Original title: Promote the deep integration of production, education and research to accelerate the development of new quality productivity
In September 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed "new quality productivity" for the first time during his inspection and investigation in Heilongjiang. In January 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the 11th collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee: "Scientific and technological innovation can give birth to new industries, new models and new kinetic energy, and is the core element of developing new quality productivity." "The new quality of productivity is the quality of advanced productivity that plays a leading role in innovation, gets rid of the traditional economic growth mode and productivity development path, has the characteristics of high technology, high efficiency and high quality, and conforms to the new development concept. The new quality productivity is a contemporary advanced productivity born by the revolutionary breakthrough of technology, the innovative allocation of production factors, and the deep transformation and upgrading of industries. Accelerating the development of new quality productivity is the internal requirement and important focus of promoting high-quality development, and we must continue to do a good job in innovation with the deep integration of industry, education and research, especially original and disruptive scientific and technological innovation, accelerate the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance, and do a good job in tackling key core technologies, so that original and disruptive scientific and technological innovation achievements can emerge one after another, and cultivate new momentum for the development of new quality productivity.
Scientific and technological progress is an important force for promoting the development of productive forces, and the scientific and technological revolution and the industrial revolution are the most important factors for promoting the progress of productive forces. It is an important path to accelerate the cultivation and development of new quality productivity by continuing to promote the integration and innovation of industry, education and research, promoting the establishment of a technological innovation system with enterprises as the main body, market-oriented, and deep integration of industry, education and research, and reforming the transformation mechanism of scientific and technological achievements through the integration and innovation of various subjects, and promoting the improvement of industrial basic capabilities and industrial chain modernization capabilities.
First of all, through the collaborative innovation of industry, university and research, the intensity of technology diffusion will be improved, and the process of new technologies from R&D to application will be accelerated. Knowledge and technology are the primary resources of the collaborative innovation system, and the scarcity of resources determines that joint research and development, technology purchase, and patent exchange are the main paths for the diffusion of new technologies. To this end, it is necessary to enhance the ability of innovation to absorb and diffuse technology. First, enterprises should enhance their technology absorption capacity, increase investment in scientific research funds and the introduction and training of scientific research personnel, reduce the technological potential gap between them and academic and research institutions, and enhance their ability to absorb new technologies from academic and research institutions. To enhance the depth and breadth of cooperation with academic and research institutions, the backbone enterprises of the industry should cooperate with academic and research institutions to jointly build innovation carriers such as technological innovation centers, key laboratories, and new R&D institutions, so as to promote collaborative innovation of industry, university and research. Second, academic and research institutions should carry out evaluation reforms, take the ability to transform scientific and technological achievements as an important indicator of evaluation, break the "only SCI, only quantity, only citation" orientation to measure scientific research achievements, encourage papers to be published in domestic journals first, not simply evaluate the level of projects based on funding sources and funding sizes, strengthen the output and quality of scientific research achievements and make substantial contributions to solving major national scientific and technological problems and major engineering problems, and encourage scientific research personnel to grow and become talents in combination with major national needs. The third is to strengthen the integration of tacit knowledge and explicit technology. Generally, there is an obvious tendency for explicit technological achievements such as invention patents and registration results to be concentrated in enterprises or R&D institutions with market advantages, and scientific and technological resources with strong implicit characteristics are mainly concentrated in universities with strong basic research capabilities. Scientific research institutes or R&D-intensive enterprises, therefore, should strengthen cooperative R&D in the field of original technology, build a stable channel for technology diffusion, and promote the reverse interaction between enterprises and the market, and promote the accumulation of basic knowledge resources to the front end of R&D.
