As the main body of scientific and technological innovation, enterprises are the main force to promote the development of new quality productive forces.
Interview|"Chinese Entrepreneur" reporter Li Yanyan Yao Yun
Tan Liping, Yan Junwen, Kong Yuexin
Text: "Chinese Entrepreneur" reporter Li Yanyan
Edited by Yao Yun
Header design|Wang Chao
Editor's note:
In September 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed "new quality productivity" during his inspection and investigation in Heilongjiang. The general secretary pointed out that the integration of scientific and technological innovation resources, leading the development of strategic emerging industries and future industries, and accelerating the formation of new quality productivity.
The new quality productivity is different from the traditional productivity, involving new fields and high technology content, and relying on innovation drive is the key.
From an economic point of view, the new quality of productivity represents a kind of leap in productivity. It is a productive force in which scientific and technological innovation plays a leading role, with high efficiency and high quality, which is different from the productivity development mode that relies on a large amount of resource input and highly consumes resources and energy, and is a productivity that has got rid of the traditional growth path and meets the requirements of high-quality development, and is a productivity that is more integrated and reflects the new connotation in the digital era.
"China Entrepreneur" visited and surveyed representatives of innovative enterprises around the world, and conducted in-depth discussions with experts and investment institutions on the dynamics, transformation process, upstream and downstream influence and collaboration of the industry, and how to increase efficiency, etc., and tried to present these new "productive forces" that are already changing.
"If you had Mount Everest in front of you, would you climb it from the north slope or from the south slope?"
At the end of the interview, Mi Lei, the founding partner of Zhongke Chuangxing, suddenly asked. The north slope is steeper, the south slope is gentler, and most people also walk from the south slope, "but after so many years, do you know that there are many people on the north slope, or the south slope?" ”
"Is it the slower side?"
"Yes." "Because they're all blocking the road." ”
The choice of the north and south slopes of Mount Everest is like Mi Lei's obsession - if you take the easy road, you will get more and more blocked.
Zhongke Chuangxing is an early-stage investment institution in the field of "hard technology". From photonic technology to aerospace, from autonomous driving to large models, from quantum computing to controllable nuclear fusion, Zhongke Chuangxing has been laying out in the field of cutting-edge science and technology. In the abstract, the five major areas of matter, energy, information, space, and life constitute the company's investment map.
Mi Lei, who was born in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, firmly believes that "hard technology" changes the world. As he said, those roads that are easy at the beginning may end up with no way out; But the difficult road is difficult at the beginning, but in the end there is no competition, and you can succeed if you persist. "I think that China's development of new quality productive forces and taking the road of innovation is to choose a difficult but correct path." Mi Lei said.
In the spring of 2024, "new quality productivity" has become a hot word.
What is New Productivity? General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that, in a nutshell, 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. It is born by the revolutionary breakthrough of technology, the innovative allocation of production factors, and the deep transformation and upgrading of the industry, with the basic connotation of laborers, labor materials, labor objects and their optimal combinations, and the substantial increase in total factor productivity as the core symbol, characterized by innovation, the key is high quality, and the essence is advanced productivity.
The proposal of new quality productivity not only means to promote industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, but also reflects the initiative to build new competitive advantages and win development with industrial upgrading. At the same time, to form a new quality of productive forces, we must rely on science and technology and innovation. The key to forming new quality productive forces lies in cultivating and forming new industries.
Enterprises that are crawling in the market are the main force in the development of new quality productivity. Behind it, a group of entrepreneurs at the forefront take the initiative to seek change, drive high-quality development with innovation, based on China and facing the world, focusing on the present and the future. Whether it is "from 0 to 1" originality, disruptive technological innovation, or stable, high-quality, large-scale industrial applications, every innovation breakthrough of enterprises is full of arduous exploration.
Go to the "new" and go far with the "quality". The development of new quality productivity is not only the magic weapon for the growth of enterprises, but also the proposition of the times. The "14th Five-Year Plan" and the outline of the long-term goals for 2035 propose to organize and implement future industry incubation and acceleration plans in the fields of cutting-edge technologies and industrial transformation such as brain-inspired intelligence, quantum information, gene technology, future networks, deep-sea aerospace development, hydrogen energy and energy storage, and plan to lay out a number of future industries.
