为进一步提升杭州城市国际化水平，吸引海外高层次人才及团队携高新技术项目来杭创新创业，经杭州市委、市政府同意，特举办“创客天下·杭向未来 2022杭州市海外高层次人才创新创业大赛”（以下简称“大赛”）。现就有关事宜公告如下：

        一、组织机构

        主办单位：中共杭州市委、杭州市人民政府

        承办单位：中共杭州市委人才办、杭州市人力资源和社会保障局、杭州市科学技术局

        特别支持单位：杭州市上城区、杭州市拱墅区、杭州市西湖区、杭州高新区（滨江）、杭州市萧山区、杭州市余杭区（未来科技城海创园）、杭州市临平区、杭州市钱塘区、杭州市富阳区、杭州市临安区（青山湖科技城）和杭州建德市。

        二、 大赛主题

        大赛以发展我市信息经济、推动智慧应用为重点，整合各类创新创业要素，着力打造政府主导、多方参与，聚集政策、人才、资金、行业、市场等资源在内的综合性平台，引进一批属于智慧产业、高新技术产业、战略性新兴产业和传统产业改造提升等重点产业类领域项目，提升创新氛围，激发创新活力，引导创新投入，吸引更多的海外人才来杭创新创业，进一步提升杭州城市国际化水平，助推我市“两区”建设和经济转型升级。

        三、实施步骤

        本届大赛开设留学人员创新创业项目、外国人创新创业项目两个专场（以下简称“留学人员专场”、“外国人专场”），面向全球广泛征集创新创业项目。通过专场海选、复赛和决赛，从留学人员专场遴选出12个项目和从外国人专场遴选出3个项目进入大赛总决赛。大赛总决赛于11月举行，留学人员和外国人项目以共同公开路演的方式，决选出一、二、三等奖。

        四、“IEC·S”全球探索特别奖

        为进一步推动我市产业科技发展，有效解决我市各行业现存技术难题和高端人才需求，今年大赛继续设立“IEC·S”全球探索特别奖，公开发布我市亟需解决的技术性难题或高端人才需求，设定行业性难题、中小企业难题和人才需求难题三个类别的奖项，面向全球征集解决方案或紧缺人才。凡提出最优有效解决方案并被出题单位最终唯一采用的项目，或满足需求单位岗位要求的紧缺人才，在双方达成正式合作协议后，可获得相应奖项以及特别奖奖金。

        五、时间安排

        参赛报名截止时间为2022年7月30日。

        大赛将于2022年8月-10月期间分别举办大赛两个专场的海选、复赛和决赛，两个专场的决赛优胜者共同进入11月举办的大赛总决赛。从6月起，大赛将通过连续举办一系列的云上项目对接会、交流会等活动，邀请参赛的海外项目在线路演，向我市风投机构、知名企业、各类园区及孵化器和加速器等机构近距离展示项目并开展对接，促进资源交流。

        六、参赛对象

        大赛参赛对象应为有意向来杭创新创业的海外高层次人才，原则上要求年龄在55周岁以下，留学人员应在海外取得硕士及以上学位，具备海外创新创业工作经验，拥有市场前景广阔的创新性技术或成果。

        已在杭州落地创新创业的人员不再作为参赛对象。

        七、 参赛要求

        1.参赛者可以以个人或团队的形式参加。以团队形式参赛的，除项目持有者外，可另申报不多于三人的团队核心成员，要求成员间的专业结构合理，具有关联性和互补性，可稳定合作3年以上。项目持有者及团队核心成员满足申报条件的，即可享受大赛相关的创业资助及人才选拔等优惠政策。

        2.每个参赛个人或团队只能申报一个参赛项目。

        3.参赛项目中所提出的产品和服务，可以是参赛者参与或经授权的发明创造或专利技术，也可以是一项可能研发实现的概念产品或服务。项目产业属于高新技术产业和战略性新兴产业，产品、技术有较好的先进性。参赛团队核心成员必须对其参赛项目拥有合法的知识产权或使用权（授权）。

