The ECNU Shanghai International School of Chief Technology Officer (hereinafter referred to as the“CTO School” ), founded under the leadership of Xuhong QIAN, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of the ECNU, is an entity teaching and research institution of the ECNU. The CTO School, committed to “realizing the social value of science and technology through the dual transformation of people and technology,” adheres to the core value of “innovation changes the world”, shapes the thinking, ability and pattern of technology and innovation management leaders and trains chief technology officers and future strategic entrepreneurs with a global vision and a sense of social mission.

The CTO School, in combination with Haifa Joint Translational Science and Technology Research Institute of ECNU，cooperated between China and Israel, as well as the (ECNU) Asia Europe Business School cooperated between China and France, jointly built the China-Israel-France Technology and Business Innovation Education Alliance, carried out the “Sci&Tech-Driven Business Discipline” and cross discipline construction, advocated the establishment of technology business and changed the traditional education of business, which has been endorsed and supported by experts and scholars from the Tsinghua University, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang University, Tongji University and other academic communities.

The CTO School, mainly based on the new engineering advantageous fields of the East China Normal University, such as ultra-limit manufacturing, AI and information technology, carries out talent cultivation and discipline construction of technology business for the three major industries - artificial intelligence, integrated circuit and biomedicine, as well as several strategic emerging industries. The CTO School has set up a bachelor degree in business administration program (Innovation and entrepreneurship or smart business direction), marketing master's degree program for high-tech companies (high-end brand management direction), engineering management professional master’s degree program (direction of chief technology officer) and executive education program (CTO career breakthrough class, focusing on medical health industry, intelligent manufacturing industry, etc.). The school has set a sub-discipline doctoral program of technology and innovation management (preparation), and established a “Sci&Tech-Driven Business Discipline" system and world-class CTO talent training system with the coordinated development of undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral programs, aiming to develop into a new internationally renowned technology business school integrating teaching education, scientific innovation research, technology transfer and achievement transformation, entrepreneurship service, government decision-making consultation, and other functions.