On the afternoon of the 12th, Xia Baolong, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Congress, visited the Zhejiang Science and Technology Market located in Binjiang District, Hangzhou for inspection. He emphasized the need to fully leverage the platform role of the Zhejiang Science and Technology Market, create an endless trading market for scientific and technological achievements, accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productivity, promote independent innovation and technological progress of enterprises, and provide strong support for our province to vigorously implement the innovation driven development strategy and accelerate economic transformation and upgrading.
In 2002, our province established an online technology market, which has now become the largest gathering of scientific and technological resources and the largest technology transaction volume in the country. To promote the integration of online and physical technology markets, the Zhejiang Science and Technology Market, which integrates exhibition, trading, communication, cooperation, and sharing, officially opened on December 8, 2014. At present, 35 technology intermediaries engaged in technology transfer, consulting and evaluation, investment and financing, intellectual property and other fields have settled in, forming a one-stop innovation service chain, and initially realizing the functional complementarity between the physical technology market and the online technology market.
Xia Baolong visited the technology achievement exhibition hall and technology service hall located in the market, watched the online technology market function demonstration, listened to the report of the person in charge of the provincial science and technology department on the market construction situation, and inquired in detail about the auction and trading of scientific and technological achievements. He pointed out that building a technology market is one of the most effective means to deepen the reform of the market economy system, solve the information asymmetry between enterprises and scientific research institutions, closely integrate scientific research achievements with actual production, and better transform them into productive forces. The technology market is a large platform for showcasing and trading excellent technological achievements. We need to use this platform to truly bridge the “last mile” of technological transformation and effectively solve the problem of “two skins” in the technology economy.
Xia Baolong emphasized that to accelerate the transfer of scientific and technological achievements and promote their industrialization, we must adhere to market-oriented operations, build auction trading platforms, and truly form a tangible and intangible, online and offline, online and offline interconnected, interactive, and complementary technology market system with the online technology market. We need to have sufficient information and strive to expand the scope and reach of auctions, accelerate the establishment of horizontal and vertical networks, and connect with scientific research institutions and universities across the country and even the world, as well as the scientific research needs of enterprises and institutions inside and outside the province, to carry out auctions in different categories. We need collaboration among provinces, cities, and counties, as well as coordination among various departments. Science and technology departments at all levels in the province should act as “shop assistants”, truly expand and implement auction platforms, and do everything possible to turn scientific and technological achievements into tangible productivity.
(Source: Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology Author: Zhejiang Daily Reporter Ying Jianyong/Wen Huang Shulin/Photo)