Universities are the support of a city's scientific and technological innovation.
One of the main characteristics of the rise and development of the San Francisco Bay Area, which is often referred to as Silicon Valley, is that it has a large number of top universities with strong scientific research strength as the basis, closely linking the high-tech large and small enterprises in the region, forming a whole chain of "science-technology-industry".
As a new bay area in the Yangtze River Delta, Qiantang is home to 14 colleges and universities, gathering nearly 250,000 teachers and students, and is also the location of the largest higher education park in the province. How to make the university's innovation resources more effectively transformed into "wealth" and become a new engine to promote industrial upgrading? Today, the "100 Gardens, 100 Schools, 10,000 Enterprises" innovation cooperation action - the construction of the innovation ecosystem around the university town in Qiantang (New) District was officially launched.
Xu Weihua, member of the party group and deputy mayor of the municipal government, Sun Ziqiang, second-level inspector of the Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology, Xie Bin, member of the party group and deputy director of the Provincial Department of Education, Shi Dongcai, member of the party group and deputy director of the Provincial Science and Technology Department, Wang Xin, secretary of the party group of the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Jin Chengtao, Shen Yanjun, Zhou Miaorong, Li Feng, Wang Xuexiong, Ma Yuhui, Yang Fan, relevant leaders of 14 universities in the district, representatives of scientific research institutes, financial service institutions, and outstanding science and technology enterprises participated.
You must know that the newly launched "circle" is precisely one of the first four innovation ecosystems of the big science and technology innovation platform proposed by Hangzhou this year, together with the innovation ecosystem of the Zijingang in West Lake District, the innovation ecosystem of the scientific device in Binjiang District and the innovation ecosystem of the Huanzhijiang Laboratory in Yuhang District, to build the spatial layout of Hangzhou's "two-wing drive and multi-point linkage" innovation ecosystem.
Where is the "circle" of Qiantang and how is it built? In order to build this "circle", where is Qiantang's confidence and confidence, and what kind of mission will it shoulder? Relying on this "circle", how will Qiantang leverage the new "Silicon Valley" and rebuild the Greater Bay Area? This series of questions, let's go to the meeting site to find the answer-
Take No. 2 Avenue as the axis of science and technology
Qiantang showed the goal of "ten hundred thousand".
According to the construction plan, Qiantang plans to build an innovation ecosystem around the university town with No. 2 Street as the axis of science and technology, focusing on the two-way traction of large majors and large industries, and making every effort to build a development pattern of "one core, one axis drive, one circle and two domains linkage".
Among them, the "one core" is the core strength of the innovation circle, that is, relying on the five alumni industrial parks, focusing on the three start-up spaces of KIC, Hangzhou High-tech Incubator, and Heda Digital Gathering Industrial Park, and fully guiding the implementation and transformation of university industry-university-research projects in the core area.
This "one axis" is the science and technology innovation axis of No. 2 Street. Qiantang will rely on innovative resources such as key laboratories of colleges and universities and enterprise R&D centers around No. 2 Avenue to create an alumni economic demonstration belt, a service belt for scientific research institutions, and a youth talent entrepreneurship belt.
"One Circle" is the innovation ecosystem around the university town launched today. Driven by the radiation of "one core and one axis", the Xiasha area should be linked with innovation resources such as the Hangzhou Institute of Medical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Jiangdong region should be linked with innovation platforms such as the Aircraft Composite Materials Technology Innovation Center to drive the six major industrial platforms to jointly build a global industrialization mechanism.
The goal of Qiantang's "circle-building" was also highlighted at the meeting: by 2026, 100 science and technology enterprises that have been successfully transformed into colleges and universities will be successfully implemented, and more than 400 alumni economic projects will be introduced; The number of alumni enterprises exceeds 1,000; Strive to attract more than 10,000 college students in the district to stay in the district for employment and entrepreneurship.
It is worth noting that, focusing on the innovation needs of the industrial chain, Qiantang will also take out real money in accordance with the principle of "real work and real support, first work and first support", and provide support policies for the four categories of objects: energy improvement, platform carrier, sharing and cooperation, and professional services, and strive to create a new model of scientific and technological services with precise policy support, key benefits for enterprises, and future development of disciplines.
For example, for the newly recognized national key laboratory, the maximum award is 5 million yuan; Encourage colleges and universities to establish market-oriented alumni industrial parks and university science and technology parks in the zone, introduce and implement alumni enterprises, college teachers and students entrepreneurship projects, and the maximum amount of support for a single project is nearly one million yuan a year......
From "building a city" to "building a circle"
Inject a steady stream of innovative vitality into the development of the industry
For Qiantang, being close to the university is a rare resource for innovation.
From the "learning-oriented" of the higher education park to the "industry-university-research collaboration" of the innovation ecosystem around the university town, from the independent campus space to the open science and technology innovation area, a series of decision-making and deployment shows the progression and deepening of Qiantang, which also hides the confidence and confidence of Qiantang to "build a circle".
