Brief Introduction to
Jiangsu Association for International Science and Technology Cooperation

The Jiangsu Province International Science and Technology Cooperation Association (JAISTC) was initiated on July 8, 2016, by five organizations, including the Jiangsu Entrepreneurship Service Center. It is a provincial, cooperative, professional, and non-profit social organization registered and managed by the Jiangsu Provincial Civil Affairs Department.

The association serves as an extension and complement to official science and technology foreign affairs work, undertaking tasks commissioned by government science and technology departments. On the other hand, it provides services such as training, intermediation, consulting, technology transfer, and enterprise incubation, playing a role in socialized services for the third industry. In response to the national "Belt and Road" strategy and the important deployment of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Government to build the province into a globally influential industrial technology innovation center during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, JAISTC will fully leverage the global international science and technology partnership network, promoting the aggregation of international high-quality resources to Jiangsu and facilitating the transfer of international advanced technology to Jiangsu, thereby serving Jiangsu's economic construction, social development, and scientific and technological progress.

The business scope of JAISTC includes the following:

1.Fully utilizing domestic and international scientific and technological resources and actively integrating international science and technology cooperation resources to provide strong support for implementing the innovation-driven development strategy in Jiangsu.

2.Organizing and conducting international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, introducing overseas scientific and technological achievements and high-end talents, coordinating and inspecting activities related to technology projects and investment management, organizing overseas training in scientific and technological innovation, high-end technologies and management on High-Tech industrial parks and incubators as well as academic forums, technology exhibitions, project roadshows, investment promotion, and introduction of talents. JAISTC also takes on relevant tasks entrusted by the government.

3.Providing technological information analysis, technology evaluation, technology intellectual property transactions, science and technology finance, and other services to grassroots levels, along with consulting services on relevant science and technology policies and information.

4.Offering consulting and demonstration services for the innovative internationalization construction of various types of parks.Providing information, policy, legal, and other consulting services for Jiangsu enterprises and institutions to establish branches overseas, especially in the context of participating in the national "Belt and Road" strategy.

5.Conducting soft scientific research related to international science and technology cooperation and providing policy recommendations to government departments and relevant units.

6.Editing and publishing publications, materials, and books on international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation.

JAISTC is a non-governmental organization engaged in promoting international science and technology cooperation in Jiangsu Province. It serves as a civilian platform for international science and technology cooperation and exchanges, a gathering place for international science and technology cooperation workers in Jiangsu Province, and a channel and window for foreign partners seeking cooperation in technology with Jiangsu.

Since its establishment, JAISTC has worked together with provincial incubator associations, the Wuxi Talent Leadership Group Office, and other institutions to organize senior management personnel from high-tech zones, incubators, high-tech enterprises, universities, and research institutes in Jiangsu to visit and conduct training and project matching activities in the United States, Canada, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and other countries on themes related to science and technology parks and incubator management, intelligent manufacturing, and leadership enhancement. Simultaneously, JAISTC has assisted some high-tech zones in the province to set up offices overseas and organized investment promotion and talent introduction activities. Utilizing abundant overseas innovation resources, JAISTC successfully facilitated projects such as the establishment of the Monash University Metal 3D Printing Project, FESTO from Germany, and the wafer testing equipment (AOI) project of the listed company Changchuan Technology in Jiangsu province.

Furthermore, the association often visits enterprises to collect demands for international innovation and conducts consultations and diagnosis. Previously, it led experts from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Technology in Germany to visit Yangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, and other prefecture cities in Jiangsu for technology needs matching and held training activities in intelligent manufacturing. Currently, JAISTC is also working on the technical matching and transfer of a batch of projects.