{"id":81840,"date":"2017-06-23T09:34:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T09:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ec1f1ea973d90f3f7951698cafea480e"},"modified":"2017-06-23T09:34:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T09:34:39","slug":"news-story-uk-business-opportunities-in-china-new-innovation-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=81840","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK business opportunities in China: new innovation partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Representatives from the UK and Guangdong province met last week (14 June 2017) to sign a memorandum of understanding that confirms their intention to work together.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Baughan, Deputy Chief Executive, signed on behalf of Innovate UK, meeting with Mr Hu Chuanhua, Party Secretary of Guangdong.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"innovation-in-guangdong-province\">Innovation in Guangdong province<\/h2>\n<p>Guangdong is the largest provincial economy in China and a principle driver of the national economy. It offers significant opportunities for UK entrepreneurs to partner with like-minded organisations and collaborate on business research and development projects.<\/p>\n<p>In July we will be opening a competition for UK businesses to collaborate with Chinese partners on projects to improve cities in the Guangdong province. This will focus on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>smart mobility<\/li>\n<li>big data solutions that promote affordable healthcare<\/li>\n<li>smart platforms for sustainable urban environments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It will be part of the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newtonfund.ac.uk\/\">Newton Fund<\/a> and impose official development assistance (ODA) criteria.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"other-funding-opportunities\">Other funding opportunities<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to the upcoming competition in Guangdong, there have been a number of other fund and connect programmes this year to support innovative UK-Chinese business partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, up to \u00a38 million is available to UK businesses and researchers to work with Chinese partners on cutting-edge technologies that solve agricultural challenges in China. This is a Newton Fund competition. The deadline for registrations is 26 July 2017.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/agricultural-challenges-in-china-apply-for-innovation-funding\">Find out more about the UK-China agritech programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>We have a number of other competitions planned with China in the coming months. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/email-signup\/new?email_signup%5Bfeed%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Forganisations%2Finnovate-uk.atom\">Sign up for email updates to be alerted to new competitions as they open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk\/competition\/search\">Search all current funding opportunities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agreement between the UK and Guangdong province will help businesses work with Chinese partners to innovate and access global markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}