Solidly promote the implementation of science and technology policies, make efforts to tackle key core technologies, and enhance the technological innovation capabilities of enterprises…… At present, the science and technology “Ningbo” is cleaving the waves and surging forward. According to the data, the number of high-tech enterprises in Ningbo has increased from 1,479 in 2017 to 3,919 in 2021, with an average annual growth rate of more than 25%. This year, Ningbo will continue to take the cultivation of high-tech enterprises as the “bull’s nose” of innovation-driven development, focus on tapping potential, replenishing stock, and expanding volume, and strive to add 1,500 new high-tech enterprises.
“The report of the Municipal Party Congress proposed that we should focus on scientific and technological innovation and make great progress, and strengthen the new engine to catch up and surpass. This requires us to put innovation at the core of the overall situation of modernization, give full play to the role of enterprises as the main body of innovation, exert extraordinary efforts and implement extraordinary strategies, and transform the ‘key variables’ of scientific and technological innovation into the ‘maximum increment’ of high-quality development. Recently, the Ningbo Municipal Science and Technology Bureau is planning to introduce an action plan to create a better environment to support the development of high-tech enterprises, start the implementation of the high-tech enterprise “breaking 10,000 action”, and strive to reach 10,000 high-tech enterprises by the end of the “14th Five-Year Plan”.
With policy-driven as the starting point, a number of technology-based enterprises have accelerated their growth in Ningbo. In February this year, Ningbo issued the “Ten Policies for Benefiting Enterprises with Science and Technology in Ningbo”, which fully implemented preferential tax policies such as income tax incentives for high-tech enterprises and 75% additional deduction of enterprise R&D expenses (100% in the manufacturing industry) in response to the actual needs of enterprises such as reducing burden and reducing costs, stabilizing growth, improving innovation capabilities, and introducing high-end talents. The tax reduction and related awards and subsidies will further feed back to enterprises to improve their scientific research level. The relevant person in charge of Detacente revealed that the company’s technical team will be expanded to more than 200 people this year to meet the urgent needs of digital transformation.
At the same time, Ningbo will deeply tap the science and technology enterprises with good innovation foundation and great development potential, establish a high-tech enterprise echelon cultivation library, and tailor personalized cultivation programs based on the development of various types of enterprises, so as to provide professional guidance and precise support for high-tech “seed” enterprises. For example, it provides front-end intellectual property services for start-up enterprises and talent projects, effectively improves the high conversion rate of newly registered enterprises, gives full play to the efficiency of the innovation source platform, builds a number of benchmark municipal technology innovation centers, and strives to overcome a number of key common technologies in the industrial chain.
At present, all kinds of enterprise groups in Ningbo are actively transforming to new energy, new materials, industrial interconnection, high-end parts and other formats, and have become a new force to promote the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, the upgrading of the industrial base, and the modernization of the industrial chain. In the next step, Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau will take the high-tech enterprise identification model and incentive policies as a foothold to effectively promote the improvement of scientific and technological governance capabilities such as enterprise R&D investment, intellectual property rights, and achievement transformation, so as to modernize Binhai.The construction of a metropolis condenses stronger wisdom.
(Source: Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau)