This incubator explores industry incubation empowerment services, focusing on fields such as artificial intelligence
The Qidi Star Incubator was jointly established by Qidi and Xinzhi Digital. Originating from the Tsinghua University Science and Technology Park, the Qidi Incubator has undergone multiple institutional and institutional changes. Today, Qidi Star has established over 190 innovation incubation bases in over 90 cities worldwide. The Qidi Star Incubator is an incubation carrier created by Qidi Star in Pudong, Shanghai, located in the Zhangjiang Science City and Jinqiao areas of Pudong New Area.
Brand output and cross regional distribution are common practices for many incubators to replicate and promote their existing incubation services to other regions based on brand influence after accumulating certain practical experience. Qidi Star is undoubtedly one of the earliest, most widely distributed, strongest service capabilities, and most influential incubator brands among them.
The original intention of its establishment was to fully connect large industrial enterprises such as Xinzhi Group, focus on its upstream and downstream resources in the digital field, fully tap into the innovation needs in industrial scenarios, and empower the incubation enterprises of Enlightenment Star. In the process of development, the Enlightenment Star Incubator has followed this industrial incubation approach, with dedicated personnel delving into industrial scenarios to discover innovative application possibilities, driving cooperation between innovative enterprises and industry leaders, and has deeply promoted more than 20 cases of large-scale integration and cooperation.
Adjusting around the industry trend
With the booming development of innovation and entrepreneurship, the first incubator of Qidi Star has landed in Yangpu District, Shanghai, fully accepting the wisdom and innovation spillovers of universities. With the cooperation with Xinzhi Digital, the Qidi Star Incubator has successively landed and operated in the Jinqiao and Zhangjiang regions.
The Pudong New Area gathers a large amount of industrial resources, making it easy for the Star of Enlightenment Incubator to fully connect domestic and foreign large enterprises, research institutes, and innovative enterprises in its scientific and technological innovation ecosystem. Around the fields of artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, and biomedicine, Qidi Star has carried out strategic cooperation with large enterprises and universities, actively building professional platforms, and carrying out a series of brand activities.
Based on past incubation service experience and the industrial resources and application scenarios of New Intelligence Group, the Inspiration Star Incubator has created an innovative model of "cutting-edge technology empowering traditional industries", focusing on investment, incubation, and project acceleration in the vertical field of AI big data.
Guided by industry demand, the Enlightenment Star Incubator initially fully launched link services, and guided incubators to visit and research large enterprises in the direction of artificial intelligence, holding various acceleration camp activities. In practical docking, incubators have found that it is difficult to quickly break down cooperation barriers between small and large enterprises, whether relying on discussions and communication or purely demand docking.
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Driven by strong external demand and the establishment of technology transfer, members of the incubator team began to explore practical scenarios in the industry in 2019, discovering and exploring collaborative points that integrate big and small.
Deepening the scene to facilitate cooperation
Through years of industry accumulation and resource linkage at the Star of Enlightenment, the industry empowerment team conducted on-site inspections at a bus station in Shanghai, searching for application scenarios where AI can be implemented. After communicating with bus drivers and observing their daily work, the industry empowerment team quickly discovered that the daily handover process of bus drivers can be improved through AI visual recognition, replacing manual operations.
So, the industry empowerment team found incubation company Shanghai Xinwei Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., which was early engaged in visual recognition applications in banking environments. The industry empowerment team and the company jointly planned and launched innovative solutions, which were recognized by the public transportation company. In the following year, the company will focus on concept validation in application scenarios, inspiring the industry empowerment team to fully promote the cooperation between the two parties. Ultimately, this cooperation has become a demonstration case of digital livelihood application scenarios.
On the basis of a good start, the company also designed an anti drowning warning application system for ferries. The system was soon deployed and demonstrated powerful functions, allowing two drowning personnel to quickly escape danger. The continuous expansion of application scenarios quickly helps the company open up the market and develop rapidly.
At the Enlightenment Industry Empowerment Center, the rapid development of Xinwei Intelligence is not an exception. The center holds over 100 TIEC docking meetings every year, focusing on the actual industrial technology needs of nearly 30 Fortune Global 500 multinational enterprises and state-owned enterprises, and has connected nearly 300 technical teams. Behind every matchmaking meeting, there is a deep analysis of industry demand and professional judgment from startups. Behind every matchmaking case, there is a deep participation of the inspiring team in every aspect of technology commercialization.
Wang Wei, Deputy General Manager and General Manager of Qidi Star, stated that industrial incubation is an innovative path that Qidi Star is committed to exploring after the integration of incubation and investment models. The integration of large and small cases requires continuous human investment, and there is still a risk for early entrepreneurial enterprises to bear expenses in advance. However, when these connections become contract orders and new breakthroughs for enterprise growth, the incubator team deeply feels that the value of this service exceeds the past and is worth investing and practicing.
Against the backdrop of vigorously promoting the construction of an open innovation center for large enterprises in Pudong New Area, the Qidi Star Incubator will continue to deepen industrial cooperation with New Intelligence Cognition. Based on the industry leading platform capabilities of New Intelligence Cognition technology innovation and model innovation, combined with the large enterprise linkage capabilities and resources of the Qidi Industry Empowerment Center, it will explore and practice in vertical fields such as urban security, artificial intelligence, and digital upgrading.
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Relying on the internet to reach oneself as an adult
The global network and accumulated incubation experience and resources of Qidi Star provide sufficient support for the localization development of incubators in Shanghai. As a hub city for China's foreign cooperation and opening up, Shanghai has a high degree of internationalization and has become a window for incubators to carry out international incubation cooperation. As a cooperation space for the National Overseas Talent Offshore Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base Free Trade Pilot Zone, Qidi Star continues to promote scientific and technological innovation exchanges and cooperation at home and abroad, attract and support overseas scientific and technological innovation projects to land in China, and assist domestic projects in expanding overseas and exploring international markets.
Wang Wei introduced that the incubator has been helping innovative enterprises at home and abroad to land and explore cooperation through the global network of Enlightenment Star. The global network of Qidi Star not only provides landing space for enterprises, but also fully connects with local governments, policies, and industrial partners, helping domestic and foreign science and technology innovation enterprises achieve their international market expansion goals.
The Qidi Star Venture Capital Fund has completed fundraising in early 2023 and will carry out related investment incubation work in hard technology fields such as integrated circuits, biopharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence, and new materials in the future.
Information: Pudong Science and Technology Promotion Center
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