Is your company a mature Scale-up or SME with a cutting edge or innovative product/service in the medtech, biotech or digital health sectors?

What will you get? We’ll provide you insider knowledge and support for a soft-landing in the 2ND LARGEST AND FASTEST GROWING E-HEALTH ECOSYSTEM in the world

EXPLORE market opportunities

• Expand in the No1. Hi-tech reform city
  (Singapore modell), innovative Shenzhen region acting as acceleration base camp
• Mega City: 50 million+
  (incl. Hong Kong as premium international finance centre)
  young and ambitious population (average age 28)

PARTNERING UP and technology sourcing, manufacturing cooperation, access to distribution networks, government institutions, reliability & quality assurance

• Strong hi-tech network in China access to other regions
• Hosts over 270 of World’s Global 500 enterprises
• Leader in the medical devices sector + gene sequencing industry
• (BGI- No1. genomics organisation)

ACCESS TO ADDITIONAL CAPITAL to fuel China expansion with Chinese investors OR co-investors to strengthen existing EU investments so you can expand internationally with a complementary programme addressing Shenzhen in China (and Hong Kong) regions.

• 1/3 of all Chinese VC firms; strong exit environment
• 100x increase: China’s SME Board (similar role to Nasdaq)
• R&D&I represented 4.05% of GDP (2015); 13,300 PCT international patents filed in 2015, 46.9% of the total number filed across all of China (!) – strong IPR culture;
• Highest GDP per capita in China, tear one location

Timeline

• until 15 May: Open Call
• 15 May: Deadline of applications
• 15-25 May: Selection of 20-25 companies for the Bootcamp
• July 9-10th: Bootcamp in Gröningen
• 3 September: Deadline of new applications
• 7 September: Webinar
• 11-16 November: Outbound mission to Shenzhen (& Hong Kong)

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE GO2CHINA PROGRAMME

PHASE 1
2-3 DAYS TRAINING IN BOOTCAMP IN GRÖNINGEN AND ½ DAY WEBINAR

• Preparing EU companies in the Bootcamp by providing them training in pitching and competitiveness in the Chinese market with insider knowledge
• How Chinese partners prefer to conduct business with foreign companies, Chinese code of conduct and customs
• What are the success factors for entering China? Political, business and cultural differences
• Regulatory and legal environment, incl. IP protection
• Where are the opportunities? How to access them?
• Dos and don’ts, best practices, introduce and prepare the participating companies for the Chinese market entry
• Workshops, seminars, everyday pitches

PHASE 2.
SOFT LANDING PROGRAMME, MISSION TO CHINA:

• Soft landing program to facilitate market entry via high level of local embeddedness
• Local presence: 350 m2 office space (managed by E-Group) located in the best district, co‑located with a VC cluster, Basis for Incubator, co-financing of a future GoChina project
• Initial market due diligence, Technology validation, Introduction to local Researchers, industry, regulator, vendors, distribution companies
• Access to VCs and key decision makers “within the circle”
• Go-to-market strategy focusing on efficiency and safety (legal aid incl. IPR protection)
• Unparalleled commitment to protecting and safeguarding new partnerships & our Go2China endeavor
• Top level Shenzhen Government exposure
• 5th China eHealth Expo
  http://www.chtf.com/english/Exhibition/CHTFELEXCON1/
  http://www.ehshow.com/e_zhanhuixinxi.html
  https://10times.com/china-high-tech
  
  

SHENZHEN’S ECOSYSTEM WHO ARE SUPPORTING OUR EIT HEALTH GO2CHINA PROGRAMME

• Shenzhen’s Municipal Government: one of China’s most efficient governments. To further its goals of becoming more marketized, improving its law-based governance, and becoming more international, the city has exerted great efforts to promote numerous reforms, simplify and improve administrative procedures, and decentralize government.
• Shenzhen Capital Group: China’s biggest venture capital company. SCGC has registered capital asset under management of 269.19 billion RMB. (45 billion USD)
• Invest Shenzhen: Invest Shenzhen’s tasks are to promote and consolidate Shenzhen’s investment environment and business advantages, and the agency is committed to bringing in investment projects and teams of talented professionals.
• Shenzhen High-Tech Industrial Park: One of the five state-level high-tech parks particularly supported by the Chinese government.
• Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) comprise five institutes and numerous other labs and facilities. SIAT was jointly established by CAS, the Shenzhen municipal government and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. SIAT aims to enhance the innovative capacity of the equipment manufacturing and service industries in the Guangdong-Hong Kong region, promote the development of emerging industries possessing their own proprietary intellectual property, and become a world-class industrial research institute.
• Shenzhen Information Industry Association
• Shenzhen Information Engineering Association
• Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data (SRIBD)
• Shenzhen Medical Science Information Center
• Shenzhen University (SZU)
• Shenzhen “virtual” University Park: SZVUP “University of Universities”: Consisting of 57(!) domestic and foreign universities (including HK and Taiwan), a physical campus and platform to support the cultivation of high-caliber personnel, platform for incubation of university projects, and transformation of research achievements, as well as platform of the National S&T Park of Universities. The Key laboratory platform of Shenzhen Virtual University Park is open and shared technical service platform consisting of 78 state-level laboratories (Engineering Centers) and ten laboratories of HK Productivity Council as well.
• Shezhen’s Hospital network