At the beginning of the new semester, the instruments of the analysis and testing center of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University were "busy" again: from microscopic material analysis to macroscopic performance testing, many companies came with demand, and the laboratory was not lively.
"Here, the testing cycle of our new products has been shortened from 7 days to 3 hours, and the cost of nearly 80,000 yuan can be saved every year." In July this year, Hangzhou Xingrong Technology Co., Ltd. successfully completed the observation and analysis of the surface morphology of new products with the help of the site emission scanning electron microscope in the laboratory. At present, the product has been successfully transferred from R&D to trial production.
This is a vivid scene of Qiantang promoting the linkage of school-enterprise resources and helping the development of scientific and technological innovation. In March 2021, Hangzhou Qiantang Science City was established in Qiantang (New) District, using the city as a laboratory to fully leverage Qiantang's industrial advantages and the abundant science and education resources of the higher education park, and enhance the momentum of high-quality development. In this "city" that has just turned "three years old", the Hangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone (Qiantang Science City) Industry-Education Consortium, which was established last year, has been successfully selected as the first batch of state-level city-level industry-education consortiums as the only case in Zhejiang Province.
From instrument sharing to doctor's entry into the enterprise, from building an integrated cooperation platform of "production, education and research" to building the city's first scientific and technological achievements transformation service complex, Qiantang has continuously tapped the "gold content" in the university town through a series of measures, which not only boosts the confidence of the virtuous cycle development of educators, but also transforms this "blessed land of talents" into an "innovation highland". As the "main front" of the university's innovation ecosystem, Qiantang will focus on the five leading industries of "vehicle medicine core chemical aviation", actively build a bridge for school-enterprise cooperation, give full play to the advantages of university scientific research and talents, and inject a steady stream of innovative vitality into the development of the industry.
To "make a circle" but also to "get out of the circle"
Strive to become the core hub of the province's innovation map
Further promoting the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements and shaping new advantages of regional development with scientific and technological innovation is obviously the core essence of Qiantang's "circle-making". But for Qiantang in the "pathfinding" stage, how attractive the future is, how "rolled" the track is.
Focusing on the other three large science and technology innovation platform ecosystems in Hangzhou, the fierce competition can be seen——
With Zhejiang University and Westlake University as the core, the innovation ecosystem around Zijingang in West Lake District strives to build "the first city of China's new university"; With the International Zero Magnetic Science Valley as the core source area, the high-tech zone (Binjiang) Huanda scientific device innovation ecosystem will create the main battlefield of innovation and development curation, the preferred landlord position for achievement transformation and the main platform for future industry leading areas; The innovation ecosystem of Huanzhijiang Laboratory in Yuhang District takes scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation as the main line of development, and strives to build a spatial pattern of "one heart, one lake, one road", ...... spatial layout of the innovation ecosystem of "two-wing drive and multi-point linkage".
From the beginning of its birth, Qiantang has shouldered the important positioning and mission of implementing the "Hangzhou Bay Digital Economy and High-end Manufacturing Integration and Innovation Development Leading Area", and has played the role of a "pathfinder" for Zhejiang's high-quality development. In the face of the new race of innovation and creation, how can Qiantang, which is located at the core of the Yangtze River Delta Greater Bay Area, break through and catch up, and truly realize "bravely forging a new road and standing at the forefront of the tide"?
"The core of the construction of the innovation ecosystem around the university town is the deep integration of industry, education and research, and there are many colleges and universities in Qiantang, which have rare and unique resources." Han Fang, a lecturer at the Economics Teaching and Research Department of the Party School of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee and a doctor of economics, said that in order to build a "Qiantang model" around the innovation ecosystem of the university town, in addition to further promoting high-level strategic platforms such as universities and scientific research institutes to empower Qiantang's leading industries, we should also focus on considering and systematically planning the construction of a system for the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements and the cultivation of ecology.
She has three suggestions: first, promote institutional innovation that can promote the efficient and sustainable operation of the university's proof-of-concept center and the efficient operation of the pilot platform; second, to promote a series of institutional innovations that are conducive to promoting the ownership and transaction of intellectual property rights in the cooperative research and development of universities, scientific research institutions, laboratories and enterprises; Third, we should further improve the industrial ecology of venture capital and venture capital, and urge the government venture capital fund to guide more social capital to invest early, small, and in science and technology.
The ecosystem is a "circle-making" road, which should gather upstream and downstream, integrate physical space, and build a collaborative linkage research matrix integrating R&D, incubation, and investment functions; The ecosystem is a "out of the circle" road, to break through the boundaries of the industry, actively explore interdisciplinary and cross-field cooperation models, introduce external high-quality resources, and enhance their own innovation capabilities and competitiveness. Let us wait and see how the first-class new area will make great strides and continue to carry forward, show the style of the new industrial city in the Yangtze River Delta New Bay Area, and strive to become the core hub of the province's innovation map.