        4.参赛个人或团队应在进行广泛市场调研和分析的基础上，制作将产品或服务推向市场的完整、具体、有实施可能的商业计划书，其中应包括项目的技术、市场前景、经营策略、资金需求等方面，并展示团队的成员和未来规划，商业模式清晰。

        5.欢迎海外知名创新创业专业机构与大赛开展合作。确认合作关系的机构，可推荐符合大赛参赛条件且有意来杭发展的成熟项目直接进入大赛复赛阶段参与竞争。

        八、报名方式

        本次大赛采取网上报名的方式，登录杭州海外人才网大赛专区（https://hzzjlx.hzrs.hangzhou.gov.cn/)注册，填写报名资料并上传项目介绍PPT以及其他相关资料。

        九、大赛奖励及扶持措施

        （一）大赛奖励

        大赛设一等奖1个，二等奖5个，三等奖9个，优胜奖135个左右，获奖项目可分别获得20万元、10万元、5万元和2万元人民币的奖金。

        “IEC·S”全球探索特别奖设行业性难题、中小企业难题和人才需求难题奖项若干个，获奖者分别可获得5万元、2万元、1万元人民币的奖金。

        （二）风险投资

        发动杭州市各大风投机构与参赛项目进行融资对接。

        （三）落地对接

        大赛组委会将组织各特别支持单位、本地风险投资机构、知名企业、各类园区等单位，与参赛项目进行专项落地对接，加强海外智力与民营资本间的对接交流，做好项目在杭落地的各项具体服务工作，促进项目在杭落地实施转化。

        （四）大赛导师

        邀请海内外在创投领域具有相当影响力的人士担任大赛导师，为参赛项目提供创业指导、风险投资及行业性资源，帮助参赛项目迅速起步发展。

        （五）创业资助

        参赛项目于大赛结束一年内来杭落地实施转化的，可不经评审获得对应金额的市级高层次留学回国人员在杭创业创新项目资助；于大赛结束两年内来杭落地实施转化的，可申请对项目进行复评，经复评确认项目仍保持先进性的，可获得对应的市级高层次留学回国人员在杭创业创新项目资助。其中：获得大赛一、二、三等奖的项目对应资助金额分别为500万、300万、200万元，进入大赛决赛阶段的项目对应资助金额100万元，进入大赛复赛阶段的项目对应资助金额20-50万元。

        同时，进入大赛复赛阶段的优秀项目在杭落地实施转化的，可不经评审获得企业注册所在地的扶持政策。

        （六）优惠政策

        来杭落地并实施转化的项目，可享受所在园区税收减免、房租补贴、融资担保、贷款贴息等优惠政策。

        （七）跟踪服务

        大赛获奖项目在杭落地后，将针对项目发展情况提供相关的服务措施，其中包括：建立项目专人联系制度，定期回访项目团队，及时掌握项目运行情况；兑现落实大赛各项奖励及政策，做好获奖团队申请各类项目资助资金及其他配套政策的相关工作；提供银行金融扶持，安排专项信贷资金，保障大赛人才项目落地；为项目团队配备创业导师，为大赛“创客”量身定制创业培训课程，进行创业指导；举办大赛落地企业人才招聘会、创业沙龙等活动。

        十、注意事项

        1.本次大赛不对参赛选手收取任何费用。

        2.参赛选手不得违反大赛规定，所提交的参赛项目相关材料不得存在抄袭、盗用等不法现象，一经发现，即取消参赛资格或追回奖金。参赛项目涉及版权纠纷的，由参赛选手自行承担一切责任。

