Recently, the 8th China Innovation Challenge (Ningbo) was successfully held. As an important measure to promote the deep integration of innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain and talent chain, and accelerate the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, this competition released a total of 13 major technical needs and attracted 52 teams to unveil the challenge on the spot.
At the competition site, 91% of the major technical needs came from the “national manufacturing individual champion”, specialized and new “little giants” and high-tech enterprises, and the total investment in the challenge projects is expected to exceed 4.700 million yuan, a total of 56 universities and 10 innovative enterprises from all over the country participated in the on-site challenge.
“Preparation of Palladium Metal Film on the Surface of Semiconductor Ultrafine Bonded Copper Wire and Its Key Technology for Bonding Performance” “Process Optimization Technology of High-performance Semi-solid Die-casting Aluminum Alloy Materials for High-strength and Lightweight Auto Parts”……In the face of major technical needs, after fierce competition, the technical solutions proposed by 13 innovative teams, including the team of Central South University and the team of Wuhan University, stood out and won the solution award. Ningbo Kangqiang Electronics Co., Ltd. and other enterprises won the best technical demand award; Ningbo Shengli Tongchuang Technology Consulting Services Co., Ltd., Yuyao Science and Technology Market and other 7 units won the best organization award.
It is understood that Ningbo is the first in the country to introduce the management measures of the China Innovation Challenge, through the “unveiling the leader” method, the formation of the best combination of innovation research, the construction of a new model of “competition on behalf of evaluation” science and technology plan projects, that is, the successful docking through the competition and meet the key common technical needs, listed as a key R&D project in Ningbo and project support, the formation of “enterprises put forward outsourcing technology needs, the government bears the outsourcing R & D costs” incentive mechanism. Up to now, the 8th China Innovation Challenge (Ningbo) has served more than 1,800 enterprises (times), released more than 760 technical needs, attracted more than 2,000 technical teams from home and abroad to participate in docking, directly contributed to industry-university-research cooperation of more than 400 million yuan, and guided enterprises to invest more than 1.1 billion yuan in research and development.
“The competition brings together resources from all parties to explore the formation of an industry-university-research collaborative innovation path of ‘enterprise problems, government problems, and global innovation resources to solve problems’, which further stimulates the collaborative innovation vitality of Ningbo enterprises and high-level scientific research institutes, and creates a good atmosphere for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the city.” The relevant person in charge of the Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau said.
In recent years, Ningbo has continuously promoted policy innovation, mechanism innovation and institutional innovation for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and has explored the formation of “independent research and development + project cooperation”, “scientific and technological entrepreneurship + iterative innovation”, “common research and development + hospital-enterprise cooperation”, “overseas research and development + transnational technology mergers and acquisitions” and other characteristic and efficient scientific and technological achievements transformation models. Accelerate the construction of Ningbo science and technology market 3.0 version, the establishment of district (county, city) sub-market and professional market, the establishment of key industries covering the whole area of the technology market network; Accelerate the construction of Ningbo International Technology Innovation Center and Ningbo Workstation of China Technology Exchange, introduce and cultivate third-party technology trading, consulting and evaluation and other scientific and technological service institutions, strengthen the tracking and assistance of the results of the competition, and promote in-depth cooperation between industry, university and research.
(Source: Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau)