This year, Shanghai has made great progress in promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. In yesterday's class "leading cadres to promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements seminar", the reporter learned that in order to get through the "last mile", the city's relevant departments have repeatedly coordinated deliberations to remove the "promotion of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into a series of obstacles to the landing of the law, and will The establishment of a deliberative coordinating body to promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. In the area of "filling in the gaps", the municipal science and technology departments are setting up a public service platform for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, to be taken over by the Eastern National Technology Transfer Centre, to bridge and pave the way for the laboratory results of universities and institutes to enter the industrialization stage.

　　Coordination of deliberations ahead of new policies

　　The person in charge of the Municipal Science and Technology Commission's Body Transformation Regulation Division introduced that from the end of last year to June this year, the Municipal Science and Technology Party Committee and the Municipal Science and Technology Commission took the lead in undertaking a research project on the promotion of the transfer of scientific and technological achievements and found a series of restrictive issues. For example, the 2015 revision of the Law on Promoting the Transfer of Scientific and Technological Achievements stipulates that state-established research and development institutions and universities can independently decide to transfer, license or invest for a price for the scientific and technological achievements they hold. The document issued by the Ministry of Education in 2005 does not allow colleges and universities to act directly as investment subjects, and must rely on college asset operation companies to make investments.

　　How do you handle this thorny issue? In January this year, the Municipal Science and Technology Commission invited the Municipal Education Commission, the Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce, the Municipal Taxation Bureau, Yangpu District Market Supervision Bureau, the relevant departments of the Shanghai Institute of Technology to attend the meeting, to Shanghai Polytechnic's THz technology transfer case as a "model project", together to discuss "how to go this road. The THz technology will be used as an investment." After discussion, the heads of departments reached a consensus that SUSTech could directly invest the results of terahertz technology for a price.

　　In fact, this move is ahead of the new policy. In August this year, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology issued the Opinions on Strengthening the Transfer and Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements in Higher Education Institutions, which stipulates that colleges and universities can independently decide to transfer, license or invest in the scientific and technological achievements they hold.

　　Through deliberation and coordination, experts from the Municipal Science and Technology Commission found that the autonomy granted to universities and institutes by the Law on the Promotion of the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements is not clear enough, and it is easy to cause different understanding in practice. Therefore, in the drafting of the "Shanghai Regulations to Promote the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements (Draft)", the scope of the autonomy of the transformation of units to further refine and clarify: First, the unit of scientific and technological achievements of disposal autonomy, except involving state secrets, national security, without the approval of administrative organs or the record. Second, the unit enjoys autonomy in the distribution of rewards for the transformation of earnings, and may stipulate or agree on the specific manner, amount and time limit of rewards and remuneration, and implement the rewards programme independently.

　　It is understood that the city will set up to promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements deliberative coordinating body, responsible for research and coordination of scientific and technological achievements in the transformation of major issues, the organization of relevant departments to formulate and implement the milestones and the work measures. The deliberative coordinating body office to be located in the city's science and technology department.

　　Issuance of a "seed fund" to assist conversion

　　At the seminar, "make up the short board of scientific and technological achievements transformation service" is also a hot topic. Yan Mingfeng, CEO of the Eastern National Technology Transfer Center, said that the mission of the public service platform for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements is to "make the world free of scientific and technological achievements that are difficult to transform".

　　To this end, the Eastern Center, under the guidance of the Municipal Science and Technology Commission, studies the framework of the platform and seeks to integrate various domestic and foreign technology intermediary service resources and technology financial resources to serve the transformation needs of colleges and universities from information, transactions, incubation, funding and other aspects and at multiple levels. In order to support the growth of science and technology intermediary service agencies, the Eastern Center, commissioned by the Municipal Science and Technology Commission this year, has issued more than 6 million yuan worth of technology transfer, science and technology consulting innovation vouchers. After signing a contract with a technology intermediary service provider, an enterprise can apply to the East Center for an innovation voucher. Upon completion of the project, the technology intermediary service provider can redeem the vouchers.

　　The transformation of scientific and technological achievements is also inseparable from capital. Yan revealed that the Eastern Center will soon with university experts, technology intermediaries, testing agencies, fund management companies, listed companies jointly issued 20 million yuan scale "new materials seed fund" to guide the social capital to help institutions of higher education in the transformation of new materials results. In the future, they will also issue other seed funds to promote colleges and universities in various fields of the results into real productivity.

　　Vice Mayor Zhou Bo made opening mobilization speech and scientific and technological achievements transformation theme report. (Reporter Yu Taoran)

(Source: Liberation Daily)