On November 28th, the 4th China Innovation Challenge (Zhejiang) and the final of the 2019 Zhejiang Technology Demand Competition “Posting a List of Talents” started in Hangzhou. After fierce competition, Professor Feng Hai from the School of Pharmacy of Zhejiang University of Technology finally won the Golden Idea Award and signed an intentional cooperation agreement with the demanding enterprises.
The reporter learned that since the challenge was launched in May this year, the province has collected 210 technological innovation needs of enterprises in industries such as new materials, biomedicine, digital information, energy conservation and environmental protection, and high-end equipment manufacturing. After expert review, 100 items were publicized, of which 15 items were released on roadshows in industry competitions, and 33 teams from inside and outside the province unveiled the challenge.
In today’s finals, the first prize winners of five industry field competitions competed for the Golden Idea Award together. The finals were conducted in four steps: announcing the rules, introducing the requirements, expounding the scheme, and scoring by experts. The on-site evaluation experts were composed of industry technical experts, investment experts, and enterprise representatives.
The technical problem of “industrialization of lactobionic acid prepared from lactose” put forward by Zhejiang Yixin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is the demand of revealing the Golden Idea Award in the competition. Lactobionic acid is a kind of polyhydroxy organic acid, which is the third generation fruit acid with many functions, such as anti-oxidation, repair, anti-aging, moisturizing and promoting body renewal. Shi Xinjian, deputy general manager of the company’s technology, said that Feng Hai’s plan for preparing lactobionic acid has the advantages of environmental protection, high conversion rate and high purity, and is a relatively perfect technical route.
Feng Hai told reporters that the enterprise’s application of this technical scheme is expected to produce 50 tons of lactobionic acid annually, reaching an output value of 10 million yuan a year. He said that at present, there are not many opportunities for college teachers to meet with enterprises, but they have scientific research ability but can’t find the research direction. Encouraging college teachers to go deep into enterprise research requires the technology market to build such a platform.
In response to this challenge, Li Bogeng, director of the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering of Zhejiang University, who was the judge of this competition, scored a high score of 95 points. He said that in the evaluation process, he paid more attention to whether the preliminary work foundation of the proposed scheme was mature, and the scheme was superior in terms of technical content, benefit, product significance and work maturity.
Li Bogeng believes that many people are often paper-oriented in scientific research. Through the novel form of challenge, researchers can understand the needs of enterprises and enterprises can see their achievements, which has played a good role in propaganda and demonstration. I believe that more and more projects will be collected next year.
It is worth mentioning that the stage of this year’s contest is surrounded by LED screens on three sides, allowing the challenger to stand in the center of the circular stage under the spotlight and show his innovative style to the audience in all directions. In addition, a business model ring is added to the scoring mechanism for the first time..Festival, which is also a brand-new “challenge” for the contestants.
Li Xianwen, chairman of Zhejiang Xianwen Investment Management Co., Ltd., said that if the project stays at the academic level and doesn’t pay much attention to market conversion rate, output rate and cost, it will be just a blank sheet of paper. Therefore, I evaluate more from the perspective of capital and pay more attention to the input-output ratio of the project.
Guided by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the contest is hosted by the Torch Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Science and Technology Department of Zhejiang Province, and hosted by Zhejiang Science and Technology Market (Zhejiang Wuyi Technology Co., Ltd.). It is one of the important activities of China Zhejiang Online Technology Market Week in 2019.
(Source: Zhejiang Online)