Through interviews with typical enterprise representatives, investment institutions and industry experts, "Chinese Entrepreneur" tries to show the huge potential of new quality productivity in promoting the rapid development of Chinese enterprises, and describes their deep understanding and industrial practice of new quality productivity by telling their growth journey of daring to be the first, breaking down obstacles, and leading the industry.
"It's the right time": waves and change
Wang Guangxi, Vice President of Lenovo Group and Partner of Lenovo Venture Capital, has invested in cutting-edge technology fields such as AI (artificial intelligence), robotics, enterprise services, and cloud computing for many years. He touched a bottom-level changing water temperature very early on-
In less than two years, the revolutionary changes and associated reactions generated by the AI model have rapidly spread to thousands of industries, stirring the nerves of almost all practitioners. Since last year, new productivity has also been highlighted at the national level.
Of course, not every industrial segment can be included in the category of new quality productivity. "And the leapfrog development of AI will really rewrite many industries." Wang Guangxi said that he predicted that some industrial relations, productivity relations, and underlying logic in the past may undergo drastic changes as a result. From the perspective of technology and venture capital, it is the right time to propose new quality productivity at this point in time.
In the view of many scholars, the proposal of new quality productivity has a distinct background of the times, which is based on the cognition, adaptation and active guidance of development conditions and environmental changes at home and abroad. Especially from the perspective of domestic development needs, the mainland is at the intersection of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and both supply and demand are facing new challenges.
"Our country has always talked about innovation-driven development, and this path is very clear, and it is the only way to overcome the middle-income trap. China has now reached a per capita GDP of more than 10,000 US dollars, and how to move towards higher-end industries is to get rid of the extensive and low-quality growth model of the past. Mi Lei said. From this point of view, the new quality productive forces can be called a historical node of economic development.
Mi Lei noticed that some traditional growth methods in the past are no longer effective, especially in recent years, many traditional industries and traditional enterprises have encountered challenges and difficulties, and the original elements are difficult to drive growth, so it is necessary to create new technologies and new products, which is a big change in thinking.
In Wang Guangxi's view, whether it is the software level of the digital world or the hardware level of the physical world, the new quality of productivity will have a revolutionary impact. And, that's just the first layer. "Further down, it will be extended to some vertical industry applications." Looking around the country, after digitalization from scratch, to cloud computing and mobile Internet, productivity is almost a linear development of a 20-year cycle.
As a leading enterprise in the PC field, Lenovo Group, which was born in 1984, and the changes in its main business can be said to have completely experienced the changes in productivity. At the pledge meeting for the new fiscal year held not long ago, Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, announced that leading the transformation of artificial intelligence is the group's new mission in the next decade.
What makes Wang Guangxi very excited is that in the near future, AI will change and create hardware terminals in the physical world at many levels, and even rewrite the ultimate form of interaction. This is a leap forward in productivity that has not been available in the past two eras, "because it can really liberate the productive forces 'end-to-end' in the physical world and transform the production relations in the industrial chain in the past."
"Why are humanoid robots in the spotlight right now? Because as you can see, its ultimate state in the physical world may be a real embodied intelligence, and AI can become the core of this brain. Wang Guangxi said.
New progress of the CL-1 humanoid robot: step by step up the stairs, running back and forth. Source: Interviewee
Indeed, humanoid robots are becoming more and more human-like – not only can they go fast, but they can also run. According to the latest progress video of humanoid robots released by Progressives on April 11, in the company's laboratory, a robot with a shape and height close to a human is "going up the stairs", occasionally lifting its left and right feet to run alternately, the whole process is smooth and silky, almost reaching the same agility as humans.
Innovation "foundation": focus on the frontier and tackle the core
The key to focusing on the frontier, tackling the core, and developing new quality productivity lies in innovation. As the core driving force of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, AI is considered to be an important engine for the development of new quality productivity. From Midjourney mapping, to ChatGPT writing, to the recent release of Sora, the first Wensheng video model, all of a sudden, AI that constantly refreshes human cognition has entered life in various forms.
The AI world is full of imagination, and the "disruptive technology" in the field of new energy vehicles also has unlimited potential.
In Mi Lei's view, "new" is to create products that did not exist in the past to meet consumer needs and economic growth.
