[photopress:Changshauniversity.jpg,full,alignright]First, what is an innovation center? It is a place where you improve products with, yes, innovations. Motorola has opened its Hunan Innovation Center in Changsha, where the company will focus on improving mobile applications.
Motorola says it had strong support from the Hunan government in building the Hunan Innovation Center. The center is located in the Changsha National High-Tech Industrial Development Zone’s Lu Valley Park, which is dedicated to advanced technologies and is a central part of the zone.
This idea of high-tech industrial parks works wonderfully well when carried out properly as it has been here.
First you need a top level university which has a focus on high tech. That is Changsha University of Science and Technology. Then a key company, of the level of Motorola, moves in and others follow. A close working relationship is built between the university and the industrial park. This helps development of new and improvement of old products and gives students the strong potential of work placement after obtaining a good degree. It is a situation in which all sides can win.
Source: China Tech News