Organisers

CIDA-UK

The China Innovation and Development Association in the UK (CIDA-UK) serves as a bridge between the UK and China for exchange of trade, education and culture and as a coordinator for local Chinese organisations. CIDA has fully utilised the potentials of local and overseas Chinese to achieve a series of goals by providing with opportunities for professionals, scholars, executives, businessmen and government officials of the two countries.

Prof. Fujia Yang, Chancellor of Nottingham University, is the honorary Chair of the 2007-2009 committee.

Contact: Ryan ( haynes_nh@hotmail.com ).

Lancaster University

Lancaster University is a campus university dedicated to excellence through teaching and research. It is consistently rated as one of the top UK universities for research and teaching and carries an international reputation for quality within Higher Education. 92% of its research is rated as being of “international quality”.

Lancaster’s role with the China UK Entrepreneurship Challenge is delivered by the Lancaster China Management Centre (http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/research/centres/ChinaCentre/), led by Prof David Brown (d.brown@lancaster.ac.uk). The purpose of the Centre is to develop new programmes of research and teaching at postgraduate and post-experience level appropriate to the mission of Lancaster University Management School and relevant to the needs of Chinese managers and highlights Lancaster’s dedication to Sino-UK collaborations.

UCL

Founded in 1826, University College London (UCL) was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, the first to admit students regardless of race, class, religion or gender, and the first to provide systematic teaching of law, architecture and medicine. UCL is the fourth-ranked university in the 2009 THES-QS World University Rankings. UCL currently has over 12,000 undergraduate and 8,000 postgraduate students.

UCL Advances (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/advances) is UCL’s centre for entrepreneurship and business interaction at UCL. It is led by Timothy Barnes ( t.barnes@ucl.ac.uk) and engagement with the China UK Entrepreneurship Challenge is managed by Tina Liu (qianwen.liu@ucl.ac.uk).

University of York

The University of York was founded in 1963 with 200 students. Since then, it has expanded to 11,000 students and has over 30 academic departments and research centres.
From its inception, the University has concentrated on strong viable departments and teaching and research of the highest quality.

York has always been highly rated for the standards of its teaching, and its outstanding performance in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise is also recognition of the world-leading research activity in York. Twelve departments were ranked in the top ten in the country with almost all departments in the top 20. The university is now ranked in the top 100 in the world.

Participating in the China UK Entrepreneurship Challenge is led by Dr Kiran Fernandes ( kf501@york.ac.uk) of the University’s Management School (http://www.york.ac.uk/management).

Queen's

The university was chartered in 1845, and opened in 1849 as "Queen's College, Belfast", but has roots going back to 1810 and the Belfast Academical Institution. Queen's is a member of the Russell Group of the UK's 20 leading research intensive universities, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, Universities Ireland and Universities UK. Queen’s University Management School offers a range of discipline-based programmes at undergraduate level in core management, economics, finance, accounting, actuarial studies and international business.

TEDA

TEDA stands for Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area which was established by the Tianjin Municipal Government in 1984 as one of the first 14 national development zones after the Reform and Opening-up policy had been carried out nationwide. With over 24 years of hard effort, TEDA has become one of the biggest and most successful economic zones in nowadays China.

Founded in 1996, TEDA International Incubator (TII hereinafter) is the official agency completely financed and administrated by the TEDA government. As a leading player among the high-tech business incubators in Tianjin Binhai New Area, we are committed to provide high quality services to the following clients:

Professionals with expertise who are determined to establish a technology-based business;
Innovative and high-tech enterprises at the start-up or growth stage;
Universities and R&D institutes aiming at transformation of scientific and technological achievements into practical productive forces;
Overseas Chinese students and experts with the passion to start their own business career in China;
Overseas technology enterprises with the intention to engage in business development in China;
Overseas investors who are interested in funding local high-tech businesses.

Chongqing Association for Science and Technology (CQAST)

Chongqing Association for Science and Technology (CQAST) is a non-profit and non-governmental organization of the scientific and technological workers in Chongqing. As a bridge between the scientific and technological workers and the government, it is an important driving force in developing the country’s science and technology.

The major tasks of CQAST are:

to promote the advancement of science and technology by means of scientific and technological exchanges;
to bring forth new ideas for enterprises in building the technological system;
to popularize scientific knowledge among the general public;
to safeguard the legitimate rights of scientific and technological workers;
to organize scientific and technological workers to participate in the political life of the state;
to award scientific and technological workers with outstanding contributions;
to provide policy advice and other services to the government and the society on science- and technology-related issues so as to contribute to economic and social development;
to develop cooperative relations with the international science and technology community;
to conduct continued education through various training programs;
to promote public welfare cause of the society.

Found in Dec. 1959, CQAST is composed of 127 academic and professional societies and associations for science and technology with more than 300,000 members now. Moreover, CQAST has its subordinate chapters in 40 districts and 220 enterprise and institution associations in Chongqing.

Email: cqastid@sina.com