From today's large-scale model star company "Zhipu AI" to the battery recycling technology pioneer "Bocui Cycle", there are early investments by Zhongke Chuangxing. Focusing on a full set of solutions for the recycling of key battery materials, Bocui Recycling has realized the industrialization and scale of the whole process equipment from dismantling, sorting, extraction to material regeneration, and completed the development and application of the recycling process of hydrogen fuel cells, solid-state batteries and the short-process separation process of mineral resources such as laterite nickel ore.
The average response time for data loading is no more than 2 seconds, the average rendering rate is not less than 40FPS, and it can realize the deep integration of business data such as wide-area vector, image, DEM, oblique photography, high-precision road, BIM, and video of more than 2,000 square kilometers.
They are all cutting-edge science and technology people who "plan" in advance.
Lin Xiao, the founder of Bocui Cycle, is also a Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he is in a stage of renewing the industry from theory to practice. "We have found that many traditional industries have to do energy transition, which is often accompanied by business upgrades, so new quality productivity is also related to traditional enterprises. In the process of upgrading, new talents, new production technologies, new production lines, new raw materials, and new scenarios need to be directly related to these traditional industries. Lin Xiao, who felt the complexity and saw a farther destination, "In the end, it is all based on innovation to do green transformation, and the industry will also change from quantitative to qualitative, and the pace of this qualitative change will be very fast." ”
This year's "Government Work Report" proposes to actively cultivate emerging industries and future industries, and actively build new growth engines such as biomanufacturing, commercial aerospace, and low-altitude economy. Mi Lei believes that the core element of new quality productivity is scientific and technological innovation, especially original, transformative and disruptive scientific and technological breakthroughs, so as to lead and give birth to new industries, new formats and new business models, and form a new kinetic energy to promote high-quality economic and social development.
In the past 20 years, the success rate of drug research and development in the field of oncology has been less than 10%, and there are few marketers, not to mention the world's most cutting-edge and fiercely competitive immune cell therapy field. Among them, Legend Biotech, a Chinese innovative pharmaceutical company established in 2014, is an existence that cannot be ignored.
Legend Biotech is an industrialized production base of new anti-cancer drugs for precision immune cells. Source: Interviewee
In June 2017, Legend Biotech presented early clinical study data at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, with an overall response rate of 100%, which attracted global attention. At the end of the same year, Johnson & Johnson, a well-known multinational pharmaceutical company, entered into a strategic cooperation with Legend Biotech, announcing that they would jointly promote the clinical development and commercialization of Legend Biotech's first product, cilta-cel.
Scientific and technological innovation in the field of cellular immunotherapy has always attracted much attention. Wu Wu, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Greater China at Legend Biotech, believes that the development of new quality productivity can solve those unmet clinical needs, "Guided by the needs of patients, we creatively propose some methods to solve problems. We look forward to the hope that the future will bring to patients, not to live a few more days, but to be cured one day. ”
On the other hand, flying cars are also shining from "dreams" to "reality". Born in Chengdu, the local eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft) company "Wofei Changkong" is accelerating its development. In December 2023, its fully self-developed product AE200 airworthiness verification technology aircraft has completed its first flight under the witness of the Southwest Civil Aviation Administration. In the same month, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) announced the AE200-100 electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (EVL) type qualification project, which is the country's first manned eVTOL project for 5 to 6 passengers.
Source: Interviewee
As a new generation of revolutionary low-altitude aircraft, eVTOL integrates the flexibility of UAVs, the vertical take-off and landing capabilities of helicopters, and the speed and range advantages of fixed-wing aircraft.
From low altitude to high altitude, the development of commercial space has also made significant progress. In January this year, in the waters near Haiyang City, Shandong Province, the Gravity-1 Yao-1 commercial carrier rocket independently developed by the Oriental Space Company took off from the sea launch ship and successfully launched three satellites into the predetermined orbit, setting a new record for the world's largest solid launch vehicle and the largest private commercial launch vehicle in the mainland.
In China, tackling reusable rockets has also become one of the key tasks of commercial aerospace enterprises. A number of commercial aerospace companies are already investing in R&D. According to Blue Arrow Aerospace news, on April 15, Blue Arrow Aerospace "Suzaku III" reusable rocket vertical take-off and landing recovery test arrow completed the "10-kilometer flight" transformation and final assembly work, and will be fully transferred to the final final test and factory stage.
