Description
1. KellyOnTech is a video channel dedicated to explaining the global cutting-edge technology and scientific research projects of major universities in a simple and easy-to-understand language, introducing global technology companies, so as to help you better understand technology trends and discover investment opportunities. https://youtube.com/user/kellymanluo.
2. Mans International is a technology service company based in Toronto, Canada. It also has an office in Shanghai, China. Mans International provides B2B marketing and investment as a service to help technology companies solve their pain points, including high customer acquisition costs, long sales cycles, poor cash flow, and difficulty in collecting payments. It has built a mature international technology ecosystem mainly in North America and China. https://mansinternational.net/.
Chapter 1
1. Statistica—Statista is a leading provider of market and consumer data based in Hamburg, Germany. It has over 1,100 visionaries, experts, and doers continuously reinventing Statista, thereby constantly developing successful new products and business models. www.statista.com/statistics/870924/worldwide-digital-transformation-market-size/.
2. The World Economic Forum is an international nongovernmental and lobbying organization based in Cologny, canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on January 24, 1971, by German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab. www.weforum.org/.
3. Established on November 2, 2005, CITIC Capital Securities is a large national integrated securities company approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission. Registered in Beijing with a registered capital of RMB 7.757 billion, the company has 313 branches in 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and five subsidiaries, including CITIC Capital Futures Limited, CITIC Capital Management Limited, CITIC Capital (International) Financial Holdings Limited, CITIC Capital Fund Management Limited, and CITIC Capital Investment Limited. The Company has built a reputation for providing quality and professional financial services to governments, corporations, institutions, and individual investors, and has been rated by the China Securities Regulatory Commission for 12 consecutive years since 2010 as a Class A AA-rated securities company, currently the highest in the industry. www.csc108.com/comOverView/introduce.jspx#.
Chapter 2
1. IPlytics is an innovative market intelligence company headed up by a team of economists, computer scientists, and engineers. Founded in Berlin in 2012, IPlytics offers an online-based market intelligence tool (Iplytics Platform) to analyze technology trends, market developments, and a company’s competitive position. Our innovative IP analytics software provides intelligence for strategic business decision making for companies of any industry. https://www.iplytics.com/about/the-company-2/.
2. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. was established in 1987 and is headquartered in Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. Huawei is the world’s leading provider of information and communication technology (ICT) solutions.
3. TOPS is the abbreviation of Tera Operations Per Second, which is a unit of AI computing power. 1TOPS means that the processor can perform one trillion (10^12) operations per second.
4. Peter T. Lewis is a developer of wireless technology, sensor technology, and management of complex technical projects. He invented the concept Internet of Things https://wiki2.org/en/Peter_T._Lewis#cite_note-iot:Lewis-13.
5. SD-WAN—A software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) is a virtualized service that connects and extends enterprise networks over large geographical distances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD-WAN.
6. The Next G Alliance is an initiative to advance North American wireless technology leadership over the next decade through private sector-led efforts. With a strong emphasis on technology commercialization, the work will encompass the full lifecycle of research and development, manufacturing, standardization, and market readiness. https://nextgalliance.org/.
7. BT Group plc is a British multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England. It has operations in around 180 countries and is the largest provider of fixed-line, broadband, and mobile services in the UK, and also provides subscription television and IT services. www.bt.com/.
8. Horizon Europe is the EU’s €95.5 billion research and innovation program for 2021–2027 and the successor of Horizon 2020. https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/funding/funding-opportunities/funding-programmes-and-open-calls/horizon-europe_en.
9. The Hexa-X vision is to connect human, physical, and digital worlds with a fabric of 6G key enablers. https://hexa-x.eu/.
10. Nikkei has been providing unparalleled coverage of Japan’s economy, industries, and markets for more than 145 years. The group’s business portfolio includes publishing, broadcasting, and the Nikkei 225 stock index. Its flagship media, The Nikkei, has a circulation of approximately 2.83 million. With 36 bases globally and 1,500 journalists, Nikkei is ideally positioned to provide Asian news and analysis to a global audience. https://info.asia.nikkei.com/about.
Chapter 3
1. CB Insights is a private company with a business analytics platform and global database that provides market intelligence on private companies and investor activities. www.cbinsights.com/.
2. Gartner Inc. is a technological research and consulting firm based in Stamford, Connecticut, that conducts research on technology and shares this research both through private consulting and executive programs and conferences. www.gartner.com/en.
3. Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS (December 22, 1887 to April 26, 1920) was an Indian mathematician who lived during the British Rule in India. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan.
4. The World Health Organization (WHO). Founded in 1948, WHO is the United Nations agency that connects nations, partners, and people to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable—so that everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health. www.who.int/.
5. Didi Chuxing is the world’s outstanding mobile travel platform; it provides more than 450 million users with comprehensive travel services such as taxis, private cars, express cars, ride-hailing, luxury cars, buses, minibuses, car rentals, enterprise class, shared bicycles, and so on.
