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11月17日，欧洲商业与创新中心协会（EBN）正式宣布，宁波诺丁汉大学李达三孵化园成功通过欧盟商业孵化网络中心（EU|BIC）体系认证，成为中国首家、也是目前唯一获此国际质量认证的大学孵化园。
这一里程碑标志着宁诺在科研驱动创业、创新驱动增长以及在地国际化合作等方面的卓越成果获得了国际权威机构的高度认可。
EBN由欧盟委员会与欧洲工业界领袖于1984年共同倡议成立，致力于为泛欧洲乃至全球范围内通过创新商业推动地区发展的机构和个人提供相关服务。EBN制定、实施和管理的EU|BIC认证标准，是欧盟委员会唯一认可的针对创新孵化与科技转化机构的国际质量认证体系。
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此次认证评估历时近一年。期间，EBN专家深入访谈孵化园运营团队、在孵企业及政府合作伙伴，从经营管理、组织架构、实践范例、服务模式及社会影响力五个维度展开全面评估，并通过系统性基准测试，将孵化园的服务和成果与欧洲同类标杆孵化器进行比较。
EBN主席Pietro De Martino
结果显示，园区在多项核心指标上表现突出，综合实力已达到国际一流水准。这让前来实地考察的 EBN主席Pietro De Martino印象深刻：
“宁波诺丁汉大学李达三孵化园在推动全球创新方面成效卓著，培养了众多具备全球视野的创新人才。通过高质量的孵化模式及公私合作，它已成为连接中国与欧洲创新生态圈的桥梁。”
依托诺丁汉大学在英国、中国和马来西亚三校联动的全球生态矩阵，宁诺李达三孵化园构筑了颇具特色的国际化核心优势。一方面，孵化园吸引世界优秀的创新人才和商业资源落地宁波，为来自埃塞俄比亚、挪威、英国等国家的初创企业进入中国市场提供全方位服务。另一方面，孵化园通过海外商务走访、平台开发和项目对接等形式，助力本土企业拓展丹麦、美国、匈牙利等海外市场。
设立英国海外创新合作中心、成立国际概念验证中心、举办全球创新创业生态大会……近年来，李达三孵化园持续深化国际合作、搭建创新平台、推动科研转化，构建了从创意激发、概念验证到产业落地的完整服务链条。
“李达三孵化园不仅是EU|BIC重要的中国战略伙伴，更是一个代表着EU|BIC质量体系所倡导的协作与持续改进精神的机构。”
同样给予园区高度评价的EBN首席执行官Laura Lecci说道。
截至目前，园区已累计孵化近60家初创企业，其中技术创新型企业占比达84.8%，43.6%的企业拥有国际化团队，企业存活率超过80%。
“我们将继续利用自身国际化和高水平科研能力等优势，携手本地及全球合作伙伴，构建更具活力和国际视野的创新创业生态系统，为解决全球挑战带来新的思路，为产业升级和社会发展注入新的动能。”宁诺科研与知识交流副校长柏书华（Laura Bishop）教授说。
The first and only in China: UNNC's Li Dak Sum Incubator gains EU|BIC certification
On 17 November, the European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN) officially announced that the Li Dak Sum Incubator (LDSI) at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) has been awarded the European Business and Innovation Centre (EU|BIC) quality certification, making it the first and only university incubator in China to receive this internationally recognised quality mark.
This milestone signifies that UNNC’s excellence in research-driven entrepreneurship, innovation-led growth, and locally rooted global collaboration has been strongly endorsed by an authoritative international body.
Established in 1984 through a joint initiative of the European Commission and European industry leaders, EBN serves a pan-European and global community that uses innovative business as a driver for regional development. The EU|BIC quality mark—developed, implemented, and managed by EBN—is the only international quality certification system for innovation incubation and technology transfer organisations recognised by the European Commission.
The certification process involved nearly a year of comprehensive evaluation. EBN experts conducted in-depth interviews with the incubator's management team, incubated start-ups, and government partners, assessing aspects including management, organisation profile, best practices, business support services and impact metrics. A systematic benchmarking exercise also compared the incubator's services and performance with leading European counterparts.
The results demonstrated outstanding performance across multiple key indicators, confirming that the incubator's overall capabilities have reached world-class standards.
“Li Dak Sum Incubator demonstrates excellence in cultivating globally minded innovators. It connects China’s regional innovation ecosystems with Europe’s through high-quality incubation and public–private collaboration,” said Pietro De Martino, EBN President and EU|BIC Auditor, who led the certification review in Ningbo.
Leveraging the global ecosystem of the University of Nottingham's unique tri-campus model (UK, China, Malaysia), the Li Dak Sum Incubator has developed distinctive international strengths. It attracts exceptional global innovators and business resources to Ningbo, providing comprehensive soft-landing services for international start-ups—including those from Ethiopia, Norway, and the UK—seeking to enter the Chinese market. At the same time, it supports local ventures in expanding overseas, including to Denmark, Hungary, and the United States, through international visits, platform development, and project matchmaking.
Through initiatives such as launching the UK Overseas Innovation Cooperation Centre, building partnerships with Italy's Liguria region, establishing the international Proof-of-Concept Centre, and hosting the Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit, the Li Dak Sum Incubator continues to deepen international collaboration, develop innovative platforms, and promote research commercialisation. It has established a complete service chain supporting the entire journey from ideation and proof of concept to industrial application.
“With LDSI, the EU|BIC community gains a strategic partner in China—an organisation that embodies the spirit of collaboration and continuous improvement that defines the EU|BIC Quality Mark,” stated Laura Lecci, CEO of EBN.
To date, the incubator has nurtured nearly 60 start-ups, 84.8% of which are technology-innovation focused, and 43.6% of which feature international teams. It has achieved a start-up survival rate exceeding 80%.
“We are committed to fostering a more vibrant and interconnected entrepreneurial ecosystem with our local and global partners by leveraging our advantages in internationalisation and research excellence. This will create new solutions to address global challenges, empower industrial upgrading, and contribute to society,” said Professor Laura Bishop, Vice Provost for Research and Knowledge Exchange at UNNC.
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