        3.因不可抗力因素影响大赛正常进行的，主办方有权对赛程作相应调整或终止比赛。

        4.大赛报名项目材料将针对杭州各大企事业单位、各类园区、科研机构公开发放，寻求交流对接。大赛或将采取项目路演的方式，路演过程将对社会公开。

        5.参赛选手完全本着自愿原则参加本次比赛，如对大赛有异议，可及时与大赛组委会办公室联系沟通，或选择退出比赛，但无权要求更改比赛规程或赔偿因参赛所发生的任何费用。

        6.大赛组委会保留进一步补充本次比赛规程的意见和最终解释权。未尽事宜，另行通知。

        7.大赛组委会办公室联系方式

        联系电话：+86-571-88381596、88389576、88389976

        E-mail：iechz@vip.163.com

                         创客天下 杭向未来                             

杭州市海外高层次人才创新创业大赛                            

          组  委  会                             

ANNOUNCEMENT

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition

for Overseas Talents 2022 • Hangzhou

The Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition for Overseas Talents 2022•Hangzhou (hereinafter referred to as “the Competition”) to be held by and with the consent of CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee and Hangzhou Municipal People’s Government for a further step of the city’s “go-global strategy” and an invitation to individuals and groups from overseas to start their business and career in Hangzhou.

1. Organizational Structure

Hosts: CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee, Hangzhou Municipal People’s Government.

Executive Organizers: Talent Office of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee, Hangzhou Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Hangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau. 

Special Support: Shangcheng District, Gongshu District, Xihu District, Binjiang District, Xiaoshan District, Yuhang District (Zhejiang Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City / Haichuang Park), Linping District, Qiantang District, Fuyang District, Lin’an District (Qingshan Lake Science and Technology City), Jiande City.

1. Event Theme

With focus on the future development of digital economy and smart technology, we have made the Competition an inclusive platform directed and co-managed by the city authority and other stakeholders, providing impressive policies, talents, funds, industries and markets that help launch new business, and giving a chance for startup projects involving smart application, advanced technology, strategic emerging industries and the upgrading of outdated business. This Competition, which targets all trail-blazers and venture investors, is making Hangzhou a much-favored city for entrepreneurs from worldwide. We believe it marks a further step of the city to perform in the global spotlight and helps out with her economic transformation and upgrading.  

1. Event Description

The Competition 2022 consists of two sessions targeting overseas students and foreigners committed to innovations or startups around the world. There will be 12 projects from overseas students with foreign academic degrees and 3 from foreign contestants, which have survived Preliminaries, Semi-Finals and Finals, that can reach the Grand Final scheduled in November, in which the first, second and third prizes will be given following a joint road show.

1. IEC·S Global Research Award

The IEC·S Global Research Award, in addition to the set prizes, will be given in this Competition to outstanding solutions or individuals from worldwide to help address burning technological issues or request for some urgently sought-after talents in Hangzhou. The Award is set in three categories: industry-specific problems, SME problems, and talent demand problems. The solution considered the most helpful and finally adopted by the soliciting party, or any talent who measures up to the requirements of the most demanding employer, can receive the award when a formal agreement has been reached between the two sides.

1. Timeline

Closing date for projects: July 30, 2022.

Preliminaries,Semi-Finals & Finals: August-October 2022

Grand Final: November 2022

More events like matchmaking webinars or networking sessions will be available from this June, an opportunity to perform a road show online to VC managers, notable enterprises, industrial parks, incubators and accelerators in Hangzhou.

1. Eligibility

We welcome talents from overseas with an intent to start new career or business in Hangzhou to join the Competition. Eligible contestants should be under 55 with a master (or above) degree, have experience in making technological innovations or running startups, and acquire new technologies or products with a broad market prospect.

Those who have started business in Hangzhou are not eligible for the Competition.

1. Requirements for Contestants

2. Bothindividualsor teams are allowed to apply. A team candidate should contain, aside from the owner of the projects, no more than three team members. They are required to appropriately share the academic knowledge on their program and can stay in cooperation for no less than three years.

3. Each contestant, either as an individual or a team candidate,is allowed to submit only ONE project.

4. Product orservice the contestant suggests canbe a self-developed or licensed invention or patented technology, or a concept likely to be materialized. The project itself should belong to a high-tech or strategic emerging industry and be technologically advanced. In a team candidate the core member should legally own the intellectual property rights of the project or be authorized to use it.