From strategic emerging industries to future industries, domestic quantum computers have become a new tool for nurturing new qualitative productivity in the future. As the only company in China with the ability to deliver real quantum computers, Origin Quantum is one of the few companies in the world with the ability to manufacture full-stack quantum computers.
China's third-generation autonomous superconducting quantum computer "Origin Wukong". Source: Interviewee
At the beginning of this year, China's third-generation independent superconducting quantum computer "Origin Wukong" developed by the team led by Guo Guoping, chief scientist of Origin Quantum, was officially put into operation, and the hardware, chips, operating systems, application software and other four aspects of the quantum computer are independent and controllable, and the localization rate has exceeded 80%, and the rest of the components have been self-developed and reserved, marking the basic chain of the mainland superconducting quantum computer industry chain.
Achievement transformation: integration and empowerment
In April, Legend Biotech's first CAR-T cell therapy product, cilta-cel, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Commission (EC) for the second-line treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. This is currently the world's first and only BCMA-targeted therapy approved for the second-line treatment of multiple myeloma.
"This means that the number of people who can benefit from treatment with cilta-cel is several times larger." Martial arts said. Commercialization of CAR-T therapies is not an easy task. Accessibility is greatly constrained due to factors such as large R&D investment, high production costs, limited production capacity, and limited range of indications. At present, the five CAR-T products that have been marketed in China are all priced at one million yuan, and have not yet been included in the national medical insurance.
Mi Lei, founding partner of Zhongke Chuangxing Photo: Deng Pan
If "from 0 to 1" represents the original breakthrough of scientific and technological innovation, "from 1 to 10" and "from 1 to 100" are the process of transformation of scientific and technological achievements and entering the business scene and market. From "bookshelves" to "shelves", strengthening the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation is also the key to transforming into new quality productivity. How to accelerate the integration of "science and technology + industry"? What are the difficulties and pain points in the process of integration?
The transformation of scientific and technological achievements is the "main business" of Zhongke Chuangxing. As Mi Lei said, "Early investment is an important part of this, a means. "In addition to investment, Zhongke Chuangxing has also done a lot of post-investment service work.
In October 2015, Zhongke Chuangxing participated in the establishment of Shaanxi Optoelectronics Pilot Institute Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Optoelectronics Pilot Institute"). Relying on the semiconductor chip R&D pilot platform and the special optoelectronics investment fund, the Optoelectronics Pilot Institute is committed to the introduction of entrepreneurial talents, venture capital, and technical services to create a world-class innovation ecosystem in the field of photonics.
"These efforts have surpassed the work of many pure financial investment institutions." Mi Lei said.
It is understood that the platform of the Optoelectronics Pilot Institute has cultivated and gathered nearly 100 photonics industry enterprises. Through the support of the platform, Chen Chen's team at Yale University developed the world's first semipolar gallium nitride substrate engineering product in only half a year; The Tang Jing quantum team established by Dr. Gong Ping after returning to China has realized the research and development of gallium arsenide VCSEL epitaxial wafers in only half a year, and some indicators have reached the level of the industry's leading enterprise IQE.
As an innovation platform, the Optoelectronics Pilot Institute has achieved an effective engineering connection between the laboratory and the mature factory. In Lenovo Ventures, there are also flexible production lines available for early-stage innovative enterprises to meet the needs of small-batch R&D innovation and product experiments.
Origin Quantum is also an investee company of Zhongke Chuangxing. "Origin Wukong" is equipped with China's first quantum computing measurement and control system. According to Kong Weicheng, a member of the R&D and manufacturing team of "Origin Wukong" and deputy director of the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center, "Origin Wukong" is matched with the third-generation quantum computing measurement and control system "Origin Tianji", which has truly implemented the batch automatic test of quantum chips for the first time in China, improving the operation efficiency of the whole machine by dozens of times.
The new quality productivity generated by disruptive technology and cutting-edge technological innovation is having an enabling effect on the development of more and more industries and industries.
"Wukong" series of quantum computers. Source: Interviewee
As of May 10, 2024, "Origin Wukong" has successfully completed more than 179,000 computing tasks for users in 120 countries and regions around the world, and the number of remote visits to "Wukong" has exceeded 8 million worldwide. This is the first time that China's independent quantum computer has been used by global users on a large scale, marking China's official entry into the era of quantum computing power.
