BGU and Chinese University to Partner on Innovation Center
BGU and Chinese University to Partner on Innovation Center
April 4, 2016
Business & Management, Leadership, Awards & Events
The Jerusalem Post – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Jilin University (JLU), the largest university in China, recently signed an agreement to establish a joint center for entrepreneurship and innovation.
Prof. Rivka Carmi, BGU’s president, and Prof. Li Cai, executive vice chairman of JLU’s University Council, signed the agreement in Jerusalem in the presence of China’s Vice Premier Liu Yandong and Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the Forum of Presidents of Israel-China Higher Education Institutions, a new initiative of the Council for Higher Education. The two universities also signed a memorandum of understand (MOU) in Beer-Sheva.
Prof. Li Cai, executive vice chairman of JLU’s University Council, and Prof. Rivka Carmi, BGU’s president, signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on BGU’s Marcus Family Campus in Beer-Sheva.
“This agreement is another stage in the internationalization of BGU and exemplifies the University’s commitment to academic excellence, international ties and economic growth,” says Prof. Carmi.
The agreement emerged through the cooperation of the two universities’ innovation centers: BGU’s Bengis Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, and the China-Israel Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Faculty of Economics at JLU. The two bodies will lead the activities of the new center.
The BGU-JLU agreement signing in the Chinese press. Prof. Rivka Carmi, BGU’s president, and Prof. Li Cai, executive vice chairman of JLU’s University Council, signed the agreement in Jerusalem in the presence of China’s Vice Premier Liu Yandong and Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett.
The first venture of the new joint center will be the launch of a global entrepreneurship and innovation conference to be held on May 16 at BGU. The conference’s theme will be “Entrepreneurship and Innovation, China-Israel – Challenges and Opportunities.”
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