Secondly, through the collaborative innovation of industry, university and research, the collaborative innovation network will be smoothed and the advanced industrial foundation will be cultivated. The new quality productivity relies on new technology and is based on new industries. Therefore, it is necessary to promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, develop strategic emerging industries, and lay out future industries in advance. The first is to enhance the integration of strategic emerging industries and advantageous technologies. In terms of the layout of strategic emerging industries, it is necessary to take the initiative to align with the advantageous scientific research directions of high-level universities and research institutes, make full use of technology to empower industries, and promote the deep integration of innovation chain and industrial chain. Second, through the adjustment of the industrial structure, we will further optimize the structure of the innovation network and gradually develop strategic emerging industries into leading and pillar industries. High-tech enterprises or institutions should increase their investment in research and development in the primary and tertiary industries. It is necessary to encourage R&D institutions to actively participate in the development of emerging industries and improve the ecological efficiency of industries; on the basis of consolidating and enhancing the advantages of biomedicine, electronic information, and other industries, it is necessary to introduce high-tech enterprises or institutions engaged in R&D activities such as environmental protection technology and green production technology development. The third is to integrate scientific and technological resources and human resources in different fields and geospatial areas. It is necessary to establish an information exchange network, close ties between the government and research and development institutions, high-tech enterprises, colleges and universities, and scientific research institutes, promote technical cooperation in key fields, and especially speed up the transformation and application of major scientific and technological awards in colleges and universities, so as to improve the ability to serve the social economy. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of scientific and technological innovation platforms such as large science and technology markets and engineering technology centers, give full play to the fission effect of innovation, and promote industrial upgrading. Fourth, the government should lead affiliated enterprises, especially domestic enterprises, to form R&D alliances and market alliances with foreign-funded R&D institutions that occupy technological heights, strengthen the strength of the alliance, and further enrich the value chain of related products or technologies in the park while making the industrial park bigger and stronger, so as to create a higher quality and more dynamic innovation ecosystem.
Finally, through collaborative innovation between industry, academia and research, we should improve the system and mechanism to promote the high-quality development of the digital economy. The development of the digital economy is of great significance, and it is a strategic choice to grasp the new opportunities of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. The digital economy is a series of economic activities in which the digitization of information and knowledge is the key factor of production, the modern information network is an important carrier, and the effective use of information and communication technology is used to improve efficiency and optimize the economic structure. To develop the digital economy, the first is to promote the flow of scientific and technological innovation resources. It is necessary to better promote the flow of scientific and technological innovation resources in various regions, speed up the establishment of a large national science and technology market, fully release the potential of innovation, and boost regional economic development. It is necessary to speed up the construction of an integrated trading platform for scientific and technological elements, guide talents, technologies and other resources to break through geographical space restrictions and flow freely in various regions; build collaborative innovation platforms around key technical fields and key technical issues; strengthen policy coordination and linkage, and improve policy efficiency. The second is to run through the chain of transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Open up the chain of basic research, application development, achievement transfer and industrialization. Promote major scientific and technological innovations and breakthroughs in key technologies to transform them into advanced productive forces. Accelerate the reform of the scientific research system and mechanism, and make bold attempts in the areas of scientific research operation guarantee, fund raising and use, performance evaluation, achievement transformation, and income disposal. The third is to strengthen the construction of science and technology intermediary service organizations such as pilot test platforms, science and technology business incubators, and maker spaces, accelerate the construction of networks and databases, promote the digital transformation of enterprises, and provide a good public service platform for enterprise technological innovation.
Shaanxi has abundant resources of universities and scientific research institutes, in recent years, the intensity of R&D investment, the amount of regional contracts for technology market technology output, the proportion of cooperation between enterprises and university research institutes, and the number of papers jointly published by enterprises and university research institutes are steadily advancing. Xi'an has been approved to build a comprehensive science center and a science and technology innovation center, becoming a "dual-center" city. All these have laid a solid foundation for scientific and technological and industrial innovation in cultivating and developing new quality productive forces. In the next step, we should further deepen the collaborative innovation of industry, university and research, promote the deep integration of industry, university and research, promote industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, build a modern industrial system, accelerate the formation of new quality productivity, promote high-quality development, and help the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
(Li Miao, Author's Affiliation: Northwestern Polytechnical University)
Source: Shaanxi Daily