Launch of FISF New Building and 2025 Innovation Value Transformation Forum Successfully Held | MTT (planned)

Release time：2025-05-26    

FISF MTT (planned)  May 25^th 2025 19:45  Shanghai

On the afternoon of May 25^th 2025, Financial Education: 2025 Innovation Value Transformation Forum, hosted by FISF, was successfully held at FISF New Building in Handan Campus. Aimed to discuss the deep integration of finance, technology and education, promote the efficient transformation of technology achievements and inject new kinetic energy into high-quality economic development, the forum attracted several industry elites, expert scholars, entrepreneurs and university teachers and students to participate, forming a lively atmosphere on the site and achieving fruitful results.

At the beginning of the forum, Zheng Xu, Executive Vice President of Fudan University, gave an ardent speech. Upon the 120^th anniversary of Fudan University, Zheng Xu expressed, the launch of FISF New Building marked an important milestone throughout the development history of the school. Currently, the world is undergoing great changes unseen in a century and technology innovation has become the core area of the international strategic game. Closely focusing on national strategic needs, Fudan University is devoted to bringing technology achievements from laboratories to production lines to turn into actual productivity and serve national development and people’s well-being. Against such a social background, Fudan University centers on the national innovation-driven development strategy, actively pushes forward interdisciplinary integration and innovation and plans to establish a master’s program in technology transfer (MTT), devoted to cultivating leading technology managers and laying a solid talent foundation for technology achievement transformation and innovative development. This measure highly coincides with the strategic layout of Fudan University in the technology innovation field. Xu emphasized that FISF’s release of the technology transfer talent cultivation system symbolized a firm step of the school in cultivation of innovative talents and services for national strategies.

The release of the technology transfer talent cultivation system:

Laying a solid talent foundation

At the forum, Yuejiang Li, Secretary of FISF Party General Branch and Secretary of the Branch Party Committee of the School of Economics, and Jun Qian, Executive Dean of FISF, together introduced the preparations for and disciplinary features of the program.

Yuejiang Li, Secretary of FISF Party General Branch and Secretary of the Branch Party Committee of the School of Economics, introduced the disciplinary background of Fudan’s preparation for Masters of Technology transfer (MTT). He stressed that at the appointed time China must enhance its independent technology innovation capability and add more resilience to our economic system with the support of independent technology innovation for the industrial system. By combining disciplinary advantages and alumni resources, Fudan University is constructing a full-coverage all-life cycle technology transfer system, cultivating technology transfer talents and boosts the development of the national technology industry.

Professor Jun Qian, Executive Dean of FISF, elaborated the FISF features of the Masters of Technology Transfer Program (MTT). He pointed out that the program undertakes the talent cultivation task of Fudan University in technology transfer and achievement transformation, provides financial full-life cycle diversified services based on the advantages of a financial school and facilitates the development of science and technology innovation enterprises. Meanwhile, the program lays particular emphasis on international technology transfer to help Chinese enterprises go overseas and achieve technology landing.

Subsequently, the ceremony for the launch of FISF New Building and the release of the technology transfer talent cultivation system was held. Zheng Xu, Executive Vice President of Fudan University, Minmin Dai, Deputy Party Secretary and President of Shanghai State-owned Capital Investment Co., Ltd, Jihua Xie, Chairman of Shanghai Technology Exchange, President of National Eastern Tech-transfer Center and General Manager of Shanghai Yangpu Technology Venture Center, Shang-Jin Wei, Academic Visiting Professor of FISF, Yuejiang Li, Secretary of FISF Party General Branch and Secretary of the Branch Party Committee of the School of Economics, Jun Qian, Executive Dean of FISF, and Pengjun Sun, Director of Fudan Science and Technology Innovation and Director of Shanghai Zuquan Innovation and Transformation Research Institute (planned), went onto the stage for the joint unveiling ceremony, witnessing the significant moment.

Keynote Speech:

Perceiving the trends, Leading the future

The forum specially invited two industry leaders to give keynote speeches, making in-depth analysis on the new trends and new opportunities for technology-finance integrated development.

Minmin Dai, Deputy Party Secretary and President of Shanghai State-owned Capital Investment Co., Ltd, shared a speech entitled Constructing Patient Capital Ecology, Empowering Technology-Industry Innovative Integration. He talked about the key role of patient capital in technology innovation. Dai held that technology innovation had entered the “deep water area”, needing patient capital for key support, and at the same time must break through the innovation resource barriers to construct a complete ecology of technology-industry integration. In this process, it is required to focus on youth talent growth and build a fresh troop of innovative talents. By implementing a variety of practical measures including setting up a fund matrix matching with the innovation chain, laying out the three major leading industries (integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, biomedicine), future industries and other strategic commanding elevation of the industrial chain, deepening the collaborative network of innovative fountainhead, strengthening the fountainhead system in depth, improving the talent-driven transformation mechanism, and building a research system for characteristic industries from a high starting point, Shanghai State-owned Capital Investment is committed to empowering innovative technology-industry integration. In the end, Minmin Dai conveyed his expectation for further cross-industry cooperation between Shanghai State-owned Capital Investment and Fudan University in deep integration of various resource elements like “Government-Industry-University-Research-Finance-Service-Application Collaboration”, building collaborative innovation “friend circle” both inside and outside the university and addressing core issues of technology achievement transformation together. In this way, they could provide support for technology innovation and youth talent growth, helping to achieve national high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement.

