Enterprises solve problems, colleges and universities solve problems, and market judgments

Enterprises are the main body of market innovation, colleges and universities are the main force of basic research, the source of major scientific and technological breakthroughs, and the collaborative innovation of schools and enterprises is the only way
to promote specialized, special and new small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve both quantity and quality 。 The Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the State Intellectual Property Office recently organized the "Thousands of Schools and Thousands of Enterprises" collaborative innovation partnership action (hereinafter referred to as the "Thousands of Schools and Thousands of Enterprises" action) to use 5 years to add about 30 key core technology integration research platforms and about 100 engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education, and organize to promote the high-quality development
of more than 10,000 enterprises supported by 1,000 colleges and universities.

Mechanism innovation is the key

The "thousands of schools and thousands of enterprises" initiative proposes to promote the creation of a number of innovation consortia
.
Support universities, leading enterprises, and small and medium-sized enterprises to jointly form various forms of innovation consortia such as key laboratories, research institutes, technology centers, engineering centers, and industry-university-research bases, strengthen the research and development of key core technologies and common technologies, explore cooperation mechanisms such as patent ownership sharing and income rights transfer, and promote the sharing
of scientific and technological achievements.

The key to school-enterprise collaborative innovation is mechanism innovation
.
Nanjing, Jiangsu Province gives full play to the advantages of scientific and educational resources, focuses on the cultivation of specialized and special new enterprises, and takes the lead in introducing 23 policies and measures to deepen school-enterprise collaborative innovation in the country, and the idea of "government guidance, university empowerment, and enterprise leadership" has become clearer
.

"School-enterprise coordination should support industry leading enterprises to take the lead, organize specialized and special new enterprises with advantages in the upstream and downstream of the industry, universities and scientific research institutes in relevant key disciplines, and create a high-level innovation consortium
.
" Jia Fang, general manager of the National University Science and Technology Park of Southeast University, introduced that the science and technology park is one of the first batch of national university science and technology parks awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education, and vigorously promotes the construction of the whole chain of "entrepreneurial nursery + co-creation space + incubator + accelerator + industrial park".

Through school-enterprise cooperation, Jinling Institute of Science and Technology has built 73 science and technology innovation platforms at or above the municipal level, including 25 supported by schools and mainly built by enterprises
.
Dai Jun, deputy director of the Science and Technology Division of Jinling University of Science and Technology, said that as a university in Nanjing, the college aims to integrate into Nanjing's "2+2+2+X" innovative industrial system, with the purpose of docking the innovation needs of enterprises and deepening industry-university-research cooperation
.

"School-enterprise cooperation intermediary service institutions are conducive to the government, universities and scientific research institutions to establish a new type of relationship, promote a high degree of integration of industrial chain and innovation chain, and promote industry-university-research cooperation
.
" However, it should be noted that school-enterprise intermediary service institutions have yet to be scaled and allianced
.
Zhao Shunlong, president of the Jiangsu Science and Technology Innovation Association and secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Economics and Management of Nanjing University of Technology, believes that school-enterprise collaborative innovation needs the help of intermediary service institutions to open up the last mile
from industrialization to marketization.

Promote the transformation of patented technologies in colleges and universities

The "Thousands of Schools and Thousands of Enterprises" action proposes to focus on promoting strategic cooperation between universities and industry leading enterprises, specialized, special and new "little giant" enterprises, and specialized, special and new small and medium-sized enterprises, focusing on the innovation needs of enterprises, exploring the establishment of a "unveiling the leader" mechanism, and improving the efficiency of collaborative innovation between
universities and enterprises through the technical research mode of enterprise questions and collaborative answers.
Data show that in 2021, the number of patent transfer licenses of university research institutes reached 27,000, a year-on-year increase of 33.
4%, of which 30% of patents belong to strategic emerging industries, becoming the "source of living water"
for the transformation of high-value patents.

