Lenovo's circle of small and medium-sized enterprises has expanded again.

On February 5th, Lenovo Group held the First Open Day of the Innovation Accelerator and the "New Business Innovation Ecosystem Roadshow" in Beijing. This roadshow event attracted over 100 cutting - edge innovation projects, and 23 representative enterprises showcased their technologies and products in fields such as AI computing power, core components, and software - hardware applications at the open day. Meanwhile, Lenovo's Innovation Accelerator systematically presented the phased achievements of empowering small and medium - sized enterprises (SMEs) in innovation, and held an ecological cooperation ceremony with multiple institutions. Lenovo's "SME circle of friends" expanded once again.

In the past three years, the "New Business Innovation Ecosystem Roadshow Season" events led by Lenovo's Innovation Accelerator have achieved remarkable results: cumulatively attracting over 400 cutting - edge projects, facilitating nearly 100 ecological connections, promoting over 60 projects to complete PoC (Proof of Concept), and helping nearly 20 projects achieve commercialization and capital connection.

At the open day, Lenovo announced the winning list of this roadshow season. Nine enterprises, including Guangyu Xichen, Jiangyuan Technology, Wange Zhiyuan, Yingmu Technology, Yanshan Technology, Wujie Fangzhou, Huangli Zhisheng, Mingxin Qirui, and Qiying Tailun, were selected. They will receive opportunities to participate in million - level PoC projects and priority rights for cooperation with Lenovo Group's factories.

The nine top enterprises announced in this roadshow event

Guests such as Yu Hai, Senior Vice - President of Lenovo Group, General Manager of the Commercial Product Center and Global SME Business; Wang Tianmiao, Dean of the Zhongguancun Zhiyou Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Research Institute, Honorary Director of the Robotics Institute of Beihang University; Wang Guangxi, Vice - President of Lenovo Group, Managing Partner of Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group; and Ji Zhaohui, Vice - President of Marketing in Greater China at AMD, attended the event and had in - depth exchanges on topics such as hard - tech investment, AI industry integration, and large - enterprise ecological empowerment. The participants unanimously agreed that in the new technology - driven cycle, the open and collaborative ecological ability has become the key to the sustainable growth of enterprises. Lenovo's Innovation Accelerator is an important platform for promoting the construction of this ecosystem. By linking the industry, capital, and innovative technologies, it will work with all parties to build a new AI ecosystem.

Open Integration Promotes Two - way Empowerment: Lenovo Collaborates with Partners to Build an "Innovation Community"

Currently, the core of global industrial competition has focused on the in - depth integration of technological innovation and industrial chain resilience. National policies clearly require "chain - leading" enterprises to exert their ecological traction and build a pattern of integrated innovation among large, medium, and small enterprises. Lenovo's Innovation Accelerator is a positive response to this policy. It addresses the pain points of technology - based SMEs in technology iteration, market access, and resource integration, and provides systematic solutions in an open ecosystem to promote AI industry integration and inclusiveness.

Yu Hai systematically reviewed the development achievements of Lenovo's Innovation Accelerator in the past four years at the meeting: an ecological membership system covering over 2,500 enterprises has been established, and extensive and in - depth strategic cooperation has been established with local governments, industry leaders, and first - tier investment institutions. The collaborative revenue of member enterprises and Lenovo has exceeded 1.5 billion yuan. He emphasized that Lenovo's Innovation Accelerator will open up more internal resources, connect with a wider range of external partners, and accelerate the business growth and breakthrough of SMEs in the global innovation market.

Yu Hai, Senior Vice - President of Lenovo Group, General Manager of the Commercial Product Center and Global SME Business

Wang Tianmiao pointed out that in China, innovation incubators should follow both national and market logics, as well as policy, industrial, and consumer demands. Lenovo's Innovation Accelerator "emerged as the times require" and will help ecological partners focus on cross - border and vertical fields, integrate into large - enterprise ecosystems, and promote systematic changes and industrial reshaping in the intelligent era.

Wang Tianmiao, Dean of the Zhongguancun Zhiyou Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Research Institute, Honorary Director of the Robotics Institute of Beihang University

Wang Guangxi introduced the positive role played by Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group as a co - initiator in the Innovation Accelerator project. It has recommended and sent over 30 invested enterprises to participate in the program and implement cooperation, accounting for 10% of the over 300 innovative enterprises it has invested in. He said that in the future, this proportion will be increased to 50%, enabling more and more excellent enterprises to receive support from Lenovo's capital and industry, achieve two - way empowerment with Lenovo, and promote the process of technology industrialization.