Jihua Xie, Chairman of Shanghai Technology Exchange, President of National Eastern Tech-transfer Center and General Manager of Shanghai Yangpu Technology Venture Center, gave a keynote speech of “Technology Empowering the Deep Integration of Industry, Capital and Technology”, probing deep into the key role of technological factor market in the economic development in the new era and how to promote industrial upgrading through the technology achievement transformation empowerment system. Xie recalled the exploration process of Fudan University in the technology venture field and emphatically marked that technology achievement transformation required a sound ecological system, including technological factor market construction, the development of technology service industry. He further pointed out that with Chinese economy entering a period of fast increase and gear change that marks a period of structural adjustment, the technological factor market emerged just in time, not only becoming a new economic growth point, but forming effective collaboration with the traditional three major factor markets (land, capital and labor), injecting new kinetic energy into economic development. At last, Jihua Xie shared his profound insight into technological factor market and technology achievement transformation, indicating that the in-depth integration of technology and capital was key to promoting industrial upgrading and high-quality economic development.

Technology Case Sharing:

Practical experience to enlighten wisdom

There was a particular technology case sharing link in the forum, inviting two distinguished representatives from Fudan in the technology field to share their practical experience in technology achievement transformation.

Dr. Pengjun Sun, Director of Fudan Science and Technology Innovation and Director of Shanghai Zuquan Innovation and Transformation Research Institute (planned), shared a case called “promoting the high-quality high-efficiency industrialization of technology achievements and being a partner of scientists”. Sun noted that in the current technology ecology, scientist entrepreneurial talents were extremely rare. Accordingly, Fudan University plans to establish an innovative matrix with two goals: perfecting the capital ecology through technology innovation fund of funds, while also building a total-factor transformation platform and advancing technology achievement industrialization based on Zuquan Research Institute. He highlighted that transforming technology achievements from the bookshelf to the goods shelf required cross market gaps, handling technical risks and overcoming a series of other challenges. Fudan Science and Technology Innovation takes “being a partner of scientists” as its mission and is dedicated to establishing the industrialization ecology “from 0 to 10”, providing scientists with full-chain resource services and exploring the formation of an innovative mode and successful case of technology achievement transformation.

Professor Huang Tang, Deputy Director of Fudan University Fiber-Optic Research Center and General Manager of Guangdong Fuan Science&Tech Development Co., Ltd, took Fudan University Fiber-Optic Research Center - industrialization of disruptive photon secure communication technology for example and gave a sharing entitled “from Lab to Market: how to cross the “Darwinian Dead Sea” of achievement transformation. Tang introduced the scientific research findings and industrialization achievements of his team in the field of optical fiber communication and sensing technology, paying special attention to the need to address intellectual property issues and for the support of patient capital and national mechanisms. The Fiber-Optic Research Center has successfully applied scientific research findings to national major projects, achieving a total industrialization output value of over 100 million and obtaining the national first-batch disruptive major special support. His sharing vividly demonstrated the hardship of scientist entrepreneurs and provided successful experience and valuable reference for participants.

Roundtable Dialogue:

Connection between technology transfer and commercial value

In the roundtable dialogue link, Jiajia Hou, FISF MTT Program Director, hosted a discussion entitled “connection between technology transfer and commercial value”. Guests participating in the dialogue included Huang Tang, Deputy Director of Fudan University Fiber-Optic Research Center and General Manager of Guangdong Fuan Science&Tech Development Co., Ltd, Tingfu Wang, Founding Partner and Chairman of Richen Capital and PE/VC Alumni Association President of Fudan University Alumni Association, Haitao Sha, Senior Partner of Beijing JT&N (Shanghai) Law Firm and Doctor in Law, and Rong Xu, Founding Partner of TechIn Sphere and Top 10 of Hurun Shanghai Technology Managers. Focusing on the difficult points and pain spots in the technology transfer process from different perspectives of scientists, investors, lawyers and technology managers, the guests had in-depth discussions upon how to build a team with complementary advantages, achieve resource integration, cross-industry communication and technology assessment, and give impetus to efficient transformation and commercial value maximization of technology achievements.

MTT Program Introduction:

Cultivating leading technology managers

At the end of the forum, Jiajia Hou, FISF MTT Program Director, gave a detailed introduction of the construction of Fudan’s MTT Program. Based on the multidisciplinary advantage of Fudan University in various fields of finance, technology, science, engineering, medicine, law. The program combines industrial demands and builds a systematic course system and practice platform. It focuses on five types of people: technology entrepreneurs, technology transfer professionals, management personnel of technology, marketing and product departments in technology enterprises, service professionals like investment managers and legal personnel, as well as technology innovation service personnel in governments. The program has three functional directions: technology achievement commercialization, technology transfer finance and international technology transfer. And it pays attention to five industrial trends: artificial intelligence, biomedicine, integrated circuits, new energy and new materials as well as aviation. Adopting the cultivation mode of academia-practice integration, the MTT Program is devoted to cultivating leading technology managers with international perspectives, professionalism and innovation spirits and contributing strengths to technology achievement transformation and innovation development.

The successful organization of the forum provided a high-end platform for exchange and cooperation among expert scholars, entrepreneurs and practitioners engaged in the fields of finance, technology and education. Through profound discussions and thought exchange, attending guests developed a deeper understanding of the new trends, new opportunities and new challenges in technology achievement transformation. In the future, FISF will continue to further cooperation with all walks of life to jointly promote technology achievement, transformation and innovation development.