We should give better play to the role of colleges and universities in accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productive forces

On March 20, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized when presiding over a symposium on promoting the rise of the central region in the new era: "Strengthen the main position of enterprise innovation, build an innovation consortium with close cooperation between upstream and downstream, promote the integration and innovation of industry, education and research, and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productivity." "As the first productive force of science and technology, the first resource of talents, and the first driving force of innovation, colleges and universities are in the upstream of the innovation consortium and are the backbone of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.

Explore innovative paths for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements

The transformation of scientific and technological achievements is an important way to lead industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation and actively cultivate and develop new quality productive forces. For a long time, the low conversion rate of scientific and technological achievements and the lack of smooth transformation process are the main reasons for the poor connection and insufficient integration of the innovation chain industrial chain. As an important output of scientific and technological achievements, colleges and universities should take the initiative to blaze new trails, and make concerted efforts to cultivate innovation ecology, widely distribute regional fulcrums, build transformation platforms, and strengthen policy support, so as to break through the blockages in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productivity.

Cultivating an innovation ecosystem. Universities have the advantages of scientific research achievements and high-quality talents, and the construction of a university innovation zone with universities as the regional innovation center can promote the high-density and high-intensity gathering and docking of innovative elements such as scientific and technological achievements, high-end talents, and industrial needs in the innovation zone, so as to effectively improve the efficiency of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. The Huan University Innovation Zone is the first choice for the transformation of organized scientific and technological achievements, and is the radiation source of regional innovation and development. Colleges and universities should give full play to the role of innovation "chain master", closely connect with the local government, widely contact relevant enterprises, deepen the coordination of schools, local enterprises, build a high-level innovation zone around colleges and universities, and focus on cultivating innovation ecology to promote new quality productivity.

Widely distributed regional fulcrum. Colleges and universities should extensively lay out the fulcrum of serving regional development, and build a pattern of transformation of scientific and technological achievements of "scene traction, project drive, talent gathering, and platform support". Lay out the integration base of industry and education, promote the training of school-enterprise joint talents, help students grow into suitable talents for new quality productivity, promote the precise transformation of scientific and technological achievements in colleges and universities, and promote the iterative upgrading of enterprise technology. Lay out the science and education integration base, and carry out joint declaration of major scientific research projects with regional scientific research institutes, collaborative scientific research and joint construction of national experimental platforms, so as to forge scientific research backbones for the development of new quality productivity. The construction of the laboratory in the area, focusing on the key tasks of regional construction and the urgent needs of society, so that the scientific research strength of colleges and universities can go out of the campus and take root at the grassroots level, and nourish the scientific and technological achievements of colleges and universities with the most vivid situation, the most real data and the most sincere wishes of the grassroots level.

Build a conversion platform. In order to promote scientific and technological achievements from the "shelf" to the "shelf", colleges and universities should take the initiative to build a platform for the transformation of achievements, hold activities such as the promotion conference for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, open their own patent reservoirs, invite the government and enterprises to enter the campus to release policies and technical research lists, select suitable scientific and technological achievements, and break the dilemma of "the fragrance of wine is also afraid of deep alleys" in scientific and technological achievements in colleges and universities. Hold a never-ending science and technology promotion meeting, regularly hold science and technology promotion meetings, develop cloud science and technology promotion meetings, promote better integration of online and offline, and constantly improve the mechanism of "colleges and universities set up a stage, science and technology singing, enterprise subjects, and accelerate transformation".

Strengthen policy support. Breaking down institutional and institutional barriers is the only way for the smooth transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Colleges and universities should build a policy system that conforms to the objective law of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and form a good policy incentive environment. Explore the transformation path of scientific and technological achievements of "empowerment first and then transformation", and build a model of "empowerment + transfer + agreed income" to stimulate the enthusiasm of scientific researchers. Strengthen policy linkage, and reasonably link the evaluation of professional titles, job appointments, talent evaluation, performance appraisal and other links with the effectiveness of scientific research personnel in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, so as to stimulate the "driving force" of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.

Strengthen scientific research support for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Scientific and technological innovation can give birth to new industries, new models and new kinetic energy, and is the core element of the development of new quality productivity. "Colleges and universities should continue to enhance the source of innovation, focus on building comparative advantages, strengthen organized scientific research, strengthen scientific research support for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and inject strong impetus into promoting high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance.

Enhance the source of innovation. Colleges and universities should give full play to the role of the main force of basic research, base themselves on the frontier of science, carry out original innovation research "from 0 to 1", produce a number of basic research results with international standards, break through the bottlenecks and constraints of basic principles, basic software and hardware, basic materials, etc., and consolidate the basic support with independent intellectual property rights for the construction of world-leading industrial clusters. Strengthen application-oriented basic research, explore the underlying basic scientific problems of super projects, major application scenarios, and key core technologies, build application-oriented basic research forces in a market-oriented manner, promote the mainland's new industrialization to cope with challenges, break through bottlenecks, and "ignite" a strong engine for industrial acceleration and upgrading with scientific and technological innovation.

