OCSC welcomes Guangxi Province Educators Delegation (Photos + Pandas!)
The OC Startup Council offers educational services and ecosystem development events to local founders, investors, and visitors to Orange County - even when those visitors are from other ecosystems, like China.
It's the mission of the OC Startup Council to grow the local startup ecosystem and to help publicize Orange County's startup success stories and promote local technology entrepreneurship to fuel innovation.
As part of that mission, the OCSC was recently invited to present to an educational and trade delegation from the Guangxi Provincial Innovation Education Bureau visiting Irvine.
Their request was to learn "How to Create the Ecosystem for Startup Companies".
OCSC Hosts Innovation Ecosystem Delegation from China
30 university educators, administrators, and local government officials from Guangxi were in attendance. Their goal was to learn from American examples how to accelerate their own local startup communities back in China.
OCSC CEO Scott Fox offered them a presentation about startup ecosystems and how to build one as like ours here in Orange County.
Top points included the importance of local entrepreneur leadership, inclusivity, creativity, capital, and communication to foster innovation and entrepreneurship.
How to Build a Startup Ecosystem Discussions
There were many good questions asked about the role of universities, professors, local organizations, and government policy makers, too.
Sharing Knowledge can help build Startup Ecosystems
"Very good explanation on how the ecosystem of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Orange County works. We all consider the content very helpful for our I&E (Innovation and Entrepreneurship) education in China universities."
- Benjamin Wu, Executive Vice-President, Innovation and Entrepreneurship College, Beibu Gulf University (Representing the Guangxi Provincial Education Bureau Delegation)
"We were pleased to welcome these fellow innovation ecosystem professionals from China. I was happy to share the lessons we've learned about building a local startup ecosystem and discuss how our new friends can accelerate innovation communities in the cities and universities they lead in Guangxi, China."
- Scott Fox, CEO & Founder of the OC Startup Council
And, of course there were Pandas...
We were pleased to receive 3 plush Pandas as a speaker gift. Too cute!
Thank Yous
Thanks to our new friends from Guangxi Province, China, for initiating this dialogue. We look forward to working together more on accelerating innovation and building startup ecosystems.
Thank you also to K&L Gates, an OCSC Silver Sponsor, for sharing their beautiful conference facilities.
If your region, city, university, or local government is interested in learning best practices for how to build a startup ecosystem, please contact Scott Fox at the Orange County Startup Council here. We'll be happy to help.