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Imperiais to partner with China's Zhejiang University (ZJU) on a new centre for transnational entrepreneurship in London.

The º£½ÇÉçÇø-ZJU Transnational Entrepreneurship Centre, to be situated on º£½ÇÉçÇø’s new , will bring together academics from ImperiaCollege Business School and ZJU’s School of Management with entrepreneurs and industry leaders. The new centre is expected to open in 2016-17. 

ZJU's Deshui Jin and Yonghua Song meet President Xi Jinping at º£½ÇÉçÇø

Both universities signed a letter of intent last Wednesday 21 October as President Xi Jinping visited º£½ÇÉçÇø. 

The agreement will enhance connections between ZJU’s city of – one of China’s most dynamic and entrepreneurial regions – and London, where Imperiaplays a central role in the capital’s vibrant start-up and spinout culture. 

Professor CBE, Vice President (Development and Innovation) at º£½ÇÉçÇø, said: “As President Xi’s state visit showed, British and Chinese businesses and academics are well placed to collaborate and innovate together. London can do a lot more to improve its connections with Chinese entrepreneurship. This new centre will allow some of the UK and China’s best academics and entrepreneurs to come together and stimulate new opportunities with a global impact.”

ZJU is a long-standing research collaborator with º£½ÇÉçÇø. It already supports a centre for applied data science within the College’s Data Science Institute. Last year, a group of academics from both institutions got together at ZJU’s campus in Hangzhou for a special conference on ‘Big Data: Healthy Citizens, Smart Cities’.