Peking University Innovation Forum Sails Out
2009/05/27
On the afternoon of May 23, co-hosted by the Innovation Education and Research Institute and the College of Engineering of Peking University, and Science and Technology Daily under the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Peking University Innovation Forum was grandly held in Peking University, along with the opening of China Youth Innovation Contest.
Experts and entrepreneurs from home and abroad attended the forum and held discussions on the theme of the forum: Global Innovation and Talent Cultivation.
Prof. Yu Hongjun, Assistant President of Peking University and President of China's Center for Strategy Studies of Peking University, Prof. Yannis C. Yortsos, Dean of Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California, and other guests made excellent speeches at the forum.
Principals from Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, State Intellectual Property Office, MOST and Central Communist Youth League, and more than 30 enterprisers from Google, Oracle, CA, Aviation Industry Corporation of China, and other firms took part in the forum as well.
Prof. Yannis C. Yortsos delivered a keynote speech on Global Innovation and Development of Higher Education. He pointed out, in a knowledge-based society, innovation is the main driving force of economic development.
Taking USC Viterbi School of Engineering as an example, he introduced experiences of institutions of higher learning of the United States in education and R&D resources integration. First, how to improve the capacity of sustainable development of higher education innovation; second, how to raise the efficiency of institutions of higher learning in using innovative resources.
After heated discussions, scholars thought that in order to breakthrough the current bottleneck of restricting China's future economic, educational cultural development, China is in need of institutional, cultural and technological innovation to foster more innovative talents and cultivate the innovation practice capacity of China's young people.
Source: IPR in China