Cohesion to create comparative advantages. Promote the precise alignment of disciplines with industrial needs, build a characteristic discipline array of "first-class disciplines leading, peak disciplines, and cross-supporting basic and characteristic disciplines", and cultivate the fertile soil for scientific and technological achievements to "blossom in multiple places". Focus on emerging industries and future industries, make forward-looking layouts, scientifically plan key supporting disciplines, and play a good "first move" in discipline layout in order to promote disruptive technological innovation and cross-integration of cutting-edge technologies, seize the commanding heights of emerging industries and future industrial development. Focus on regional traditional industries, optimize the allocation of discipline resources, and make scientific and technological achievements smooth and accurate in the highly appropriate relationship between disciplines and industries, so that industries can be connected steadily and used well.

Strengthen organized scientific research. We should give full play to the advantages of concentrating forces to do great things, reverse the situation of "sanding" in tackling key problems in scientific research, and establish a new organizational model for scientific research that is suited to the development of new quality productive forces. Deepen the reform of the scientific and technological innovation system and mechanism, and strive to solve the problems such as the dislocation of the connection between the supply side and the demand side of scientific research, the difficulty of breaking down the barriers to the formation of interdisciplinary scientific research teams, and the imperfect evaluation and incentive mechanism. Lay out the innovation chain around the industrial chain, improve the demand-oriented and problem-oriented scientific research project formation mechanism, sort out the list of industrial demand, school supply, platform team, quality and efficiency, school-enterprise cooperation, etc., and guide scientific researchers to condense scientific research tasks from industrial needs, so that organized scientific research can be "accurately arranged" and scientific and technological achievements can be "accurately generated". We will continue to explore the organizational model of scientific research, implement the "unveiling of the leader" and "horse racing system", so that the new quality productivity can be accelerated in the innovative atmosphere of "you chase me".

Provide talent guarantee for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements

Talent is the decisive factor in the development of new quality productivity. Colleges and universities should focus on building a team of high-level scientific and technological talents, cultivating top-notch innovative talents, and strengthening the construction of professional talent teams for the transformation of achievements, so as to provide talent guarantee for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.

Build a team of high-level scientific and technological talents. Improve the system of introduction and education of scientific and technological talents, establish a mechanism for the introduction and education of leading talents in the face of national strategies and regional development needs and cutting-edge disciplines; for emerging industries and future industries, lay out the positions of "unveiling the leader" and accurately introduce and cultivate talents; improve the full-chain service system of "citation, education and retention" of talents, establish a "talent meeting room", set up "talent introduction ambassadors", and stimulate the vitality of "attracting talents with talents". Improve the evaluation system of scientific and technological talents, guided by differentiated evaluation, establish a hierarchical classification evaluation system for scientific and technological talents covering elements such as morality, knowledge, ability, and contribution, and suitable for different ages and disciplines, and strive to solve the problem of "measuring to the end with a ruler", so that more scientific and technological talents can "emerge, retain, and use well", form a vivid situation of "two-way running" between school construction and talent contribution, and build the school into a "strong magnetic field" where talents gather. Focus on supporting young scientific and technological talents to take the lead and play the leading role, allocate resources to young scientific and technological talents who really want to do things and can do things, and help them get things done; improve the security system, so that young scientific and technological talents can live and work with peace of mind during the golden period of scientific research and the high-yield period of achievements.

Cultivating top-notch innovative talents. Optimize the layout of disciplines and degree authorization points, build a number of disciplines and majors that adapt to new technologies, new industries, new formats, and new models, forward-looking layout of emerging interdisciplinary degree points, improve the degree point governance system, and enhance the core competitiveness of disciplines with the connotation of degree points. Promote the reform of the undergraduate, master's and doctoral training mode, establish a supporting curriculum system and student selection system that are vertically promoted and horizontally expanded, and cultivate an assessment system for key links. Strengthen the integration of industry and education, science and education, closely follow the needs of industrial talents, dynamically optimize the training system, deepen school-enterprise collaborative education, strengthen the precise supply of talents, promote the convergence of all-round scientific and technological innovation resources to the whole chain of talent training system, and accelerate the development of doctoral degree graduate education guided by national strategies and regional development needs, so as to inject high-quality source of living water into the development of new quality productivity.

Strengthen the construction of a team of professionals for the transformation of achievements. We should give full play to the advantages of educating people, systematically train technical managers who are both skilled in technology and understand economics and management, know both policies and laws, and are good at market and transformation; deepen the comprehensive reform of university science and technology parks, and establish and improve the full-cycle docking and full-chain service system from science and technology entrepreneurs to science and technology entrepreneurs to make the "last mile" of transformation of scientific and technological achievements into new quality productivity smoother.

(The author is Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing University of Technology)