To help small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) overcome these As a result of the strong support of various governments and the challenges, governments in Europe and Israel are moving aggressively increasing global outreach efforts of startups, many startups from to expand market opportunities in high-growth emerging markets. [...] The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai (AmCham Shanghai) opened a SME Centre in 2012 to help boost the competitiveness of SME’s from the US in the Chinese Market. [...] In January to double the amount of government-led venture capital for 2014, the State Council amended 32 laws and regulations for emerging industries in a bid to ease the financing difficulties the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, further opening access for of SMEs17. [...] As McKinsey & Company put it in 2013, “It’s reasonable The intention of the 1000 Talent Plan is to attract foreign experts, or to conclude that a Chinese company involved in multiple joint returning Chinese talent, in the next five to 10 years to work in China ventures with the same leading multinational partner has survived and promote innovation and technology development primarily in several ro [...] The Ontario-China Research and Innovation Fund is a good example The STPs contributed 7% to China’s GDP and accounted for close to 50% of all of China’s R&D spending.28 of this type of funding support.