How China can attract foreigners and innovation – Annette Nijs

Xi Jinping and Annette Nijs

Annette Nijs, CEIBS Executive Director Global Initiative, was among the five presenters, was among five experts explaining president Xi Jinping at his visit at CEIBS how China can attract foreigners and innovation to the country.

From the China Daily:

When 53-year-old former Dutch Cabinet minister Annette Nijs presented her well-prepared talent-hunting strategy on Thursday, she had a special listener in Shanghai. Nijs, the ex-minister for education, science and culture who is pursuing a new career in China, delivered the advice to President Xi Jinping. Now the executive director of the China Europe International Business School, Nijs was one of 50 foreign experts from 22 countries invited by Xi to a meeting on China's development and talent policy. The meeting was high on Xi's agenda after a busy five-day schedule for a regional security summit and a series of bilateral meetings. Officials in charge of foreign talent issues said all 50 foreign experts work at Shanghai educational institutions and enterprises, and play a significant role in promoting development and breakthroughs in key projects and scientific research.

From the CEIBS press release:

Nijs spoke about different ways in which China can attract foreigners who can contribute to the country’s innovation. CEIBS, she said, is committed to playing a role in China’s innovation efforts, both here and abroad. In a presentation on “Bringing in overseas talents for building an innovation-oriented state”, she drew on her experience as a former Cabinet Minister for Education, Science and Culture in the Netherlands to offer suggestions on the way forward. Pointing out that top scientists and academics may not necessarily be the best innovators, she recommended targeting skilled and experienced innovators who can also be found among engineers, business leaders, serial entrepreneurs, etc. She also suggested soliciting solutions for innovation projects via the internet.

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Consolidating cooperation CEIBS and Philips - Annette Nijs

Annette Nijs

Executive Director Global Initiative of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) Annette Nijs led earlier this week a signing ceremony for a partnership between her school and the Dutch multinational Philips, a partnership focusing on health care and innovation.
From the CEIBS-website:

Annette Nijs called the event a "very special moment for us, because CEIBS and Philips have had a close cooperation since the start of CEIBS with the Philips Chair in Marketing, the Philips Chair in Human Resources, and the donation of lighting solutions for the original Shanghai campus." During the past 16 years, Philips has recruited more than 25 CEIBS graduates, and has sent dozens of its employees for training at CEIBS Executive Education programs. She added that the new partnership will develop a number of joint projects showcasing health care and innovation, including roundtable discussions, research and case studies, internships, classroom presentations, and more.

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Most-sought speakers for November 2010

Kaiser Kuo in 2008 via Wikipedia

Huge changes in this month's list of most-sought speakers, compared to October. Kaiser Kuo gained the top position and certainly made the biggest move this month. As he took his position as director international communication at China's largest search engine Baidu, we feared he might be working more behind the scenes. But for the past month, his valuable contributions kept on surprising us in a pleasant way.
His statement that internet censorship in  China was not giving Baidu a competitive advantage over Google irked some, according to the tweets we saw. His argument that the internet is not making us stupid got almost universal approval.
In terms of news the past month has been pretty busy for our speakers. Mostly our radar screen picks up a few quotes per day, but some of our speakers, including Rupert Hoogewerf, Wendell Minnick and Shaun Rein made many appearances.
Two newcomers on our top-10: John van Fleet, or educational and marketing specialist and CEIBS' Annette Nijs entered our list. Welcome.

The overview of the most-sought speakers for November 2010 (October in brackets)
1. Kaiser Kuo (4)

Annette Nijs via Flickr

2. William Overholt (8)
3. Arthur Kroeber (5)
4. Shaun Rein (1)
5. Rupert Hoogewerf (3)
6. William Bao Bean (9)
7. Paul French (2)
8. Wendell Minnick (10)
9. Annette Nijs (-)
10. John van Fleet (-)

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