Leading Science and Technology Personnel to Enter the Main Battlefield of the Social Economy -- Overview of Shanghai's Experience in Implementing CSTA's Innovation-Driven Boost Project

 To serve the construction of the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center and the work of "mass entrepreneurship and innovation", the CAST, as a mass organization, with its unique advantage of "cross-agency and large integration", has opened up another path for scientific and technological workers to enter the main battlefield of the economy and society. This path is the innovation-driven booster project implemented by the China Association for Science and Technology since 2014.
 
  "Districts and counties have needs, societies have resources, and CASA has responsibilities", Shanghai's booster project focuses on regional science and technology innovation needs, taking the society's science and technology services as a lead, relying on the advantageous resources of the CASA system, and carrying out a series of innovative services such as think tank consulting, club-enterprise cooperation, talent cultivation, academician workstations, information platforms, etc., strongly promoting the Transformation of scientific and technological achievements and regional industrial innovation.
 
  At the recent meeting to promote the construction of Yangpu District's CSTA innovation-driven booster project demonstration area, Song Jun, a member of the CSTA party group, head of the academic department of the Society and director of the Enterprise Work Office, said that Shanghai's booster project has set an example for the whole country and looked forward to Yangpu District's creation of booster project 2.0 upgrade.
 
  Yangpu's gorgeous turnaround
 
  Yangpu District, a former old industrial zone once faced the dilemma of industrial disappearance or transfer. However, relying on the inherent advantage of the concentration of universities and strongly promoting mass entrepreneurship and innovation, Yangpu District has quickly got rid of the predicament, and is speeding on the road of innovation and transformation development. At the end of July 2016, Yangpu District got a "bold, brave and try" award for its innovative pilot city construction, the construction of Shanghai Science and Technology Center bearing area, and the construction of national "double innovation" demonstration zone. "The license - CASA's Demonstration Zone for Innovation Drive Enabling Project.
 
  The demonstration zone has received full support from the China Association for Science and Technology, Shanghai Association for Science and Technology, as well as Yangpu District Party Committee and District Government. Shanghai Jingwei Architectural Planning and Design Institute and Shanghai Institute of Architecture to host the "Yangpu District Academician Expert Workstation Summary Communication Meeting", the architectural field as a starting point to seek technological breakthroughs innovative transformation; Tongji Science and Technology Park to host the "Shanghai Academician Expert Workstation to build the declaration training "The project was organized by the National University Science and Technology Park of Shanghai Institute of Technology (SUSTech) to answer the questions of enterprises preparing to set up their stations; the activity of "nine representatives of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology in Shanghai entered the park" was organized by the National University Science and Technology Park of SUSTech to give advice on the development of the science and technology park....... Technology and talent resources are fully gathered through the demonstration zone, and last year alone, 10 projects with the theme of dual-creativity landed in Yangpu without any obstacles, covering all Yangpu Science and Technology Parks, including government and enterprises, high-end talents and young talents. By the end of last year, Yangpu District had collected 25 demands for regional dual-creative activities, 176 script-related dual-creative activities, 170 enterprises on the platform of science and technology information promotion, and 8 new workstations for academician experts.
 
  This year, the Yangpu Demonstration Zone is making even stronger moves to not only bring Shanghai into focus, but also to attract national attention. At the propulsion meeting, the Chinese Association for Science and Technology Society Service Center and the National Technology Transfer Eastern Center located in Yangpu Bay Valley Science Park signed the "Strategic Cooperation Agreement on Innovation-Driven Boosting Engineering Science and Technology Achievement Transformation", the Shanghai Yangpu Service Station of the China Society of Military Engineering and the Optical Technology Verification and Redevelopment Laboratory were officially inaugurated, and the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Society, Shanghai Biological Engineering Society, Shanghai Mechanical Engineering Society, Shanghai Ship and The Ocean Engineering Society and the Eastern National Technology Transfer Center have started cooperation on scientific and technological achievement projects in strategic and emerging industries such as biomedicine, advanced manufacturing and ocean engineering; Yangpu District Association for Science and Technology, together with other national societies such as the China High Technology Industrialization Research Institute and relevant scientific research institutions and enterprises in Yangpu District, jointly initiated the "Eastern Scientific and Technological Achievement Transfer Service Alliance". ", sharing various resources for science and technology projects and conversion services.
 
