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Biotech-related collaborative projects with
China national and regional programs,
successes, failures and conclusions
Rolf D Schmid Institute of Technical
Biochemistry University of Stuttgart, Germany
Conference London
June 4/5, 2007
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German biotech RD (public domain) cooperative
programs with China
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Center for the Promotion of Science, Beijing
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Federal Ministry of Research and Technology
(BMBF), Berlin
Partner in China CNCBD, Beijing Activities b
ilateral workshops in order to define 22
projects junior research groups in China
22 projects Chinese side supports German side
supports academic partner (100 ) academic
partner (100 ) company (50 ) company (50 )
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Baden-Wurttemberg Ministry of Science and the
Arts, Stuttgart
Partner in China STCSM, Shanghai topics nan
otechnology systems biology activities bilat
eral workshops exchange of researchers website
http//www.bw-shanghai.de/
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DAAD German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn
Bioscience scholarships for Brazil, China and
Indonesia (Ph.D. students and post-docs) 1998 -
2004
some 200 grants Germans to BR, CN, ID 10 BR,
ID to Germany 10 CN to Germany 80
Alumni meeting in Shanghai 2005 60 participants
new program from 2007/2008 German/Chinese junior
research groups
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Conclusions

• a tight network of cooperative projects exists
• scholarships to Germany much in demand
• scholarships to China less popular but interest
  is rising
• cooperative academic projects are implemented and
  often successfully run
• cooperative projects including industry are less
  developed and may take some more years to take
  off
• cultural issues significance of contracts, face
  value of negotiators