6. The RAND Corporation (research and development) is an American nonprofit global policy think tank created in 1948 by Douglas Aircraft Company to offer research and analysis to the U.S. Armed Forces. It is financed by the U.S. government and private endowment, corporations, universities, and private individuals. www.rand.org/topics/intelligence-community.html.
7. Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) is the world’s largest Chinese search engine, China’s largest Internet integrated service company centered on information and knowledge, and the world’s leading artificial intelligence platform company.
8. Tsinghua University is a major public research university in Beijing, China, and a member of the C9 League. It is also a member of Double First Class University Plan, Project 985 and Project 211. www.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/.
9. Analytics Insight is the world’s First Print and Digital Publication focused on artificial intelligence, big data, and analytics. The Analytics Insight Magazine features opinions and views from top leaders and executives in the industry who share their journey, experiences, success stories, and knowledge to grow profitable businesses. www.analyticsinsight.net/.
10. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, commonly referred to as Deloitte, is a multinational professional services network with offices in over 150 countries and territories around the world. www2.deloitte.com/ca/en.html.
Chapter 4
1. TSMC pioneered the pure-play foundry business model when it was founded in 1987, and has been the world’s leading dedicated semiconductor foundry ever since. The company supports a thriving ecosystem of global customers and partners with the industry’s leading process technologies and portfolio of design enablement solutions to unleash innovation for the global semiconductor industry. With global operations spanning Asia, Europe, and North America, TSMC serves as a committed corporate citizen around the world. www.tsmc.com/english/.
Chapter 5
1. Universal Robots is a Danish manufacturer of smaller flexible industrial collaborative robot arms, based in Odense, Denmark. The business volume in 2020 was 219 million U.S. dollars. The company has over 700 employees and over 1,100 partners around the world. www.universal-robots.com/products/ur3-robot/.
2. Mordor Intelligence is a fully revenue-funded organization founded in 2014. To date, they have partnered with 4,000+ enterprises across 20 industries, to deliver precise data and actionable insights in over 6,000 projects. www.mordorintelligence.com/.
3. MIT—The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has since played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, ranking it among the top academic institutions in the world. www.mit.edu/.
4. Soft Robotics is an industry-leading and award-winning technology company that designs and builds automated picking solutions using proprietary soft robotic grippers, 3D machine perception, and mGripAI artificial intelligence. The company’s transformational robotic automation solutions enable food processors to solve the hardest piece picking problems in the food and beverage industry. www.softroboticsinc.com/.
5. The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne is a public research university located in Lausanne, Switzerland. It specializes in natural sciences and engineering. It is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, with three main missions: education, research, and innovation. www.epfl.ch/en/.
6. MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is a research institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology formed by the 2003 merger of the Laboratory for Computer Science and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. www.csail.mit.edu/.
7. UBTECH is a global leading AI and humanoid robotics company founded in 2012. Born out of industry-leading breakthroughs first made in 2008 to digital servos—the core part that enables humanoid robots to move—UBTECH has grown its worldwide research, design, development, manufacturing, sales, and marketing capabilities to successfully launch an entire portfolio of world-class robots, including consumer humanoid robots, enterprise service robots, and STEM skill-building robots for kids at home with JIMU Robot and in the classroom through UBTECH Education. www .ubtrobot.com/pages/about-ubtech?ls=en.
8. The first official RoboCup games and conference was held in 1997 with great success. Over 40 teams participated (real and simulation combined), and over 5,000 spectators attended. www.robocup.org/.
9. The World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) has been successfully held three times since 2018. 2021 WAIC will continue to uphold the concept of Intelligently Connect the World, adhere to the principle of holding a “high-end, international, professional, market-oriented and intelligent” conference, plot various activities, build an international cooperation and exchange platform, and gather top scientists, entrepreneurs, government officials, experts and scholars, international organizations, investors, start-up teams, and so on. WAIC aims to promote the gathering and exchange of global AI innovation ideas, technologies, applications, talents and capital, and press ahead with the collaboration of global scientific and technological innovation, thus helping to build a world-class industrial cluster of AI. www.worldaic.com.cn/.
Chapter 6
1. SPAC—A special-purpose acquisition company (also known as a blank check company) is a shell company listed on the stock exchange for the purpose of acquiring private companies, so it does not need to go through the traditional initial public offering process to go public.
Chapter 7
1. DJI—Headquartered in Shenzhen, widely considered China’s Silicon Valley, DJI benefits from direct access to the suppliers, raw materials, and young, creative talent pool necessary for sustained success. Drawing on these resources, we have grown from a single small office in 2006 to a global workforce. Our offices can now be found in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. www .dji.com/ca/company?site=brandsite&from=footer.
Epilogue
1. Tencent Research Institute, a social science research institution established by Tencent, aims to promote the healthy and orderly development of the Internet industry through an open and cooperative research platform, relying on Tencent’s diversified products, abundant cases and massive data, and focusing on key issues of industrial development. https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E8%85%BE%E8%AE%AF%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6%E9%99%A2/8679548.