Seminar on Promoting Open Innovation Ecosystem Grandly Concludes

On November 13-14, 2025, the Seminar on Strengthening the Internationalisation of S&T to Promote an Open Innovation Ecosystem in Asia-Pacific Region, hosted by National Center for Science & Technology Evaluation(NCSTE), jointly organized by China Association of Science and Technology Evaluation and Management of Scientific and Technical Achievement (CASTEM), and Shenzhen Center for International Exchange of Personnel (SCIEP), guided by the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and funded by the APEC Policy Partnership on Science, Technology, and Innovation (PPSTI), successfully concluded in ShenzhenCity, Guangdong Province. Tian Delu, Deputy Director-General of NCSTE, presided over the opening ceremony, while Yang Xuemei, Deputy Director-General of the China Science and Technology Exchange Center(CSTEC), delivered a speech on behalf of the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Through diverse formats including policy interpretation, practice sharing, and panel discussion, the seminar facilitated in-depth dialogues on new pathways for sci-tech collaboration in the Asia-Pacific region, and explored opportunities for advancing open innovation. This two-day event invited government representatives, scholars from universities and research institutions, and NGO researchers from ten economies, including China, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, Peru, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam. As China is set to host the 2026 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, this seminar served as a platform to showcase China’s sci-tech innovation policies and international cooperation practices to APEC members, thereby promoting open innovation and collaboration among Asia-Pacific economies.