2018第二届“龙门创将”中国赛区大赛于5月29-6月1日在北京举行。30日上午，约克公爵安德鲁王子出席“龙门创将”中国赛区半决赛现场为大赛创业者加油打气，并就创新创业等问题跟与会嘉宾作了交流。创客猫受邀作为“龙门创将”中国方合作媒体参与大会并做了全程图文直播。
安德鲁王子赞叹了中国市场的庞大和重要性。他表示，对于创新创业活动来说，中国市场是巨大且非常有潜力的。
谈到企业家最重要的特质时，安德鲁王子建议，企业家要有坚持的精神，不要轻易被困难打倒，更不要害怕失败。当事情失败的时候，恰恰是你能学到最多的时候。因此碰到困难“不要沮丧，继续往前，坚持到成功，这是我个人觉得最重要的事情。”
谈到中英方企业家可以互相学习到什么时，安德鲁王子表示，其实并不是说要互相学习，企业家本身就是相联系的，现在不管在一些研究上、商业上、业务上都是全球化的，所以企业家都应该要有全球化的思维，多见见面，多交流，或许就能在商业上打开一个新思路。
同时，安德鲁王子对此次“龙门创将”中国区大赛的选手表现也印象深刻，“他们追求的科学是很有技术含量的，他们用一种非常专业的方式来阐述她们正在做什么？为什么要做？如何做？我也认为，我们龙门创将可以或多或少帮助到这些企业。”
据了解，Pitch@Palace 意为“在王宫呈报”, 中文名为“龙门创将”,是由英国约克公爵安德鲁王子于 2014 年创立的创业孵化公益平台。该项目致力于汇聚各领域最具影响力的行业领袖，为创业者提供强有力的创业支持。
值得一提的是，“龙门创将”中国区总决赛将于6月1日在钓鱼台国宾馆举行，届时创客猫也将带来持续的直播和报道，敬请期待。
以下为交流英文实录：（经创客猫整理）
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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