2018第二屆“龍門創將”中國賽區大賽於5月29-6月1日在北京舉行。30日上午，約克公爵安德魯王子出席“龍門創將”中國賽區半決賽現場為大賽創業者加油打氣，並就創新創業等問題跟與會嘉賓作了交流。創客貓受邀作為“龍門創將”中國方合作媒體參與大會並做了全程圖文直播。
安德魯王子讚歎了中國市場的龐大和重要性。他表示，對於創新創業活動來說，中國市場是巨大且非常有潛力的。
談到企業家最重要的特質時，安德魯王子建議，企業家要有堅持的精神，不要輕易被困難打倒，更不要害怕失敗。當事情失敗的時候，恰恰是你能學到最多的時候。因此碰到困難“不要沮喪，繼續往前，堅持到成功，這是我個人覺得最重要的事情。”
談到中英方企業家可以互相學習到什麼時，安德魯王子表示，其實並不是說要互相學習，企業家本身就是相聯繫的，現在不管在一些研究上、商業上、業務上都是全球化的，所以企業家都應該要有全球化的思維，多見見面，多交流，或許就能在商業上打開一個新思路。
同時，安德魯王子對此次“龍門創將”中國區大賽的選手表現也印象深刻，“他們追求的科學是很有技術含量的，他們用一種非常專業的方式來闡述她們正在做什麼？為什麼要做？如何做？我也認為，我們龍門創將可以或多或少幫助到這些企業。”
據瞭解，Pitch@Palace 意為“在王宮呈報”, 中文名為“龍門創將”,是由英國約克公爵安德魯王子於 2014 年創立的創業孵化公益平臺。該項目致力於匯聚各領域最具影響力的行業領袖，為創業者提供強有力的創業支持。
值得一提的是，“龍門創將”中國區總決賽將於6月1日在釣魚臺國賓館舉行，屆時創客貓也將帶來持續的直播和報道，敬請期待。
以下為交流英文實錄：（經創客貓整理）
Q：What do you think of the performances of the finalists of Pitch@Palace China 2.0.?
A：First I have been very very impressed with everybody’s reach today, the technology they have chosen to persue is very technical, and they have put close what they do, why they do it, how they do it in a very professional manner. And I know that my organization of Pitch@Palace came to be able to help most of those businesses in one way or another.
Q：As the initiator, what are your considerations on introducing the platform to China?
A：China is an enormous and potential market for entrepreneurial and enterprising activity. The number of the applications we received, for just these 42 places that we can offer, is in a region of 20000 last year . That is an indication of how large and how important the market here. So we are delighted to be able to support, as I say, the 42 that we can, we can’t support all.
Q：What achievement has Pitch@Palace made since it was founded? How will you continue to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the future, to continue to benefit entrepreneurs?
A：What we been able to do is to not only create value in the businesses here, to the tune of around 600 million pounds in the businesses that we’ve seen over the last four years, five years. We have created about 2.5 thousand sustainable jobs around the world, a new sustainable jobs in the business. The number of business they have survived is running at the rate of 98%. Those are achievements. And anymore, we’ve been to introduce them to investors and business can provide them supply chain, distribution system and connections.
Not anymore for what we are doing now, but we will be expanding our range and size of activities that we do, not only in China but around the world. There is a great amount for what we are providing.
Q：What quality do you think are the most important for an entrepreneur? And what the Chinese and British entrepreneurs can learn from each other?
A：I will suggest the most important thing for an entrepreneur is not to be put off by a countering problems. If you find moments when you think things are going to fail, that’s when you learn most. So don’t feel despondent, keep going. Determination to succeed is always something, i would say, the most important thing.
It not about to learn from each other, in fact, it’s about caleberated together, we know, to be able to produce a bigger and better organization. It could be in research, could be in business because there are businesses going to other parts in the world.So therefore, we can tie them together, or suggest they meet. They may want to become partners, in much case, you got a bro- company before you meet them or got any further from starting.
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