Research strength
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The discipline combines Western economics with digitalisation, focusing on the application of economics to smart health, the digitalisation of labour markets, tourism and the industrialisation of cultural heritage, embedding non-technical requirements in the design of products and services, and addressing the barriers to application posed by socio-economic issues.
Research strength：
-Smart health
-Digital industry
Research platform:
-Ningbo Community Research Centre
-Ningbo Municipal Government Development Research Centre-Institute of International Cooperation
This discipline focuses on the strategy and management of multinational enterprises, investment and financing strategies, supply chain management, Belt and Road, smart manufacturing, digital transformation, digital economy, marketing and brand strategy, providing Chinese and Western theoretical support for export-oriented enterprises in strategic planning and overcoming investment and financing shortcomings.
Research strength：
-Marketing and innovation and entrepreneurship
-Digital transformation
-Corporate management
-Technology economics and management
Research platform:
-Innovation Policy Research Base
-Ningbo Social Science Research Base on International Talent Development
-Ningbo Social Science Research Base on Socio-economic Resilience and Regeneration in Rural Areas
Chemical engineering & technology
Based on the four main research directions of chemical engineering, environmental engineering, industrial catalysis and green chemical engineering, this discipline develops a multi-track parallel talent training model and provides technical support for green chemical engineering, pollution and carbon reduction and circular economy.
Research strength：
-Green chemical industry
-Pollution and carbon reduction
-Circular economy
Research platform:
-Zhejiang - Canada Joint Laboratory on Green Chemicals and Energy
-Key Laboratory for Carbonaceous Wastes Processing and Process Intensification Research of Zhejiang Province
Computer science & technologies
The discipline has been accredited by BCS and has been selected as a key construction discipline and an advantageous major in Ningbo. Its exploration in the frontier field of computing has gradually developed into a high-end digital talent training base in Ningbo, with fruitful teaching and research results.
Research strength：
-Computer science and operations
-Artificial intelligence and machine learning
-Computer vision
Research platform:
-Ningbo Key Laboratory of Digital Port Technologies
EEE was awarded the first batch of first-class undergraduate majors in Zhejiang Province in 2019, and has passed IET accreditation, carrying out UG and PhD talent cultivation in the direction of electric motors and electrical appliances, power electronics, intelligent electronics and medical electronics, with distinctive international characteristics.
Research strength：
-Electric drive
-Medical electronics
Research platform:
- Key Laboratory on More Electric Aircraft Technology of Zhejiang Province
- Engineering Research Centre of Aviation Electrification Technology of Zhejiang Province
Journalism and communications
The discipline focuses on the study of media in industry and communication, providing theoretical and practical support to the news media, film and television industries, multinational communications companies, communities and various self-media industries.
Research strength：
-Journalism
-Communication studies
Research platform:
-Ningbo Social Science Research Base on International Development of Ningbo Cultural and Creative Industries
This discipline not only has international leading advantages, but is also closely integrated with Ningbo's industrial structure. It has accumulated many years of technology in precision/ultra precision processing, non-traditional processing (ultrafast laser, water jet, electron beam processing) and additive manufacturing and has achieved fruitful teaching and research results.
Research strength:
-Precision optical manufacturing
-High-end equipment manufacturing
Research platform:
-Ningbo Key Laboratory on Product Green Manufacturing Evaluation and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Technologies
-ACC TECH - UNNC Joint Lab in Sustainable Composites Materials
- International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Ministry of Science and Technology
- Key Laboratory on More Electric Aircraft Technology of Zhejiang Province
- Key Laboratory for Carbonaceous Wastes Processing and Process Intensification Research of Zhejiang Province
- Engineering Research Centre of Aviation Electrification Technology of Zhejiang Province
- Engineering Research Centre of Development and Application of Cryogen-free MRI of Zhejiang Province
- Engineering Research Centre of Diamond Functional Materials and Application of Zhejiang Province
- Zhejiang-Canada Joint Laboratory on Green Chemicals and Energy
- Zhejiang-Germany Joint Laboratory on Smart Grid Technologies
- Innovation Policy Research Base
- Nottingham Ningbo China Beacons of Excellence Research and Innovation Institute
- AHRC Centre for Digital Copyright and IP Research in China
- Centre for Inclusive Finance
- Global Institute for Silk Road Studies
- Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies
- Nottingham Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy
- NVIDIA Joint-Lab on Mixed Reality, NVIDIA Technology Centre
- UNNC-NFTZ Blockchain Laboratory
- Centre for Health Economics
- Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies
- Institute for Mobile Studies
- Ningbo Centre for New Structural Economics
- Nottingham China Health Institute
- Zhejiang Provincial Branding Academy
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