake has gathered a variety of high-end scientific research institutions and platforms, and scientific and technological support policies are frequent, the company has established a joint engineering center with Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, relying on the laboratory's scientific and technological platform and high-end talents, to achieve a comprehensive improvement in amorphous motor materials, devices and applications.
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