On the morning of Oct.9^th, Chief Carrington Smith and Chief Gao Xiaoping of Technology Commercialization Department, Air Product (Fortune 500), were invited to NIIM. This visit focuses on research cooperation on open innovation and internship between two sides.

Prof. Chen first introduces the history and main research direction of NIIM. Then Chief Carrington Smith and Chief Gao Xiaoping introduce main business, innovation activities and open innovation of Air Product. Innovation activities of Air Product include internal-oriented open (external integration of technology) and external-oriented open (output of internal information). These two ways help realize Air Product’s abundant open innovation.

Prof. Chen also introduces his own research finding and concludes some characteristics in open innovation of Chinese enterprises, that’s, enough internal-oriented open while insufficient external-oriented open. Most of Chinese enterprises only pay attention to internal-oriented open, rather than external commercial of internal technology.

Then Wang Pengfei, a postgraduate of NIIM, reports his research on open innovation, taking SUPCON Tech for example. Finally, with accompany of Associate Prof. Zheng Gang, Chief Carrington Smith and Chief Gao Xiaoping look around Research Centers of NIIM.

Reported by Wang Pengfei, and translated by Lihua W.