In view of the harvesting problem of high-yield rice in China, Jiangsu University has developed key technologies and equipment for joint harvesting adapted to the high-yield rice harvesting in China, applied for 106 domestic invention patents, 11 PCT national patent applications, and formed a patent layout around 8 core products, of which the core patent "an axial feeding type rice and wheat threshing and separation integrated device" won the China Patent Gold Award
。 The school actively promotes the implementation and application of this series of patents, the main patents in the form of general licensing in Jiangsu Wode Agricultural Machinery Co.
, Ltd.
, Lovol Heavy Industry Co.
, Ltd.
, Starlight Agricultural Machinery Co.
, Ltd.
and Jiangsu Shangqi Heavy Industry Technology Co.
, Ltd.
and other crawler combine harvester leading manufacturers have been applied, the cumulative license amount exceeds 5 million yuan, service enterprises have built a number of high-efficiency combine harvester production lines, a total of more than 80,000 products have been sold in the past 3 years, and related products are exported to Thailand, Iran and other countries and regions.
The economic benefits are significant
.

The "Thousands of Schools and Thousands of Enterprises" action promotes the implementation of a number of university patent open licensing projects, and promotes the transformation of university patented technologies into real productivity; Improve the transformation mechanism of scientific and technological achievements from "1" to "N", and promote the transformation of scientific and technological innovation achievements into effective economic output
.

"School-enterprise dual employment" accelerates school-enterprise integration

The "thousands of schools and thousands of enterprises" action proposes to explore the selection of a group of experts and professors as technical mentors
for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Specifically, it is to implement the "school-enterprise dual employment" system, select a group of experts and professors to serve as technical mentors for specialized, special and new small and medium-sized enterprises, provide "one-on-one" technical consultation and guidance for enterprises, promote the industrialization and application of research results and patented technologies of experts and professors in enterprises, and realize the transfer of a number of technologies, the promotion of a number of projects, and the solution of a number of problems
.

Professor Zhou Zhiming of Chongqing University of Technology's team developed a new nano-coating technology, and at the end of 2021, he submitted an application for achievement transformation to the school, which coincided with Chongqing University of Technology's reform of scientific and technological achievements empowerment - giving the ownership of scientific and technological achievements to the person or team
who completed the achievements.
After Zhou Zhiming's team enjoyed the new policy and obtained the ownership of the new nano-coating technology, the team cooperated with a company in Zhejiang to establish Chongqing Hechuang Nano Technology Co.
, Ltd.
through equity and cash shareholding.

Nanjing Agricultural University has made use of its own advantages to open up the road of school-enterprise cooperation in agricultural projects, and has made great progress
in promoting the development of agricultural science and technology industry.
Professor Huang Ming, a member of the National Broiler Industry Technology System Implementation Expert Group of Nanjing Agricultural University, founded Nanjing Professor Huang Food Technology Co.
, Ltd.

The company has established cooperative relations with many professional colleges and universities such as Nanjing Agricultural University to jointly solve many technical problems such as upgrading and transformation of traditional meat product automation equipment and bio-preservation, and help the development of
enterprises.
In August this year, led by Nanjing Professor Huang Food Technology Co.
, Ltd.
, Nanjing Agricultural University, Qingdao Agricultural University, Shandong New Hope Liuhe Group Co.
, Ltd.
, and Henan Qixian Yongda Food Industry Co.
, Ltd.
jointly completed the "Key Technology and Industrialization of Poultry Meat Efficient Processing" project, which won the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the China National Light Industry Federation
in 2021.
The brand of "Professor Huang of Nanjing Agricultural University" has become a model for university professors to start their own businesses, and has become a characteristic business card
of science and technology industrialization of Nanjing Agricultural University.

With the dual identity of "enterprise person" and "university person", experts and professors not only directly promote the joint scientific research of schools and enterprises, but also promote the transformation of scientific research results, which has become an important link between
school and enterprise.
Liu Hui, director of the National Technology Transfer Center of China University of Mining and Technology, introduced the cooperation between XCMG Group and China University of Mining and Technology as an example: "In 2021, the school sent 19 outstanding young teachers whose research direction is highly matched with the key breakthrough direction of the enterprise to take up positions in the enterprise, go deep into the front line of the enterprise, solve a large number of key technical problems in the actual production of enterprises, and create economic benefits for enterprises of more than 100 million yuan
.
”

Qu Lingbo, vice president of Zhengzhou University, said that this year we will set up another 100 professor teams to truly realize the "problem" of enterprises and needs, the "answer" of universities and professors, and the "judgment" of the market and society
.

(Gao Na comprehensive arrangement)

China Food News (October 12, 2022, Version 04)

(Editor: Gao Na).