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How Zhangjiang's incubators turn sci-tech 'seeds' into 'towering trees'

在上海张江 孵化器如何将科创"种子"培育成"参天大树"

A feature by The Paper tours several incubators in Shanghai's Zhangjiang Science City, profiling a young AI startup founder and a veteran biotech incubator operator. The piece reports that Zhangjiang now hosts 158 innovation and entrepreneurship platforms, with around 2,500 companies in incubation, and describes how state, private, and foreign capital jointly build an 'innovation rainforest' focused on hard-tech sectors like integrated circuits, biomedicine, and AI.

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The article frames incubators not as mere office providers but as '转化器' (transformers) that accelerate a healthy innovation ecosystem.

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