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Best Practice for STP WTR 2015;4:247-258 http://dx.doi.org/10.7165/wtr2015.4.4.247 OPEN ACCESS Innovation Ecosystem Building in TusPark: Batch Transformation Mechanism of TusPark Nanotechnology Achievements Herbert Chen1* and Quanhong Shen2 TusPark, Beijing, China 1. INTRODUCTION pact on social and economic development, national security, people’s lifestyle, and production method in the 21st Century; To bridge research and industrialization and achieve true therefore, as the new materials and emerging technologies gathering and supporting effect of nano industry, links be- with great market potential and development prospect, nano- tween the two must be well managed. With platform of the in- materials and nanotechnologies have been universally con- cubator as the core, TusPark has proposed and implemented a cerned by all the countries in the world. In order to improve mechanism to integrate politics, industry, academy, research, the country’s competitiveness and occupy the strategic high- finance, intermediary, media and many other innovation re- land of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies, the government sources, innovate and incubate nano technology achievements in recent years has formulated relevant development strate- and realize the mechanism of mass industrialization. gies and plans and invested heavily in the research and devel- During the Process, incubation platform of the TusPark is the opment of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies, focusing on core drive. Under the support and instruction of Beijing Munic- promoting the industrialization of nanomaterials. Generally ipal Science and Technology Commission, the incubator of Tus- speaking, technological achievements are being transformed Park carries out project research and constructs new professional toward specialization, and they can be congregated to realize nano incubator on basis of Tsinghua University, Chinese Acad- industrial scale and reduce transformation cost to a certain emy of Sciences and other research resources as an advantage extent. Meanwhile, during the construction and operation and in consideration of its own actual conditions for entrepre- process of technological achievement transformation bases, neurship and incubation as well as successful experience of pro- there should be an industrial circle to guide and lead the R&D fessional nano incubation platform both at home and abroad. institutions to improve R&D efficiency and achievement trans- formation efficiency. 2.2 Beijing Nano Zooming Project 2. OVERVIEW Nanotechnology industry, as an emerging industry with platform support, is attracting more and more attention of 2.1 Rapid Development of Global Nanotechnology Industry governments and enterprises. Along with the implementation The development of nanotechnology will bring a huge im- of the 12th Five-Year Plan of China, nanotechnology industry is always treated as a top priority no matter in the Nanotech- *Correspondence to : Herbert Chen nology Research - 12th Five-Year Special Planning of National Vice President, Tuspark (Tsinghua University Science Park), China E-mail : [email protected] Major Scientific Research Plan issued by the Ministry of Sci- World Technopolis Review ence and Technology, the Suggestions on Accelerating the Copyright©World Technopolis Association Development of Strategic Emerging Industries in Beijing is- This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attri- bution Non-Commercial License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits sued by Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited or the relevant-industry supporting and guiding policies of 2015 Copyright©World Technopolis Association 247 Best Practice for STP WTR 2015;4:247-258 http://dx.doi.org/10.7165/wtr2015.4.4.247 Zhongguancun National Innovation Demonstration Zone. incubator industry entering rapid development. In December “Beijing Nano Zooming Project” was launched recently to 2012, the State Council issued the 12th Five-Year Develop- carry out researches on key nano-industrialization technolo- ment Plan for the Service Sector and proposed the ideas of gies, investigate for the batch transformation mechanism, con- vigorously developing science and technology service indus- struct Nano incubators and common open platforms, and try, actively developing innovation services, fostering entre- perfect the Nano industrial layout. By 2015, the technologies, preneurial service format, energetically promoting “incubator human resources, and industries in the field of Nano are ex- + venture investment”, actively developing science & technol- pected to have developed in a congregation manner, with one ogy financial services, encouraging innovation in science & national demonstration base established for the batch trans- technology financial business, establishing science & technol- formation of nano-technological achievements to realize an- ogy financial integrated platform, and providing differentiated nual output value of more than RMB 20 billion in the nano financial services to enterprises. It is required by the Plan to industry, striving to become a world-class nanotechnology in- foster a number of technology service enterprises with strong novation center and a high-end cluster area leading nanotech- innovation capacity, high service level, and great leading influ- nology industry. ence in the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, in order to form a During the construction of nanotechnology industry, a nan- series of technology service industrial bases and clustering ar- otechnology industrial park was tentatively constructed in eas, which have distinctive characteristics and outstanding 2012 at Huairou Yanqi Economic and Technological Develop- advantages. This brings strategic opportunities, as well as ment Zone. Meanwhile, 34 national research institutions, ac- higher requirements, to the incubator industry. counting for 1/3 of nano-science and technology resources of China, are gathered in Beijing, including the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Tsinghua University, Insti- tute of Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the 3. STRATEGIC UPGRADING OF TUSPARK BUSI- Central Iron & Steel Research Institute. They undertake nearly NESS INCUBATOR MODEL half of national projects every year and their published papers and applied patents account for nearly half of that in China. In 3.1 Successful TusPark Incubation Model 2013, Beijing Huairou Yanqi Industrial Park was approved as a national nano industrial park. TusPark Business Incubator is the soul of TusPark, serving as an innovation source of the whole Park, 2.3 Incubator--An Effective Carrier for Innovation and and ranked first among the three functions, i.e., entre- Entrepreneurship Services preneurial business incubator, technological achieve- The incubator, fully named as Business Incubator, was ment transformation, and innovative talent training. called as Entrepreneurship Center when introduced into —— Mei Meng China. It is a technological innovation service carrier, which Director, TusPark Development Center aims to promote technological achievement transformation and develop high-tech enterprises and entrepreneurs. It origi- TusPark Business Incubator was founded in 1999 and incor- nated in the middle 1950s and has developed for more than 50 porated in 2001, taking “incubator + seed investment” as the years. The world’s first business incubator was born in 1959 in development model and specialized incubator as the develop- upstate New York. Its founder Joseph Mancuso acquired a 22- ment target. The Incubator is listed among the national incuba- acre abandoned factory, divided it into small blocks, and tors recognized by the Torch Center, the first batch of pilot rented to different enterprises, finally took advantages of fam- agencies of Beijing Science & Technology Platform, the first ily influence and business channels to help new enterprises batch of partners of Haidian District enterprise service system, survive and develop and attract more venture enterprises Beijing small entrepreneurial bases, and Beijing strategic through visits, face-to-face business talks, customized services emerging industries incubators. In the past 14 years, TusPark and provision of labors. Business Incubator has grown together with the enterprises in Wuhan East-Lake Hi-Tech Innovation Center, the first busi- the park by integrating innovation resources and establishing ness incubator, was founded in June 1987, marking China’s entrepreneurship platform, incubated more than 1,000 enter- 248 2015 Copyright©World Technopolis Association Herbert Chen and Quanhong Shen, WTR4(4):247 prises, trained a large number of outstanding companies, in- industry-industry polymerization, industry-intermediary po- cluding 36 Diamond companies, 9 “Golden Seed Project” lymerization and government-industry polymerization to cre- enterprises, 64 talents under the “1000-Talent Plan”, “Overseas ate an entrepreneurial environment, which is fully integrated Talent Pooling Program” and “High-end Leading Talent Pooling with innovation resources including government, industry, Project”, and helped 9 companies successfully go listed. university, research, finance, intermediaries, trade and media. “Focalization” means to put technologies, talents, capital, mar- “4-Focalization” Model ket and other resources into superior industries and enter- Relying on TusPark