lead the future with science and innovation! science and innovation stars shine in the 2024 yangtze river delta science and technology innovation competition finals
2024-09-22
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after four months of fierce competition, the 2024 season finals of the yangtze river delta jujin science and technology innovation competition were held yesterday at the zhengli campus of the school of management of fudan university. nine growth group teams and five angel group teams stood out from 235 teams and stepped onto the peak showdown stage. in the end, the "internationally leading base editing technology" won the jujin award, and the "storage and computing integrated ai computing acceleration" won the first prize in the angel group.
professor lu xiongwen, dean of the school of management at fudan university, said in his opening speech that the significance of the yangtze river delta science and technology innovation competition is not only to compete for the championship and runner-up, but most importantly to strengthen our confidence and use science and technology innovation to lead the future of the times. "without science and technology innovation, there is no future." science and technology innovation is our future, and there is no other choice for the future. we must use the power of the school, the power of the profession, and the power of resources to empower the cause of science and technology innovation, promote china to keep up with the pace of the world's scientific and technological revolution, and even lead the direction of the world's scientific and technological revolution.
at the final, dean lu xiongwen, chairman of shanghai daohe long-term investment management co., ltd. yang dehong, chief researcher of fudan science and technology innovation management research center and head of shanghai yangtze river delta science and technology innovation service center que bo, general manager of hengrui medicine dai hongbin, chairman of detong capital shao jun, president of shanghai science and technology innovation fund yang bin, sequoia china investment partner yang zhaoguo, lightspeed photosynthesis partner zhu jia, co-founder of iflytek and chairman of future intelligence hu yu, and professor qian shizheng of fudan university school of management formed a super jury, which not only performed fair and strict judging for the peak showdown, but also provided professional development suggestions to each contestant.
"how do you solve the intellectual property problem?" "have the innovation risks been resolved?" "is your business model about selling technology or products?" "can you withstand the challenge of 'bargain prices'?" project representatives from the growth group took turns to give 8-minute speeches on stage, followed by a 12-minute question-and-answer session.
"our company is committed to developing new gene editing technologies and using them to delete diseases." xu tianhong is the representative of the "internationally leading base editing technology" project. facing the judges' sharp questions, he confidently answered, "on the one hand, we have to solve the problem of off-target gene editing, and on the other hand, we have to solve the problem of the 'bottleneck' of the underlying patented technology. we are determined to establish our own core technological barriers, and then develop products to avoid internal competition."
"what if your core product fails in the market?" angel group contestants need to answer questions from the judges after completing a 5-minute speech. faced with the challenge of "quick questions and quick answers", the contestants not only responded calmly, but also came up with many "golden sentences".
when asked how to face failure and reflect on it, sun tang, a representative of the "ai computing acceleration system with storage and computing" project, said, "review and learn from failures, and try again. failure is the mother of success. as long as it doesn't kill us, it will definitely make us stronger."
"when a competitor launches a very successful product, but your r&d has not yet reached the same level, will you choose innovation or imitation?" when faced with the choice between innovation and imitation, yang qisheng, a representative of the "photonic core power-optical computing chip" project, replied: "there are many roads to rome. we will forge our own path of scientific research and commercialization."
as the winner of the "jujing award", xu tianhong said after the competition that the competition lasted for half a year, and he maintained continuous interaction with fudan school of management throughout the competition, and truly benefited from the competition's purpose of "educating people through competition". "not only did we come to participate in the competition, the school also held training, lectures, open classes and other activities, which helped us improve a lot. because the school of management places special emphasis on the management of entrepreneurial enterprises, which is very different from the management of mature large enterprises, so carrying out targeted entrepreneurial management education is very helpful to us."
since the yangtze river delta jujin science and technology innovation competition was launched in november 2022, it has lasted for 3 years, held 2 seasons, and has gone through 3 provinces and 1 city in jiangsu, zhejiang, shanghai, anhui, with a total of 25 games. the 2024 season continued to upgrade on the basis of the original 10 million reward pool, added angel group selection and awards, and invested more event ecological resources.
this year's competition further selected the best from the best. after 15 online and offline competitions, 235 preliminary finalists were strictly reviewed by more than 100 professional judges after 1,206 project reviews. finally, 30 projects entered the finals and 14 projects qualified for the ultimate showdown.
professor qian shizheng of the school of management at fudan university said in his summary, "only by understanding the times can you have the future. in this era, it is not your competitors that eliminate you, but your failure to keep up with the times. among the 14 projects participating in the finals, new generation information technology accounted for 40% and the biological track accounted for 45%. it can be seen that we are using silicon-based life to create silicon-based intelligence, thereby changing our world. biotechnology and artificial intelligence are being 'grafted', and what appeared on the stage today is precisely a projection of the real world."
author: tang weijie
text: tang weijie photos: provided by the interviewee editor: shang hui editor-in-chief: rong bing
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