Today (24th), the on-site meeting to promote the work of the Regional Center for National Technology Transfer (RNTT) was held in Shanghai Bay Valley Science Park. 11 RNTT directors made their first collective appearance and presentation. At the meeting, the Eastern National Technology Transfer Center initiated the establishment of the "China Technology Transfer Alliance", which received positive responses from the other 10 centers. The establishment of the alliance will form a national technology transfer backbone network and promote the flow of scientific and technological achievements, enterprise demand, professional personnel, transfer service experience and other factors in the transformation chain.

There are 11 national technology transfer regional centers, including the Transfer Strait Center, the National Technology Transfer Sunan Center, the National Technology Transfer Zhengzhou Center and the National Ocean Technology Transfer Center, forming a pattern of "2+n". The "2" refers to the National Technology Transfer Cluster in Zhongguancun, Beijing, and the National Technology Transfer South Center in Shenzhen; the first unit approved in the "n" is the National Technology Transfer East Center in Shanghai.

In order to lead the country to realize a diversified, large-scale and cross-regional technology transfer pattern and further enhance enterprises' independent innovation capacity, 11 National Regional Centers for Technology Transfer have established the "China Technology Transfer Alliance" in the Upper Bay Valley Science Park, where the Eastern Center is located. "It is proposed that through an effective alliance mechanism, the consensus and synergy of the government, industry, finance, academia and all sectors of society can be consolidated to jointly cultivate new momentum for China's economic transformation and upgrading.

The Alliance's positioning is to break through existing boundaries and barriers, gather national innovation resources, and promote the cross-regional flow and seamless integration of talent, knowledge, technology, capital, services and other innovation factors. By means of joint market research and transformation, information and talent sharing, technology transfer and comprehensive services, international exchange and cooperation, the Alliance promotes cooperation between industry, universities and research institutes in various regions, promotes complementary advantages in the technology market, mutual benefit and win-win situation, stimulates the endogenous impetus for innovation-driven development, and fosters new economic growth points through collaborative innovation on the basis of mutual benefit and win-win situation.

Guo Junfeng, director of the Torch Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology's Technology Market Management Division, said that since last year, China's Law on the Promotion of the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements, Several Provisions on the Implementation of the Law on the Promotion of the Transfer of Scientific and Technological Achievements, and Action Plan to Promote the Transfer of Scientific and Technological Achievements have been introduced. Chen Hongkai, director of innovation service department of Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, said the Eastern Center is positioned as a "fourth-party platform" and has gathered 56 market-oriented and professional technology intermediary service agencies, making them the main force of technology transfer. In the future, the Eastern Centre will further pool national resources to promote the transformation of more scientific and technological achievements into real productivity.

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Source: Shanghai Watch