5. Each contestant should have a complete and detailed business plan that, based on all-out market surveys, can probably allow the projectsto gain a foothold in the market. It should be an account of any technologyapplied, market prospect, business strategies and funding request, and contain a description of all team members and a future development plan with clear business models.

6. We welcome startup incubatorsor other firms both in China and from overseas to cooperate with the Competition. Whoever has confirmed such cooperation is eligible to recommend projects that meet the Competition’s requirements and are likely to base themselves in Hangzhou to enter the semi-finals.

7. VIII.Registration

Please register on the website https://hzzjlx.hzrs.hangzhou.gov.cn (see the banner of the Competition), fill in the registration form and upload the slides and other documents with regard to the project.

1. Prizes and Support Measures

2. Prizes

We offer altogether ONE First Prize (200,000 RMB), FIVE Second Prizes (100,000 RMB), NINE Third Prizes (50,000 RMB) and about 135 Winning Prizes (20,000 RMB).

“IEC·S Global Research Award” winners will be separately granted a sum of 50,000 RMB (for specific industrial solutions), 20,000 RMB (for the small-and-medium-sized enterprises solutions) and 10,000 RMB (for solutions to intellectual needs).   

1. Venture Capital

Major VC companies in Hangzhou will be invited for projects financing connection.

1. Business Networking

We will organize networking sessions for the Competition’s special support units, local VC companies, noted enterprises and industrial parks to meet with project owners, making it a platform to secure the connection between overseas projects and local investors, and provide all necessary services to help them start and grow in Hangzhou.

1. Startup Mentors

We will have eminent VC investors or experts both in China and from worldwide as startup mentors providing guidance, venture capital and other resources for projects to take the first step and grow fast.

1. Sponsorship

These startups register their business and start operation of the company in Hangzhou within one year after the competition will be rewarded:

These startups which register in Hangzhou within two years after the competition could be re-evaluated after application. If the projects are confirmed to be advanced, they can be subsidized with the corresponding funding. 

Other startups (entering the Semi-Finals) register in Hangzhou can enjoy the various types of local policies without evaluation.

1. Preferential Policies

A project registered in Hangzhou is eligible to enjoy preferential policies of the industrial park where it is located, including tax cuts, housing subsidies, financial guarantees and discount loans.

1. Follow-up Services

After the winning projects are put into implementation in Hangzhou, the special project personnel contact system can be established. The project teams will be visited on a regular basis to master the operation of the project. The various incentives and policies of the competition be carried out, and the application for funding for various projects and the relevant work items of other supporting policies of the winning teams would be ensured; the entrepreneurial mentors will be provided for the project teams, and the customized entrepreneurship training courses offering entrepreneurship guidance will be made for the competition "makers" and activities such as job fairs and entrepreneurial activities and so on will be held.

1. Miscellaneous

2. The Competition is complimentary to all contestants.

3. No violation of any rule of the Competition is allowed. Any of unlawful submission of projects’ information or data, such as plagiarismand unauthorizeduse, is prohibited. Any contestant breaking such rules will be disqualified or requested to return the prize money. Any copyright dispute arising from the projects should be the full responsibility of the contestant.

4. If competition cannot be normally held due to force majeure, the organizer shall have the right to make corresponding adjustments to the schedule or terminate the competition.

5. Information of the projects will be given toall Hangzhou-based enterprises, industrial parks and research institutions with an intent to seek partners from the Competition. Road show open to the publicwill be an alternative for contestants to unveil their projects.

6. Contestants shall join the Competition of their own free will. They are allowed to contact the Office of the Organizing Committee for any dispute or question on the Competition or choose to quit. However, they are not entitled to request for any change of the Competition’s rules or compensation for any cost incurred for the Competition.

7. The Organizing Committee shall reserve the final rights to supplement the rules of the Competition and explain them. Matters not covered herein shall be separately informed.

8. Please contact the Office of the Organizing Committee by calling+86(571) 88381596 / 88389576 / 88389976, or by sending an email to iechz@vip.163.com

Organizing Committee,             

Innovation & Entrepreneurship            

Competition for Overseas Talents          

2022· Hangzhou