Code Moment | The Leap of Faith Live Room: Scientists' "Ocean of Stars" in Entrepreneurship
**Professor Haixia Zhang**, founder of iCAN & iCANX and professor at Peking University's School of Integrated Circuits. For many years, she has focused on research in micro/nano technology and micro-energy, achieving a series of fruitful results. At the same time, Professor Haixia Zhang has long been committed to innovation and entrepreneurship education and talent cultivation. In 2007, she launched the International Contest of innovAtioN (iCAN), which each year attracts tens of thousands of participants from hundreds of universities across more than 20 countries at home and abroad.
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Professor Haixia Zhang, founder of iCAN & iCANX and professor at Peking University's School of Integrated Circuits, has spent years focused on micro/nano technology and micro-energy research, achieving a series of fruitful results. At the same time, Professor Zhang has long been committed to entrepreneurship education and talent development. In 2007, she launched the International Contest of innovAtioN (iCAN), which now draws tens of thousands of students from hundreds of universities across more than 20 countries every year — considerable international influence. In April 2020, Professor Zhang pioneered iCANX Talks, a global frontier science livestream. To date, over 160 top scientists from around the world have delivered outstanding academic presentations, with each episode averaging roughly 400,000 viewers among global researchers and graduate students, and total online viewership exceeding 22 million.
As a scientist who has consistently paid attention to innovation and entrepreneurship, Professor Haixia Zhang has witnessed and helped numerous scientist friends and young researchers embark on their entrepreneurial journeys.
In recent years, a "mutual rush" between investors and scientist-entrepreneurs has been quietly unfolding. "Investors want to befriend more scientists and learn their language system"; "Scientists are moving from singular relationships with technology, labs, and students toward understanding the language of users and markets." Previously intersecting little, belonging to separate walled systems, both sides are now stepping out of their respective "cities." And Professor Zhang has been trying to build the bridge between these cities. She has closely observed the difficult transition from scientist to entrepreneur, and deeply experienced what can and cannot be done in translating research into commercial journeys. Professor Zhang's multifaceted perspective will provide invaluable experience for how we can help scientist-entrepreneurs launch original, hardcore technological innovation, and how to achieve the "leap of faith" from academia to industry.
November 9, 8:00–9:30 PM, Source Code Yisu "Leap of Faith Live Room" goes live on time! This episode will feature iCAN & iCANX founder and Peking University professor Haixia Zhang. In an intensive 90-minute conversation, Source Code Yisu's Xingchen Zhang and Professor Haixia Zhang will discuss the "ocean of stars" of scientist entrepreneurship. Scan the QR code on the poster, follow the Source Code Capital official account, and reserve your spot for the livestream — let's real talk!
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