At present, SmartMore has served more than 200 industry leaders around the world through its self-developed intelligent industrial platform, intelligent sensor products and intelligent integrated equipment. The company has also continuously expanded the extension of intelligent manufacturing, and independently developed a digital manufacturing management system based on the "intelligent manufacturing +" platform and digital intelligent solutions, covering application scenarios from production lines to factories.
Industrial Ecology: Collaboration and Interaction
Strategic emerging industries represented by new energy, new materials and high-end equipment are forging stronger industrial competitiveness.
At CATL's factory, a lithium-ion battery cell rolls off the assembly line every 1.7 seconds, and a battery module is equipped every 20 seconds. CATL is the world's largest manufacturer of power batteries. According to the financial report, in 2023, the company's revenue will be 400.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22%.
The numerous factories do not only belong to CATL, but also belong to the supporting enterprises in the industrial chain. According to the "Three-year Action Plan for the Cultivation and Upgrading of National Advanced Manufacturing Clusters of Power Batteries in Ningde City (2023-2025)" released last year, by 2025, there will be 100 enterprises above designated size in Ningde lithium battery industry cluster. From the current point of view, 60% of the production of power batteries can be matched nearby.
In June 2023, Origin Quantum and Shanghai Supercomputing Center jointly established the Yangtze River Delta Quantum Super Collaborative Innovation Center to promote the integration of quantum computing technology to serve the economic development of the Yangtze River Delta. In August 2023, Origin Quantum, together with four units, including Shanghai Supercomputing Center and National Supercomputing Zhengzhou Center, jointly built an advanced computing platform for quantum hyper-convergence to provide quantitative super-cloud convergence services. At present, Origin Quantum is continuing to promote the engineering and industrialization of quantum computers in China.
Since the mainland's first successful sea launch on June 5, 2019, Hai Duong has put a total of 57 satellites into scheduled orbits. With the sea launch as the traction, Haiyang focuses on providing integrated services for commercial rocket assembly, testing, delivery and launch, and aims to build an industrial cluster area for the whole industry chain, and strives to build a low-cost, high value-added commercial aerospace high-tech industrial cluster with the whole industry chain. The local government has introduced commercial rocket companies such as Shandong Long March Rocket, Oriental Space, and Galaxy Power to promote the formation of production capacity for core supporting industry projects.
Constantly promoting the synergy of the industrial chain, there is also Suzhou Industrial Park.
Suzhou Industrial Park is one of the areas with the highest concentration of talents in mainland China. Among them, Aggregate Data is a big data innovator. The aggregate data platform securely connects and uses data through APIs, empowers institutions, and unlocks the economic value of data. In addition, aggregate data helps enterprises and government agencies with digital transformation through corporate data governance solutions.
In 2009, because he saw the rise of the mobile Internet, Zuo Lei returned to China to start a business and set up aggregate data with his friends. Talking about why the company was located in Suzhou, he said that he was impressed by the entrepreneurial environment in Suzhou, and the company's start-up capital, rent-free office, and a series of support policies are more suitable for small business start-ups. After so many years, "all the preferential policies have been honored".
According to the Frost & Sullivan report, aggregated data is the largest comprehensive API data circulation service provider in China in terms of revenue in 2022, with a market share of 6.1%. According to the prospectus, the customers of aggregated data include Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, NetEase, Meituan, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom and other well-known enterprises, as well as many Internet companies, application developers and individual users.
Wang Guangxi did not expect that the seeds planted in the past decade based on cutting-edge technology and industrial trends would blossom and flourish in the future, and grow into "little giants" of innovation in subdivided fields.
Wang Guangxi, Vice President of Lenovo Group and Partner of Lenovo Venture Capital Source: Interviewee
For example, Titanium Technology, which was established in 2015. It has made great achievements in the field of elastic wave intelligent tactile perception technology, and has successfully achieved application breakthroughs in the consumer electronics and automotive electronics industries. Another example is Digital Dafang, which was established in 2003. It is a leading industrial software and industrial Internet company in China, which has been working in the field of domestic self-developed CAD and CAM for 30 years, and has now become an excellent brand of industrial software in mainland China.
