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, mentors and team members.Ma▓o Donghui, executive director of x-Lab, sees technology talent and scientific breakthroughs in abundance at Tsinghua. But many stude▓nts tend to focus only on their research discipline and hav▓e a narrow base of knowledge, Mao says, and ▓it's necessary to nurture awareness o▓f how technology relates to innovation and the potentia▓l for entrepreneurship."Some researc

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