中国深圳创新创业大赛第三届国际赛于2018年12月1日正式启动。大赛集聚海外优质项目，整合创新创业资源，协助海外创新创业项目对接中国高新产业资源，开拓中国市场，实现互利共赢。

The 3rd China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship International Competition will be officially launched on December 1st, 2018. The competition will attract numerous high-quality overseas projects, as well as integrate innovation and entrepreneurship resources to help foreign innovation and entrepreneurship projects connect with Chinese hi-tech industrial resources, thus expanding the Chinese market for mutual benefits and win-win results.

本届大赛于2018年12月1日到2019年2月28日期间接受报名，2019年3月将在全球9个国家的10个城市分别举办10场海外分站赛，同期专业赛启动项目初选。2019年4月，海外分站赛和专业赛晋级的100多个优秀项目将集聚深圳，瞄准大赛最高荣誉和奖项，通过专业赛决赛、行业决赛和总决赛展开多轮激烈角逐。

Registration for the competition is open from December 1st, 2018 to February 28th, 2019. In March 2019, 10 different sessions of Overseas Division Competitions will be held in 10 cities across 9 countries, while the preliminary round for the Professional Competition is scheduled to start at the same time. In April 2019, more than 100 outstanding projects selected from the Overseas Division Competitions and Professional Competition will meet in Shenzhen and compete in multiple rounds including Professional Finals, Industrial Finals and Finals for the highest honors and awards of the competition.

大赛除设置丰厚的奖金外，还为优质创业项目提供产业奖励、科技金融、项目孵化等政策支持。

In addition to the generous prizes, the competition also provides high-quality entrepreneurship projects with support such as industrial incentives, financial technology and project incubation.

本届国际赛继续链接全球创新项目集聚的城市和地区，扩大办赛规模。在上届大赛设置9个海外分站赛的基础上，新增西班牙马德里分站赛。大赛海外分站赛数量达到10个，分别是：澳大利亚悉尼、加拿大多伦多、德国柏林、以色列特拉维夫、日本东京、瑞典斯德哥尔摩、西班牙马德里、美国波士顿、美国硅谷和英国伦敦。

This year’s international competition will continue to connect global cities and regions to achieve an expanded scale. A new session of the Overseas Division Competitions has been added to the previous nine sessions and will be held in Madrid (Spain). Therefore, there will be a total of ten sessions of the Overseas Division Competitions, which will be held in Sydney (Australia), Toronto (Canada), Berlin (Germany), Tel Aviv (Israel), Tokyo (Japan), Stockholm (Sweden), Madrid (Spain), Boston (U.S.A.), Silicon Valley (U.S.A.) and London (U.K.).

为大力实施创新驱动发展战略，形成梯次发展的产业结构和新的竞争优势，本届国际赛在原有互联网、先进制造、电子科技、生物与生命科技、材料与能源（含节能环保）5大行业赛基础上，针对深圳市支柱产业的发展，设置物联网、人工智能、金融科技3大专业赛。符合专业赛参赛条件的项目在报名参加行业赛的同时，可报名参加专业赛。

In order to implement its innovation-driven development strategy and promote Shenzhen’s industrial structure, this year’s competition has added three new Professional Competition Categories to last year's five Industrial Competitions Categories.

They are:

Professional Competitions:

1. Internet of Things

2. Artificial Intelligence

3. Financial Technology

Industrial Competitions:

1. Information and Communications Technology

2. Advanced Manufacturing

3. Electronic Science and Technology

4. Biology and Life Science and Technology

5. Materials & Energy (including energy conservation and environmental protection).

Contestants may register projects under both Professional Competitions and Industrial Competitions, provided that they meet the required conditions.

参与本届国际赛的创投机构达40家。由深创投、松禾资本、东方富海、同创伟业、青橙资本等多家知名投资机构领衔，与大赛直接对接，组合形成总额250亿元人民币的创投资金池，对大赛优秀项目进行组合投资。在分站赛比赛期间，我市的投资机构、投资人将担任评委、导师，深入到各个国家和比赛地区，开展项目对接活动。所有参赛项目均可通过大赛投资对接服务平台获得社会资本的投资机会。同时，精选2家银行机构开展以“投融贷”“人才贷”等多种形式的金融服务方案，丰富落地企业在融资方面的多元选择，帮助参赛者更快发展。

Up to 40 venture capital organizations are going to participate in the international competition. A number of renowned investment organizations represented by Shenzhen Capital Group, Shenzhen Green Pine Capital, Oriental Fortune Capital, Cow in capital and Green Orange Capital will connect directly during the competition and form a venture capital fund pool of RMB25 billion to carry out portfolio investment on outstanding competition projects. During the division competitions, investment organizations and investors from Shenzhen will serve as judges and supervisors and engage in project connections in different countries and divisions. All participating projects will be provided with social capital investment opportunities through the investment connection service platform of the competition. Meanwhile, two banks will be selected to offer various forms of financial service solutions such as “investment and financing loans” and “talent loans” so as to offer more options to the settling companies in terms of financing and facilitate the development of contestants.

2019赛季，深圳市源创力离岸创新中心将继续作为大赛官方指定执行机构，承办中国深圳创新创业大赛第三届国际赛-波士顿分站赛。此前，深圳市源创力离岸创新中心已经成功承办包括2018年中国深圳创新创业大赛第二届国际赛波士顿分站赛、新加坡创新创业大赛、2017年英国牛津创新创业大赛等在内的多项世界范围内的大型国际创赛。2019年，源创力将在继承此前多年的办赛经验基础上，发挥出更优异的组织和执行力，为参赛选手提供强有力的支持。让我们共同期待大赛的圆满成功！

In the year 2019, as the official authorized executor of the 3rd China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship International Competition, Shenzhen CRI Innovation Center will hold the competition in Boston, the U.S.A. Based on the experiences from the 2018 2nd China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship International Competition, the Singapore Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition, the 2017 Oxford( the U.K.) Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition , it is expected that CRI would have a better performances on the organization and execution of the competition. At the meantime, there is no doubt that CRI would provide strong support or all the participants through the entire process of the competition. Let us look forward to a complete success of the 3rd China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship International Competition!