Incubator for start-ups for environmental technologies and services

Start Up Talk Group Photo (from left to right): Postdoc. Ruiqing LU,  Zhonghan YU(member of X-Lab), Mrs. Qiulin LIU(JIEI), Prof. Dr. ZUO, Prof. Dr. Stephan KOESTER, Prof. Dr. Regina NOGUEIRA, Dip.–Ing. Nina MANIG and Dipl.–Ing. Franziska Verworn, on 13th April 2018, at School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

PLUS is a science-based hub for joint start-up activities in the field of environmentl technologies.

Since 2008 Chinese Government has already announced several kinds of initiatives to encourage young talents oversees to come back home and wave their ambitions domestically. For our case, besides the funding ideas and consulting services at the very beginning, investments from both Chinese and German sides are also achievable. To make this happen, PLUS made a profound analyses on the present Chinese market. Nowadays, China is confronted with more and more severe water related environmental issues, yet lacks of relatively more professional technology and consulting services to tackle them. However, the biggest market in the world China has never been short of investors who appreciate creative ideas and brains. They are exactly those we are looking for and we can.

The aim is to transfer the joint research results into practice. Young founders are specifically supported and advised by mentors in technical, legal and organizational questions. First contacts to potential investors, business partners and customers are established.

PLUS也是一个环境科技领域的创业平台

中国政府自2008起就出台了各式文件，以吸引海外留学人员归国，在自己的祖国土地之上大展宏图。对于PLUS这一个平台来说，无论是最开始的创业点子和咨询服务，还是从中方和德方寻求投资，我们都有相应的途径。对此，PLUS对中国目前的市场进行了一番深入的调查。总的来说，中国现今面临着越来越严重的水环境问题，但是又极其缺乏相对更为专业的技术和咨询服务来引导解决这些问题。但是，中国作为世界上最大的一个市场，新颖的点子和有创造力的人才从来都不缺乏伯乐。而这些伯乐，正式我们要去寻找的，也是我们有能力去找到的。

PLUS-UP的目的是将合作研究的成果投入具体的市场应用。年轻的创业者将会得到专业的技术、法律和有关公司结构的指导。此外，本项目已经与相关的投资人、潜在的商业合作伙伴和客户取得了第一步联系。

In April, after the Innovations Workshop with specialists, PLUS Team also had Start-Up talk with Mrs. Qiulin LIU from JIEI and Zhonghan YU from X-Lab.
Mrs. Qiulin Liu, who is not only a member of SoE, but also an environmental activist from the Jiangsu (Yixing) Institute of Environmental Industry (JIEI), shared her experiences of how China industrialize its technology, which is quite representative currently.

Jiangsu (Yixing) Institute of Environmental Industry (JIEI)

 
JIEI locates in Yixing Industrial Park for Environmental Science & Technology, which is one of the first Chinese national hi-tech industrial development zones featured in environmental industry. To promote environmental enterprises in connection with government, industry and research is JIEI’s main goal. Since its foundation was approved by the Jiansu Science and Technology Apartment, it has the best Chinese market requirements guide from the government, and also the best resources to discover the advanced domestic and foreign environmental technologies, and thus transfer them into Chinese market as well as overseas.
As an enterprise incubator, it already cultivated three companies, namely Jiangsu Zoetec Water Redemendation Co., Ltd, Zhongyi Instrument Jiangsu Co., Ltd and Yixing Eco-Sanitary Manufacture Co., Ltd. To motivate the young talents to Start Up, JIEI organizes regularly Environmental Innovation & Entrepreneurship Challenge, in which a good quantity of Start-UP funding will be given to the winner, who owns the most innovative ideas/technologies, which is decided at the end of completion normally by the most professionalized entrepreneurs from the environmental field.
For further information: www.jiei.cn

今年四月， 于项目会议之后，PLUS团队又与来自江苏（宜兴）环保产业技术研究院的刘秋玲女士，和来自清华大学创意创新创业教育平台的余中汉同学进行了创业对话。

江苏（宜兴）环保产业技术研究院（JIEI）

刘秋玲女士不仅是清华大学环境学院的一员，也是一名来自JIEI积极的创业引导者。创业谈话中，她分享了当下中国如何将科技进行工业化应用的过程。
JIEI坐落于中国宜兴环保科技工业园，该工业园区乃属中国第一批以环保为主题的高科技工业发展区域之一。促进以政府、工业和研究为导向的环保创业乃JIEI主要目标之一。自江苏省科技厅批准其成立以来，它始终与政府保持着紧密的联系，以保证正确的市场需求，从而去发现海内外先进的环保技术，并将其转换投入到国内外市场。
作为一个创业孵化器，JIEI目前已经成功创立了三家公司——中宜环科水体修复公司、中宜环保装备有限公司、和宜兴艾克森生态环卫设备有限公司。为鼓励青年才俊的创业，JIEI定期举行环保创新∙创业挑战杯，参赛者将获得来自该环保领域内专家的专业指导，拥有最具创新意义的环保技术的参赛者将成为最终获胜者，并赢得一笔很可观的启动资金支持。
详见：www.jiei.cn.

X-Lab of Tsinghua University

As a member of X-Lab, Zhonghan Yu, a master student from School of Environment, introduced his Start-Up idea and how is the X-Lab process. X-Lab is an intern Start-Up incubator in Tsinghua University. It has a stable and close connection with the environmental industries. By way of organizing trainings and competitions, it enrolls the best-qualified young students in Tsinghua, who has an entrepreneur idea to be feed, and then provide them best atmosphere with others to shape what they already have in mind into mature Start-Up ideas. At the last, X-Lab helps them find their capitals through its connections with multiple companies. If PLUS find its representative in X-Lab, then its Start-Up initiative would be quite doable.
For further information: www.x-lab.tsinghua.edu.cn

清华大学创意创新教育平台（X-Lab）

作为X-Lab和环境学院的一员，余中汉同学介绍了他的创业点子和X-Lab的运作模式。X-Lab乃清华大学内部的一个创业辅助平台。其与环保行业始终保持着稳固的联系。以组织培训和比赛的形式，X-Lab致力于招纳清华大学的有志于创业的在校学生，为其提供最好的创业氛围，以使其创业点子趋于成熟。依靠其良好的企业资源，为学生创业寻求最好的启动资金。若PLUS能在X-Lab中找到一位代理人，也将是一个不错的途径。

详见：www.x-lab.tsinghua.edu.cn