Zeng Peiyan: The decoupling of science and technology is not in line with the general trend of the development of the digital economy

Ni Hao

The 2019 "Innovation Economy Forum" was held in Beijing on November 20, and Zeng Peiyan, co-chairman of the forum and chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said in his speech: Innovation and application are borderless, and the decoupling of science and technology and artificial restrictions are not in line with the direction and trend of the development of the digital economy, and will also unnecessarily increase the cost of innovation, deviating from the original intention of innovation, and benefiting others.

Zeng Peiyan said in his speech: Today, relying on advanced communication and mobile Internet, people can make real-time video calls in almost any place in the world and anyone. Just past China's "Double 11" shopping festival, the national network sales reached 55 billion US dollars in one day, generating 1.7 billion express parcel orders and orders, which shows that people can buy goods from all over the world through e-commerce without leaving home. This was unimaginable in the past and amazing.

Zeng Pei said that theoretical innovation, institutional innovation, scientific and technological innovation, cultural innovation, and so on have profoundly affected all levels of the economy and society, and even people's concepts and modes of thinking.

Zeng Peiyan shared two views in his speech: First, innovation is an element of the development and progress of human society, and every major change in human history stems from innovation and bursts from innovation. The invention and use of the steam engine gave birth to trains and modern factories; The invention of electricity and the emergence of electric motors and internal combustion engines have led to the vigorous rise of traditional industries such as electrical, chemical and petrochemical energy; The computer Internet has opened up the information and network era, changed the mode of human life, production and survival, brought a new industrial revolution in traditional industries, and a new generation of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain are developing rapidly. In the future, innovation will change the world at a deeper level.

Second, innovation and application are borderless, innovation is the aura of human wisdom, in a rational way to understand nature, to understand the world, and even to change the world. Every invention and discovery of theoretical science will trigger and accompany the development of applied technology. Marketization, industrialization and the free flow of cross-border elements are essential for innovation. Laboratory innovation or individual creativity, are an element of knowledge production, must be through circulation and exchange to form a global industrial chain, data chain and value chain, in order to achieve their own value, true value.

Zeng Peiyan stressed that in the information age, innovation is mostly the bottom of the system and multidisciplinary integrated innovation, closed innovation is lifeless, scientific and technological decoupling and artificial restrictions are not in line with the direction and trend of the development of the digital economy, will also unnecessarily increase the cost of new innovation, deviate from the original intention of innovation, and it is not beneficial to others and themselves. Countries should strengthen exchanges and cooperation on innovation, strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, and create an atmosphere conducive to innovation so that the source of innovation can flow fully.

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