Chongqing KU Leuven Institute for Smart City and Sustainable Development

In order to implement the national strategy of innovation-driven development, accelerate the advancement of industry-university-research collaboration and university-local cooperation, leverage Chongqing's existing industrial development foundation and market space, and draw upon KU Leuven's distinctive disciplines, research strengths, and capacity for industrial transfer and transformation, so as to better participate in and contribute to the service of Chongqing's economic and social development, through friendly negotiations, a new high-end research and development platform has been jointly established in Chongqing Liangjiang New Area, relying on the Chongqing KU Leuven Institute for Smart City and Sustainable Development. As a non-profit scientific research institution in Chongqing, the Chongqing KU Leuven Institute for Smart City and Sustainable Development relies on its own advantages to promote the internationalization and integration of the New Area, enhance the international innovation and entrepreneurship atmosphere, deepen external cooperation relations, promote the transformation of international scientific and technological achievements, accelerate the aggregation of world-class innovation resources, enrich the levels of international cooperation, expand opportunities for external cooperation, and provide strong support in grasping the needs of foreign nationals for innovation and entrepreneurship in Chongqing as well as in policy design and other aspects.