Beijing Institute of Collaborative Innovation
(BICI) is an international, non-governmental, non-profit innovation platform
established in 2014. With offices in Beijing, Silicon Valley,
London, and Hong Kong, BICI is committed to building a global collaborative
innovation system, transferring university fundamental scientific and
technological achievements into real productive forces, and serving the
sustainable development of mankind.
Focusing on the six key areas of medical devices, intelligent
manufacturing, optoelectronics, materials, biomedicine, and environmental engineering,
BICI has established collaborative laboratories and supported research groups
with a number of prestigious universities at home and abroad to study
cutting-edge technologies and lead future technological advances. At the same
time, BICI has built internal laboratories and dedicated engineering and
technical teams to jointly develop engineering technologies with
universities to advance today’s industrial development.
Targeting major innovation and entrepreneurship regions worldwide,
BICI propels technology commercialization and transforms the potential of
technology into economic dynamism through technology-based JV creation and
intellectual property assignment or licensing.
Jointly with universities at home and abroad, BICI adopts the
"knowing and doing" model to train innovative and entrepreneurial
graduate students. Students study academic courses at university, take
innovation and entrepreneurship courses at BICI, and carry out practical training
based on BICI’s real-world projects together with peers across universities and
disciplines. Under this model, a unique effect has been created by
cultivating talents in innovation and creating further innovation in talent
cultivation.
BICI established an Intellectual Property Fund to support
scientific research, and a Transformation Fund to support
commercialization, forming a capital chain covering the entire innovation
lifecycle.
At present, BICI has established strong collaborative
relationships with more than ten prestigious Chinese universities and around
ten top international universities, with the in-depth involvement of a
large number of world-class professors. Each year, approximately 50
world-class scientific research projects are launched, 30 technologies
commercialized, 25 start-up companies formed, and close to 200
entrepreneurial students trained.
After several years’ development, BICI has become a communal
innovation and entrepreneurial base for a number of world-renowned
universities, an explorer of university reform in a new era, and a leader in
innovation development.