The Stepping Stone Symposia are instruments under the Sino Swiss Science and Technology Cooperation (SSSTC) for promoting academic and industrial participation of the program: Understanding the importance of dialogues with industry in translating research into innovation and to take advantage of the Sino-Swiss ties built up through research collaboration, the SSSTC wishes to encourage and pave way for the involvement of industries in the second action phase, SSSTC 2013-2016. The “Stepping Stone Symposia” are envisioned to be a series of conferences participated by the most outstanding scientists and
relevant industries. Through scientific presentations and discussions between enterprises and researchers, mutual understanding on limits and needs will be promoted. By bringing participants from both Switzerland and China together, local (Chinese) knowledge and perspectives may be brought in and innovation process facilitated. These conferences should thus be the “stepping stones” for translational research. To achieve maximum benefit, each symposium should be one of a set of two symposia for a given thematic area: the first one in Switzerland, and the second one in China. The current conference on cancer research and neurodegenerative diseases shall be the first of the series.

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