On June 25th, the "EuroVenture China" Shanghai Minhang European Roadshow was officially held in Minhang District, Shanghai. The event was directed by the Science and Technology Commission of Minhang District, Shanghai, Shanghai Venture Capital Association, and co-organized by National Technology Transfer Eastern Center, Shanghai Bay Valley Technology Development Co. Representatives from upstream and downstream industrial parks of various industries participated.

Dr. Tianlun Li, President of the French organizer of "Eurotronics ChinaDemoDay", gave a brief introduction of Eurotronics France in his speech. Founded in 2015, Eurotronics is the first to create an integrated ecosystem of project discovery, screening, promotion, incubation and financing for Chinese and French entrepreneurs. Eurotronics has self-managed or cooperative venture spaces in France and China, and provides support for French and Chinese entrepreneurs, helping Chinese innovative companies to expand their European business and French innovative companies to enter China. Otronic is the only Chinese partner of Station F, the largest French startup incubation platform, and the authorized organization of the China Pavilion of Viva Technology, Europe's largest technology exhibition in 2019. during the official visit of French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe to China in 2018, Otronic, as a member of the delegation, accompanied the whole visit. Eurotronics China Demo Day is an important part of Eurotronics' ecosystem, aiming to promote European projects that are willing to come to China to learn about China and connect with domestic organizations in the form of roadshows to enter the Chinese market.

Fang Tianye, vice president of National Technology Transfer Eastern Center, said in his speech, "Based in Shanghai and facing the world, National Technology Transfer Eastern Center is committed to providing technology transactions, technology finance, industry incubation chain services, and to building a fourth-party platform of platformization, internationalization, marketization, capitalization and specialization to build an innovation ecology for the transformation of scientific and technological fruits. Currently, 15 domestic and 10 overseas branch centers have been established. He mentioned that the board is an open and inclusive securities market. Most of the domestic and foreign enterprises on the roadshow came from the fields of electronic information, intelligent manufacturing, biotechnology, new energy and new materials, etc. They have core technologies and scientific and technological talents, which perfectly fit the orientation of the board. The Eastern National Technology Transfer Center will provide enterprises with one-stop professional consulting services and support from technology transfer, industry-financing combination to capital market planning with its unique resources and capabilities.

Shen Yiyi, head of Purple Bamboo Venture Investment Co. Ltd. said in his speech that Minhang District's science and technology creation work has made initial achievements in recent years in its business operations, and Minhang District has been approved as a national model zone for the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Overseas work has always been the focus of Zizhu Hi-Tech Zone's science and technology creation work, to build more opportunities and conditions for overseas cooperation in science and technology projects, to build an international innovation ecosystem, to create an international creative space, and to realize the connection between investment institutions and enterprises and the intercommunication between capital and business by organizing more and more international events like today.

The event invited Zhang Zhigang, CEO of Shanghai Zero Bay Venture Capital, Mei Chenfei, partner of Small Village Capital and co-founder and CEO of STORIES Incubator, Ruan Wenjun, managing director of Shanghai Guo Zhi Investment Management Co. and Yang Haizhong, deputy general manager of Shanghai Zizhu Seedling Equity Investment Fund Co. as critique experts. In the French roadshow, nine French technology companies were introduced to the grounding of artificial intelligence, big data, intelligent elderly care, automotive manufacturing, biometrics and other technologies in medical, elderly care, sports, marketing and other application scenarios. It is reported that all the companies have achieved sales in the European market, and some of them have generated more than a million euros in revenue.

Among them, ST37, the French and Spanish sports technology company, which provides arbitration and training solutions for sports through artificial intelligence video capture technology, won the 2019 Viva Tech French Digital Science and Technology Gold Company, has begun negotiations with the Paris Olympic Committee to discuss the content of the partnership, determined to provide AI arbitration solutions for the 37 sports intelligent in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games .

Fingertips is a French medical technology start-up, whose main product is smart cushions, which can be controlled through flexible and touchable panels and can be customized to meet the needs of different groups of people for smart living.

Global ID, in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, has developed the world's first 3D finger vein biometric technology, which is far safer than existing fingerprint and iris recognition technologies.

Facil'iti is committed to providing web accessibility services to visually impaired web users by personalizing web pages to their needs and transforming them into accessible web pages.

Datakalab, the first neuromarketing French lab to measure consumer sentiment through neuroscience tools, has developed a new tool for measuring mood and behavior using IBM Tealeaf.

Air Serenity, a technology company specializing in air purification, has developed a patented technology that effectively captures pollutants, filters the air in several stages, and adjusts its operation based on air quality.

These advanced technologies were widely welcomed by the participants, who exchanged their views on R&D, application and market development with the companies on the roadshow. The French companies participating in the roadshow were also keen to cooperate with the Chinese companies in order to commercialize their technologies and products in China, and both sides shared and interacted with each other comprehensively.

After the activity, the roadshow enterprises and the guests established a network communication platform, and conducted more in-depth one-on-one communication on the introduction, landing and operation of the project, laying a good foundation for the follow-up cooperation between the two sides, hoping that these excellent French science and technology projects can take root in Minhang District as soon as possible.

On the day of the event, representatives from the roadshow visited the Zero Bay National Dual Innovation Demonstration Base and the Zizhu National Hi-tech Zone Exhibition Center. With the tenet of "improving the entrepreneurial environment to promote mass entrepreneurship; optimizing the innovation environment to promote innovation for all", Zero Bay gives full play to the advantages of gathering intelligence, technology, talents, information, platforms, resources and capital, and provides entrepreneurs with an ecological park suitable for start-ups, as well as corresponding business accelerators and relay parks. The relevant person in charge of the base introduced the development history of Zero Bay and the characteristic resident enterprises to the enterprise representatives, and showed the service content, characteristics and process of the Zero Bay service station. At the NKCIT training base, the enterprise representatives experienced first-hand the research and development achievements such as the Pandora's Eye of Reading Face Technology, the VR device of HTC VIVE, and the ZSPACE virtual reality all-in-one machine.

Zizhu Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone (ZHTID) takes six major industries, including integrated circuits and software, new energy, aviation, digital content, new materials and life sciences, as its leading industries, and mainly makes use of the scientific research achievements of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, East China Normal University and other research institutions in the zone to establish a perfect incubation system and hardware facilities to support the industrialization of scientific research achievements. The relevant person in charge of the Park accompanied the enterprise representatives to visit the exhibition area of intelligent manufacturing, life sciences, new energy and new materials, and introduced the development process of innovation and entrepreneurship in the Hi-tech Zone and the future outlook of "Give me 20 years, give you a city of science and technology".

Since May, the National Center for Technology Transfer East (NCTE) organized an exhibition at Viva Tech, Europe's top technology startup summit, and successfully hosted the first booth supported by the Chinese government, the Shanghai Pavilion, many European technology companies have expressed their willingness to connect with Chinese companies and carriers. The European roadshow, as a follow-up activity of Viva Tech Shanghai Pavilion, promoted European innovative enterprises to connect with relevant parks and enterprises in Minhang District to promote science and technology exchange and cooperation between the two sides. The East China National Technology Transfer Center (ECTTC), in consultation with Eurochuang Hui and other organizers, organized this event in the hope that through government-enterprise exchanges, enterprise roadshows and other ways, and from the perspective of "technology exchange, investment and development, cooperation and win-win", European enterprises will have a better understanding of Shanghai, land in Shanghai, find suitable partners and help Shanghai. The introduction of cutting-edge European technology promotes the government to attract investment, enhance innovation vitality, and help the development of Shanghai's science and technology.