The world's top venture entrepreneurship festival "Global Entrepreneur Summit And Entrepreneurship Competition" is an important part of Beijing's vigorous recruitment of international talents and promotion of the construction of its role as an international exchange center. The HICOOL 2021 Global Entrepreneur Summit And Entrepreneurship Competition was officially launched on April 16, 2021. In the next 4 months, the competition will go through a series of processes, including primary voting, preliminary round, semi-final and final, in order to select the outstanding projects from excellent entrepreneurs and projects around the world, and hold a grand awards ceremony on the site of the summit.
In order to further achieve the aim of global talent selection, the HICOOL has opened up a new channel for local projects focusing on overseas projects this year. It is expected that thousands of entrepreneurship projects from more than 100 countries and regions will lay out their industries around Beijing's 14th Five-Year Plan. The competition will be carried out for six fields, which are artificial intelligence/financial technology, medicine and health, next-generation information and communication technology, new energy/new materials/energy conservation and environmental protection, high-end equipment and cultural creativity. In the end, a total of 140 projects will receive awards, sharing a total prize of up to 100 million yuan. It is worth mentioning that the coverage of the 2021 policy will be further extended to the winning projects, which also means that a larger number and a wider range of global entrepreneurs can enjoy the HICOOL's exclusive supporting preferential policies.
The summit will be held at the New China International Exhibition Center in Shunyi, Beijing at the end of August. It will highlight HICOOL's "Entrepreneur-centric" concept and pay tribute to outstanding entrepreneurs around the world with the positioning of Beijing's urban science and technology innovation. The summit will set up award ceremonies, theme forums, results demonstrations, new product and technology debuts, docking exchanges, concurrent events and other theme sections. It will fully display the phased achievements of Beijing's construction of an international science and technology innovation center, attract outstanding entrepreneurs from all over the world to settle in Beijing, and continuously inject potential talent and development resources into ecological construction.
It is reported that the exhibition area of the summit will exceed 20,000 square meters, and more than 200 exhibitors are expected to take part. The summit will bring together well-known exhibitors in the industry from China, and even the world's leading enterprise innovation centers, VCs, funds, international technology innovation companies, international exhibition groups, Beijing 16th district technology innovation exhibition group, enterprises in the vertical field of entrepreneurial services, university research institutes, and outstanding entrepreneurial projects. It is expected that more than 30 top global leaders will gather together to exchange innovations and ideas from the perspective of the HICOOL to create the "innovation brain" of the international center of innovative technology.
This year, the HICOOL focuses on creating a sustainable, one-stop service platform, docking the global mainstream technology and innovation incubation acceleration model, and building a "six in one" HICOOL entrepreneurial ecosystem of competitions/summits, butlers, business schools, industrial parks, funds, and online platforms. Projects and talent will be imported from the competition, and accelerated by business schools. Additionally, after the precise services modeled after butlers, entrepreneurial project development clusters at different levels will be formed. The industrial park will maximize the clustering effect and rely on fund investment methods to help entrepreneurial projects realize better capital links and development leaps. The online platform will fully support the entire ecological chain of the entire entrepreneurial life cycle, help all parties to quickly link resources, achieve efficient and accurate docking, and cover the entire life cycle of entrepreneurial projects.
The HICOOL 2020 Global Entrepreneur Summit and Entrepreneurship Competition was held in Beijing last year. Participants were limited to returnees or overseas talent who intend to come to Beijing to start businesses. The total direct bonus of the competition reached 80 million yuan, matched with 1 billion yuan in venture capital, which attracted 2026 high-quality projects from 82 countries to participate.
(Reporter: Sun Qi ru)
