[[Category=== '''1.Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship:Universities]]''' === <span style="font-size:larger;">Nankai University offers various kinds of chances to intrigue students’ passion for innovation, to horn their skills for Entrepreneurship and also give them opportunities to check whether their ideas work or not.</span> <span style="font-size:larger;">There are many ways to help students discover how important innovation is. For example, many courses which impart I&E’s importance are offered every semester, such as Methodology of scientific research, Program Management and Graduation Design. There are also events like TEDx , KAB Celebrity Talks and Mr.Chuange’s Entrepreneurship Course. You can also find kinds of workshops at different corners of the campus. And if students want to know more about the I&E activities, they have a lot of resources to refer to, such as newspaper, journals, websites and Wechat Subscriptions held by different organazations.</span> <span style="font-size:larger;">NKU also offers kinds of resources which could equip students with better skills for I&E. If you are a Business School undergraduate, you can take Innovation Management or Entrepreneurship Thinking and Action , to have an academic view of what I&E requires. If you are a graduate of Business School, the seminar which focuses on Entrepreneurship Management will be your dish. And if you are in other shools, courses like Design Thinking for Innovation and Innovative Research and Training are just great to arrange you ready for future I&E acitivities. When you are outside classroom, social clubs like KAB, Enactus , AoST(Association of Science and Technology) are awesome places to meet your I&E curiosity. If you are qualified, you can also try some short programs that help you know more about I&E, such as Yunneng Business School and I&E training Camp. </span><div><span style="font-size:larger;">And when you have a brilliant idea and you want to check it, NKU also has a lot of opportunities. You can take kinds of experiential course ,trying to learn by doing. Application of modern biotechnology, Application of new energy materials science and Introduction and application of 3D print are all great choices. Places like Starry Sky I&E Space also enable students to do some prototyping or engineering work. Some school also has internship job opportunity which will help students understand how business world runs by being a part of it. And if you are confident enough for your I&E skills, there are also competitions held by university or the government ,such as Dream+ , the Challenge Cup and National University Student Innovation Program which will give you a wonderful stage to show your ideas.</span></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''2.Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: '''</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"</span><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''3.Actively supporting the university technology transfer function:'''</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"</span><div><span style="font-size:larger;">Nankai University currently has a Technology Transfer Office (TTO) which is part of the Office for Research. The main role of TTO is managing university intellectual property (IP) through filing patents and licensing technology. The TTO also coordinates research agreements with industry and commercializing university inventions. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;"><br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">With the support of Tianjin Science and Technology Commission, Nankai University formally approved the establishment of university-level achievement transformation and promotion agencies. TTO is considered as an open platform for scientific and technological achievements, human resource, and information exchange. Besides, TTO serves not only as a science and technology service platform for entrepreneurs and students in Nankai University, but also as a technology venture investment platform of local government. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;"><br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">The Technology Transfer Office is divided into general office, training office, public relations department, and technical service department, with three branch offices located in Binhai New District, Nankai District, and Jinnan District. TTO encourages innovation and entrepreneurship in Nankai University and provides various lectures and technological training.</span></div><div><br/></div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''4.Facilitating university-industry collaboration:'''</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"</span><div><span style="font-size:larger;">Nankai University has close Collaboration with many industrial companies, including a various kind of companies in many industries For example, Nankai has close connection with Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Big Data Industrial Collaborative Cooperation Platform, and also chinses institute of new generation artificial intelligence development strategies is base on Tianjin Nankai university,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;"><br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;"><br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Big Data Industrial Collaborative Cooperation Platform is sponsored by Beijing Institute of Big Data Research. And Nankai university will play a role of promote the development of the platform with several other universities from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, Big Data Industry Alliance, Software and Information Service Industry Association, and delegations of economic foundations and enterprises. This activity wants to accelerate the cooperation between industries, universities, and research centers, share and supervise collaborative and innovative resources, and experiment on the big data industry of the three cities, which emphasizes the promotion of the three cities’ collaborative development in the field of big data, helping Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region to become a national big data industry innovation center and a developed area for global big data industry.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;"><br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">In addition to Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Big Data Industrial Collaborative Cooperation Platform, Nankai University signs signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Shenzhen HEC Industry Development Company. The HEC Research Institute of Nankai University will be established to promote the innovative cooperation of Government, industry, university and research institutes and drum up the support of Shenzhen Government at all levels. The industrial transformation will be achieved through pharmaceutical research, intelligent medical devices, health care products, cosmetics, new pesticides, seeds, and innovative materials. Combining the advantages of Nankai University’s Medicine, Finance, Management and Tourism and the needs of HEC’s industrial chain, a wide range of exchanges and cooperation will be explored.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;"><br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">Last but not the least, Nankai is helping build national high end artificial intelligence think tank .As the core driving force of the new round of industrial change, artificial intelligence will become a new engine of economic development and a new focus of international competition. The development of AI should lay stress on the direction of sustainable development, eliminate social differences, improve the quality of education through the whole, timely reform the educational mode, and train more qualified professionals that meet the requirements of the times. Nankai University will be adhering to the "For Public, For ability", firmly grasp the opportunity of construction of a new generation of artificial intelligence Chinese development strategy research institute, make full use of all the advantages of resources, to not forget the real intention, spirit of reform and innovation to realize the construction goal of the top universities in the world ahead.</span></div><div><br/></div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''5.Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts:'''</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;"</span><div><span style="font-size:larger;">In NKU’s plan for 2020 -2050, the administration of the university said that NKU will actively serve Tianjin’s development as before. And we have to say these is not empty words for that Nankai University has made great contribution to Tianjin’s regional and local economic development. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;"></span><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">NKU’s professor has done a lot of researches which focused on solving problems that Tianjin faces. Let us take this for an instance, in recent years Beijing ‘s development is based at the cost of Tianjin and Hebei’s lost. To find out solutions for this question, NKU has set up a Research Institute of coordination development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei which acted like a think tank both for the central and Tianjin government. Also, in the field of solving the air pollution of northern China, designing sea water desalination system of Tianjin and standing at the cut edge of A.I. research of China, you can also see the contribution that made by NKU’s scholar and professor.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;"></span><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">NKU also has the specific research result transfer office which encourages faculty and students to start their own business based on the research they have conducted. University has raised a fund ready to help the professor if they want to transfer their patent into a real business. Sometimes professors will cooperate with some big companies such as IBM, Baidu and Tencent to solve real world problem. </span></div></div>