  In this regard, Song Jun said that the innovation-driven booster project of CAST should serve the central work of Shanghai, and Yangpu District should build a booster project demonstration area with national demonstration effect and global influence. The work of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology has always been a national banner, to mobilize the enthusiasm of science and technology workers, in Yangpu to explore new channels and new models for science and technology workers to enter the main battlefield of the economy and society. How to further break through the bottleneck in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, solve the landing problem of equity and other scientific and technological incentive policies, and enhance the social service capacity of the Association is the direction of further exploration of the booster project, and Yangpu District can take the lead in exploring Version 2.0 of the booster project.
 
  Focus on the main battlefield of the construction of the CRE Center
 
  In Shanghai, in addition to Yangpu District, Jing'an District, Jinshan District and Fengxian District have successfully declared to be the CASA booster project demonstration zone, and Qingpu District has carried out the collection of innovation demand for booster projects.
 
  In addition, 40 municipal societies have taken the initiative to dovetail with various innovation needs proposed by regions and enterprises as support units for booster projects. The Shanghai Association for Science and Technology, through the "government-led, science and technology association-led, enterprise-led, and society-led" approach, has built a platform and collaborated to promote the project, allowing scientific and technical workers to "take the lead" in serving scientific and technological innovation and economic and social development.
 
  In accordance with the regional innovation needs, the Association of Science and Technology of Yangpu District has organized a number of joint activities with the Association of Science and Technology of Yangpu District, Jing'an District, Jinshan District, Fengxian District, and dozens of enterprises or parks in the district for cooperation and negotiation. Focusing on the construction of the demonstration base of dual-venture, Yangpu District has been creating an environment for innovation and entrepreneurship through conferences, exhibitions and competitions such as "Create a Sound China" and "Dual-venture Activity Week". Focusing on the basic software, multimedia technology, creative design and other industries, it organizes the Municipal Computer Society, the Municipal Film and Television Technology Society, the Municipal Architectural Society, etc., to help promote the innovative development of industries in Jing'an District by carrying out scientific and technological evaluation projects, compiling industrial development reports, holding academic forums and building creative spaces.
 
  Focusing on fine chemicals, new materials, robotics and other industrial fields, the organization of the City Ship and Ocean Engineering Society, the City Chemical Engineering Society, the City Textile Engineering Society, the City Artificial Intelligence Society, the construction of academician expert workstations, the introduction of national academician expert team and other forms, for Jinshan District key enterprises and industrial parks to provide professional technical support.
 
  Focusing on advanced manufacturing, smart grid and other industrial areas, the organization of the City Science Research Society, the City Standardization Association, the City Electrical Engineering Society, the City Nuclear Society, the City Mechanical Engineering Society, the City Institute of Metals, and other key enterprises in Fengxian District to carry out docking cooperation, from investment and financing, science and technology policy, standard-setting, technology development, the transformation of results, to help Fengxian District key enterprises of scientific and technological innovation.
 
  In this regard, Yang Jianrong, secretary of the Party group and vice chairman of the City Association of Science and Technology, pointed out that the promotion of the meeting is to thoroughly implement the "China Association for Science and Technology to help the implementation of the project, to serve the construction of an important bearing area of the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center" to make the exploration and practice. "The first is to focus on the target, implement the construction of the demonstration zone as a strategic task, and make characteristics, brands and effects; the second is to promote the project in a solid way, and organize and mobilize municipal academic associations and overseas science and technology associations to participate in the project, and organize and mobilize relevant science and technology workers in Shanghai to participate together. , making it possible for more than 10 million scientific and technical information from CSTA to serve the work of the Yangpu Demonstration Zone. (Author: Geng Ting)
(Source: Shanghai Science and Technology News)
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