Wang Guangxi, Vice - President of Lenovo Group, Managing Partner of Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group

Ji Zhaohui shared his insights on the forefront of AI computing. He pointed out that we are entering the "Meta - Decade" driven by agents as the core for productivity. The deployment of diversified intelligent agents requires powerful, flexible, and secure computing power support. AMD and Lenovo are conducting in - depth collaboration, aiming to build excellent computing terminals covering all scenarios for enterprise AI.

Ji Zhaohui, Vice - President of Marketing in Greater China at AMD

In the round - table forum on "Growth of Innovative Enterprises and Ecological Empowerment under the Tide of AI Transformation", Song Hao, the person - in - charge of Lenovo's Innovation Accelerator, served as the host. He had a heated discussion with Li Yan, Managing Director of Huaying Capital; Jing Yiming, Partner of Zhilu Capital; Kuang Zheng, CTO of Qingting Acoustics; and Zhang Bo, CEO of Weiyi Intelligence around the topic. The guests unanimously agreed that the in - depth integration of business, capital, technology, and supply chain will trigger significant chemical reactions. All parties need to work together to break down the barriers between enterprises, investment institutions, technology manufacturers, and developers, and jointly build an open and resilient "innovation community".

Round - table forum on "Growth of Innovative Enterprises and Ecological Empowerment under the Tide of AI Transformation"

Helping SMEs Steadily Move Forward: Lenovo Delivers an Impressive Answer with the "Full - Link" Model

In the context of the Chinese economy, SMEs are important players in technological innovation, but their path to development and growth is full of obstacles. Especially at the critical stage when AI technology is accelerating from the laboratory to the real economy and specific scenarios, they are limited by technology reserves and financial pressure and have difficulty realizing the commercial value brought by AI.

As an enterprise in the AI ecosystem and a "chain - leading" enterprise, Lenovo firmly believes that empowering SMEs to move forward steadily is the most valuable investment in the future. In 2022, Lenovo launched the "Star Plan for Start - ups", starting from serving the IT needs of enterprises and gradually expanding its ecological map and service functions. Based on a good ecological foundation, this plan was officially upgraded to Lenovo's Innovation Accelerator in 2025 and gradually built a full - link empowerment system for SMEs covering concept verification, product development, market expansion, and capital support.

Specifically, when an innovative enterprise or a research team has a new technology concept, Lenovo Research Institute will intervene to assist in early exploratory research and promote the transformation of laboratory technology into a product prototype that can be applied by Lenovo's business departments; Lenovo's SME Business Unit will lead the product PoC; once the technical solution meets the mass - production standard, Lenovo will use the flexible production lines in Hefei, Tianjin, Shenzhen and other places in its supply chain system to help it efficiently complete trial production, mass production, and product iteration. Through one to two years of collaborative refinement, the cutting - edge technology will finally be transformed into a mature product for the market.

Based on this model, many typical cooperation cases have emerged from Lenovo's Innovation Accelerator. For example, Lenovo and Taifang Technology co - created in - depth and launched the industry's first three - in - one pressure touchpad solution integrating capacitive touch, pressure sensing, and tactile drive. This solution has been successfully applied to mass - produced models, with a cumulative shipment of hundreds of thousands of units; in cooperation with Qingting Acoustics, Lenovo introduced its globally - first directional sound amplification technology of the sound - focusing screen into Lenovo's PC hardware ecosystem and applied it to the Lenovo ThinkCentre M90a Pro Gen6 all - in - one computer. Currently, this product has been officially mass - produced as the industry's first PC equipped with this technology.

To further strengthen the ecological connection with SMEs, this open - day event also brought together multiple forces to inject new impetus into the sustainable development of the industrial ecosystem. At the open - day site, Lenovo Group, Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group, Zhilu Capital, Pukou Software Park Venture Capital, TusStar, Zhiyou Research Institute, Beijing Zhongguancun Bank, and Inno Angel Fund jointly held an ecological cooperation ceremony for the Innovation Accelerator with the theme of "Building an Ecosystem through Collaboration and Driving the Future through Innovation". Multiple institutions will pool resources and strength to jointly help SMEs leap from the "laboratory workbench" to the "hundred - billion - level large market".

Lenovo Group holds an ecological cooperation ceremony for the Innovation Accelerator with multiple institutions

Looking forward to the future, Yu Hai finally said that Lenovo's Innovation Accelerator will be based on Lenovo's innovative product matrix, technological advantages, and global supply chain, adhere to an open and integrated attitude, practice the concept of two - way empowerment, help each partner grow resiliently, and finally become a towering tree.

This article is from the WeChat official account "Think Together". Author: Think Together. Republished by 36Kr with permission.