Science, technology and innovation vouchers to strengthen the results transformation chain

In the area of technology transfer and technology consulting, the first user was recently born by entrusting the management to a third party organization

  The first user of Shanghai's technology transfer and technology consulting innovation voucher was born recently. A listed company that manufactures pharmaceutical intermediates has signed a contract with Shanghai Enterprise Technology Co. to design a new drug development process control system. This year, the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission piloted the first issuance of technology innovation vouchers in the fields of technology transfer and technology consulting services, establishing a pool of funds and entrusting the operation and management of a third-party organization, the National Technology Transfer Eastern Center, with the aim of strengthening the technology achievement transformation chain and guiding enterprises to use external intellectual resources to enhance their innovation capabilities.
  According to the person in charge of the Innovation Service Department of the Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the science and technology innovation vouchers issued in Shanghai this year, in addition to the original services used to subsidize the purchase of scientific instruments by enterprises, are mainly aimed at technology transfer and science and technology consulting services, covering the whole chain of transfer of scientific and technological achievements, including technical personnel training, technology strategic planning, technology search, technology assessment and intellectual property rights analysis, science and technology strategic research, competition, and so on. We have eight categories, including intelligence analysis, management consulting, and engineering consulting, and hope to promote open innovation from the "soft power" of the company.
  Unlike the previous innovation voucher subsidies, the Municipal Science and Technology Commission (MSTC), drawing on the practices of governments in developed countries, tried to establish a pool of funds and entrusted a third-party agency to operate and manage it, with no need to go through the administrative process in the form of planned projects for each redemption, and government departments only doing the record keeping to improve the flexibility and convenience of policy tools. Yan Mingfeng, CEO of the Eastern National Technology Transfer Center, told reporters that as a third-party organization, the Center has established the Shanghai Science and Technology Intermediary Service Platform (www.kjzjfw.com), which has 56 science and technology intermediary service agencies in its database, and has released their services to enterprises in the city; 16 cooperative projects are going through the process, and are expected to be signed and use the innovation. Vouchers.
  At the end of March, the first project using this type of innovation voucher was announced. A pharmaceutical company listed on the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) signed a contract with Amgen Technology (AMT), a company listed on the New Third Board, to start a "new drug R&D process reengineering" project. The consulting fee of more than 200,000 yuan, in accordance with the innovation voucher subsidy ratio of no more than 50%, the maximum subsidy of 300,000 yuan, the project received 100,000 yuan worth of innovation vouchers, paid by the pharmaceutical company to Entergyuan Technology. Qian Cheng, assistant to the president of Enterprise Source Technology, said that the company they serve mainly produces drug intermediates, "the new drug development cycle is long, high risk and unclear purpose, so the process management is very difficult to standardize." Enterprise Source will develop a research and development process management system for the client to standardize as much as possible, sort out and optimize the process, and design a performance appraisal model for the R&D staff. Upon completion of this management consulting project, Enterprise Source will be able to cash in $100,000 with an innovation voucher to the Eastern Center.
  Yan said that in order to guide technology transfer service providers to compete in an orderly manner and enhance the efficiency of using funds, the Eastern Center has established a whole process management system for screening organizations, matching projects and controlling funds, which will be publicized to accept social supervision of the selected organizations, projects to be contracted and funds disbursement; and also introduced an expert evaluation mechanism. In order to achieve the long-term goal of improving the capacity of Shanghai's technology intermediary services, the Eastern Center is working with various service providers to conduct standardized research on relevant service products, so as to promote more excellent and high-quality service products to the city's technology-based SMEs and enhance their core competitiveness. 

(Source: Liberation Daily)
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