Yangpu Innovation Centre for Intelligent Products (in short, Yangpu Innovation Centre) provides SME incubation services of product trial production, technology development and achievement transfer. With construction of “4 in 1” applied innovation system of “R&D + trial production + industry + capital”, it helps small and micro startups to pass through their initial entrepreneurship stage with cultivation of their self-innovation capacity. By efficiently playing the role of the “third baton” of the innovation relay, the centre continuously incubates innovative small enterprises with high potential of development and constructs the “Public Space for Group Innovation” at SITI.

Building of Science and Technology Innovation Route and Entrepreneurship Ecology
Yangpu Innovation Center extracted from its practices of services the innovation service model “1+3”, namely 1 core of trial production with 3 methods of technology consulting, environment support and resource deployment. Relying on the technology and talent resources of SITI, the centre constructs an ecosystem with platform cultivation, angel fund deployment and docking with VC.

High-end Talents and Application Innovation Model
A “4 in 1” application innovation system of “R&D + trial production + industry + capital” has been constructed to attract high-level talents including entrepreneurs from Harvard University, Stanford University, MIT, Imperial College London, Yale University, University of Toronto, etc.

Cases of Application
The “Public Space for Group Innovation” at SITI obtained high-tech achievements together with enterprises via synergy development, joint problem-shooting projects, IP sharing, etc. and accomplished 657 technology transfers among which such technologies as “No-glasses 3D Production and Display”, “3D Medical Imaging for Diagnosis”, and “Vertical Medical Search Engine on Intenet” filled in the blanks of the relevant fields and basically accomplished industrialization.
The “Public Space for Group Innovation” at SITI collaborated with some top-class entrepreneurship service institutions including Sinovation Ventures (founded by Li Kaifu), Yangpu Ventures, Fudan Software Park, and Shanghai Technology Entrepreneurship Foundation for Graduates (EFG), and has provided 61420 times of technical services and cultivated an innovation talent database of nearly 8670 persons. It also provided such technical services as technology R&D, think-tank consulting, contracted project management, sub-contracted projects for Shanghai Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, SAST, Shanghai Industrial Association for Quality Tracking and Anti-counterfeit, Yangpu District Government, Yangpu District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, etc.