In order to promote Stanford’s international innovation management mode and the innovation exchange and cooperation between Silicon Valley and Qingdao Oceantec Valley, Qingdao Innovation Institute (QDII) and Qingdao Economic Academy held a “Stanford International Innovation Ability Manager Training Class” in Qingdao Oceantec Valley on September 5. Mr. Claude Leglise, Chairman of QDII, was invited to give a lecture about the innovation management of Silicon Valley. Over a hundred famous entrepreneurs and senior managers in Qingdao participated in the training, including Liu Xiaojiang, General Manager of Qingdao Civil Aviation Cares Co., Ltd., Fan Xiaoguang, Chairman of Qingdao Zhongfang Group, Ma Hao, Chairman of En Ma Real Estate Co., Ltd., Xu Bin, President of Guotsing Group, Gao Mingzuo, Chairman of Baojia Group, and Mou Ziwen, Chairman of Lida Group.

Dr. Huang Yannong, CEO of QDII, and Liu Yong, Secretary General of Qingdao Economic Academy delivered opening speeches respectively. Claude Leglise, Chairman of QDII, and Liu Yong unveiled the plaque of “Research Base of Qingdao Economic Academy”. And Dr. Huang Yannong and Wang Gangyuan, Deputy Director of the president class of Ocean University of China, unveiled the plaque of “Innovation Base of President Class of Ocean University of China”. 

Mr. Claude Leglise said in an interview, “We’ve condensed innovation into a professional thinking system that can be systematically comprehended and studied in a step-by-step manner, from an individual to a team, and finally becomes the innovation gene of the entire enterprise. The innovation rules have been explored, tested, refined and improved for decades in SRI International, and their effectiveness has been well proved in the past. Our team has shared the innovation rules in the US, France, the UK, Finland, Japan, Malaysia, China, etc. and has received favorable feedback. A raft of organizations participated in and benefited from our innovation mode, such as BBC, NTT (the then No. 1 telecom company in the world), Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan, and Chinese Academy of Sciences Chengdu Branch.”

QDII will keep working with Qingdao Economic Academy and other organizations to promote the Stanford innovation management mode in Qingdao and Shandong Province, propel the innovation exchange and cooperation between Silicon Valley and Qingdao Oceantec Valley, promote sci-tech-driven urban development, and create the sci-tech innovation ecology.