From March 30th, INSME organized a mission to “the Silicon Valley of the East”, a city that in 1980 counted just 300,000 inhabitants and today is home to 22 million. The transformation is not merely demographic. Shenzhen is, as INSME’s President Sergio Arzeni put it, “the only, unrepeatable technological ecosystem” when it comes to batteries and physical artificial intelligence.
The delegation, which was coordinated by PLD, INSME’s Chinese member, visited some of the most consequential companies and institutions in global tech: BYD, Huawei, UBTECH Robotics, HONOR, LKK Design Group, Dobot Robotics, and the Shenzhen Yujiang Technology Co. The goal was to give to selected INSME members a first-hand understanding of Shenzhen’s innovation ecosystem, and lay the groundwork for concrete cooperation opportunities.
The mission returned results that go well beyond the programme itself. Across the four days, INSME built meaningful relationships with key institutions and organisations in Shenzhen’s innovation ecosystem, conversations that are already translating into concrete next steps, including potential new forms of collaboration and institutional engagement that the network looks forward to sharing in due course. This mission was, for the INSME delegation, a personal experience of how the global innovation map is shifting. For SMEs willing to engage, the door is now open.
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