CIP FORUM 2018 is about to begin. CIP will welcome close to 300 participants to the event taking place in Göteborg on 23rd-25th September.

Our students from Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship and Sahlgrenska School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship are ready to engage in discussions on the CIP FORUM 2018 themes of Digital Transformation and Global Transformation - are you?

CIP Forum has started! 😍 #CIPFORUM

Kicking of with a interesting talk on digital transformation in India! 4 new startups created every day.. and they are not just Sillicon Valley rip offs..! #CIPFORUM

Listening to Awadesh Kumar explaining how Quenext is using Big Data on satellite images to improve insurance terms for India's vastly decentralized farming industry! A data package with almost infinite usage possibilities #CIPFORUM

What happens if Donald Trump is the next head of the USPTO? Reflections on #CIPFORUM

Day 2 of CiP Forum kicking off with a talk on the current transformation challenges in healthcare. What impact can AI and Big Data have on providing equal and accessible care to all?!#CIPFORUM2018

3rd and last day of #CIPFORUM2018 is all about globalization with China in focus! What challenges and opportunities meet a western company entering the chinese market? #chalmersschoolofentreopreneurship #ssie #cip

Now discussing the potential consequences of of the US-China trade wars. #cipforum #chalmersschoolofebtreprebeurship #ssie #cha

The US needs to bring the evidence to the table. Chinese transparency is accelerating through open source. Current contributions to eg. Linux from China today exceeds Japan! #CIPFORUM2018 #ssie #chalmersschoolofentreopreneurship

China is intensifying efforts to stimulate litigation, an increase particularly for foreign companies.

Have Chinese Joint Ventures, even the forced ones, been the foundation for innovation in the Chinese market? Some claim that they often proved to be a win/win. The key is the understanding of the Chinese market in combination with international best practices! #CIPFORUM2018

Starting of the afternoon with a panel discussion on innovation growth in China. Case in point: 27% of the VC funds of the world is in China..

Chinese demonstration of growth: SIPO receives 5x patent applications than the USPTO..

China is the lead nation in number of patent applications in the AI field.

Interesting fact on China: The middle class in China is bigger than the entire US population..

Key insight: responsibility and handling of data is of increasing importance due to the trend of convergance within industries. And also that all stakeholders have to be taken into consideration in policy making #CIPFORUM #chalmersentrepreneurship #ssie

Key insight: that standardization has to be be viewed hollistically since it Will be increasingly important for different industries futures #CIPFORUM #chalmersentrepreneurship #ssie