Professor Xiaolan Fu of TMCD was featured as a keynote speaker at the 2016 China Innovation Circles and Academy - Learning, Innovation and Competence Systems (CICALICS) Workshop. 

The initiative of CICALICS was built several years ago upon academia experience in Europe and North America. This year's event was hosted by the Sino-Danish Center.

In 2013, the SDC became an equal partner in the CICALICS network together with Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University. The same year the SDC hosted the CICALICS event in Beijing. Following the rotation principles in 2014 and 2015 the event was hosted by the collaborating partners and in 2016 the right to host the event came back to SDC.

The 2016 CICALICS Workshop aimed to link scholars and research groups on learning, innovation and competence building for development in China with international research communities. CICALICS provides a platform to discuss the challenges and opportunities of the industrial transition process facing Chinese companies and China at large. These challenges and opportunities include the dynamics achieved through global engagement and collaboration with MNEs and internationalization of R&D, including acquisition of R&D facilities abroad.

The theme of CICALICS Workshop 2016 was: Innovation at Local, National & Global Levels in a Collaboration Perspective.

To find out more about CICALICS, click here.