Wang Guangxi said that the positioning of Lenovo Venture Capital is the technology watchtower of Lenovo Group. "A large part of our task is to discover the future growth point for the group, and take the lead in understanding, learning and layout." In addition, for the innovation flame born by Lenovo itself, Lenovo Venture Capital will also quickly incubate it, put it on the market, and grow together with the group's main business. "We've been doing this for seven or eight years." Wang Guangxi said that in general, Lenovo Venture Capital, as a CVC, will have some different perspectives and functions from many financial investment institutions, "While we make investments, we pay more attention to two-way empowerment with invested companies to create a win-win cooperation ecosystem." ”
"Star Plan" and "Bright Plan" are both action plans for the ecological construction of Lenovo Venture Capital. "Specifically, it is to export many of our capabilities, such as our management capabilities, intelligent manufacturing capabilities, and our ability to go overseas as a multinational enterprise." Wang Guangxi said that in recent times, the team has been busy with various preparatory work to help and lead a number of invested companies, especially robot companies, to "go to sea".
Efficiency: Innovative infrastructure
"Everyone is now enthusiastic about large models, and the focus is on algorithms. In fact, the foundation of the development of large models is energy, data, computing power, and algorithms. Everyone is very worried about this now, and they are competing to calculate and compete for power generation. Wang Guangxi said. In response to the huge energy consumption of large artificial intelligence models in the training process, Nvidia Jensen Huang also publicly mentioned: "The end of AI is photovoltaic + energy storage." ”
In recent years, Mi Lei has been calling for and promoting the development of the photonics industry. "We've always talked about the infrastructure of artificial intelligence. So now after the emergence of this wave of AI, the entire photonics industry has been brought up. Mi Lei said. It revealed that at present, there are more than 150 photon-related enterprises invested by Zhongke Chuangxing. Among them, one company has landed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, and other companies are also developing one after another.
Innovation and breakthroughs in energy science and technology have always been an important driving force for the development and progress of human civilization.
As early as the 70s of the 18th century, Watt invented the steam engine, and mankind converted "coal" into "power" for the first time, and the first industrial revolution began; In the 30s of the 19th century, Faraday invented the generator, mankind entered the "electric age", and quickly opened the second industrial revolution; In the middle of the 20th century, with the emergence and popularization of computers, mankind entered the "information age", and the third industrial revolution broke out rapidly.
Right now, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is underway. Mi Lei clearly feels that in the past two years, the national level has vigorously promoted the development of future industries, and has paid great attention to the new direction of "0 to 1", "such as controllable nuclear fusion, quantum computing, and low-altitude economy, all of which have been strongly supported by the state."
A number of interviewees stressed that talent is the key to accelerating the development of new quality productivity. Wang Guangxi found that the characteristics of entrepreneurs in the AI 2.0 era are significantly different from those in the AI 1.0 era. In the era of AI 1.0, entrepreneurs are more challenging, because they are often new to the ivory tower and have limited knowledge of business. But the entrepreneurs who are still active today are actually from the previous group, "all veterans of the industry".
Wang Guangxi believes that the challenge of this group of people is not the inertial thinking and path dependence of the academic community, but the cross-border ability. He has a conjecture, such as robots, "Maybe you only have AI scientists, or only automation and mechanization engineers, you can't do this well, you must have a high cross-border ability, understand both things very deeply, thoroughly, and can be well combined and implemented." ”
However, he also found that some "new generation" scientists are naturally able to combine the two things well. They are young, fearless, optimistic and have a constant passion for technology. Although the previous generation of successful people had all the ingredients for success, and these elements were also being engineered and productized, "the people who really rewrote history and created history may be those who believe in new technologies."
For example, Chen Jianyu, the founder of Xingdong Era, has been developing robots for more than ten years, and became an assistant professor and doctoral supervisor of Tsinghua University at the age of 28, promoting Xingdong Era to become one of the first companies to set foot in the field of embodied intelligent humanoid robots.
For the talents behind disruptive innovation, Mi Lei adheres to the concept of "less management", "you have to give him more freedom, so that he can freely explore, play, and innovate." Of course, we still have to help those who should be helped, but the core is to do a good job in the environment. Sometimes, Mi Lei feels that the external environment for some innovations is still not friendly enough, and "the resources to really support disruptive technologies and cutting-edge technologies are insufficient."
Mi Lei hopes that the government can play a more important role in the carrier of innovation, "just like the infrastructure construction in the past, in the era of innovation, we must do innovative infrastructure, such as public technology platforms."
Wang Guangxi suggested that for those early-stage companies that are really doing new quality productivity, more preferential support and market opportunities can be given at the policy and industrial levels.
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