Author: Chen Tao (Hefei Institute of Material Science, China Academy of Sciences); Wan Jinbo (China Academy of Sciences Technology Strategy Consulting and Research Institute)
Core view
To speed up the cultivation and development of new quality productive forces is to promote industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, apply scientific and technological innovation achievements to specific industries and industrial chains in time, transform and upgrade traditional industries, cultivate and expand emerging industries, lay out and build future industries, improve the modern industrial system, and achieve high-quality development.
Scientific and technological innovation is the core element of developing new-quality productive forces, and pillar industries are the main positions of developing new-quality productive forces. Scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation demand each other and promote each other. Scientific and technological innovation is the source of industrial innovation, which is driven by industrial innovation and human pursuit of a better life. To speed up the cultivation and development of new quality productive forces is to promote industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, apply scientific and technological innovation achievements to specific industries and industrial chains in time, transform and upgrade traditional industries, cultivate and expand emerging industries, lay out and build future industries, improve the modern industrial system, and achieve high-quality development.
First, strengthen the national strategic scientific and technological strength.Major original and leading scientific and technological innovation is the source of developing new quality productivity. The scientific and technological innovation system led by the national strategic scientific and technological strength focuses on the national strategic needs, and at the same time, it is derived to promote the overall promotion of pillar industries, the cultivation of emerging industries and future industries. The first is to select topics around the national strategic needs. National strategic scientific and technological forces, such as national laboratories, national scientific research institutions, high-level research universities and leading scientific and technological enterprises, focus on major scientific and technological issues that affect and restrict economic and social development and national security, turn the list of issues into a list of tasks, and tackle key problems in basic frontier fields such as quantum technology, information and integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, life and health, biological breeding, aerospace and ocean, advanced materials and manufacturing, new energy, resources and environment. The second is to focus on strategic tasks and innovate organizational models. Focusing on strategic needs, we will form major scientific and technological research projects, build a research system that matches tasks and projects, select strategic scientists from a global perspective, gather superior forces to carry out cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborative research, and form major original and leading scientific and technological achievements. The third is to optimize resource allocation around strategic objectives. Guided by the optimal allocation of innovative resources, we will carry out strategic-oriented major tasks, achieve breakthroughs in key areas, promote major achievements "laying eggs along the way", and provide strategic, forward-looking and basic scientific and technological innovation support for cultivating new quality productivity.
Second, strengthen the main position of scientific and technological innovation of enterprises.Enterprises are the key subjects to absorb and create subversive technologies and cutting-edge technologies, gather innovative resources, and cultivate and develop new quality productivity. The first is to guide resource elements to gather in enterprises. Give full play to the role of financial integration in supporting scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and promote the iterative upgrading of standards, rules, brands and values of scientific and technological enterprises. Establish industrial venture capital funds in key areas, actively develop venture capital, attract and incite social capital, expand patient capital, drive more scientific and technological resources to gather in enterprises with strong innovation ability and high innovation efficiency, and promote the innovation and development of enterprises. The second is to support leading enterprises to participate in key core technology research. Focusing on the key core technology of "sticking the neck", we will deploy projects, platforms and tasks in an integrated manner, guide enterprises to participate in major national science and technology projects and key national R&D plans, and accelerate breakthroughs in basic technologies such as key components, parts and basic materials. Promote leading enterprises in science and technology to condense key issues and needs from major application scenarios, form major scientific and technological tasks, and increase the policy and resource guidance for enterprises to participate in topic selection. Third, support leading enterprises to take the lead in organizing collaborative innovation in Industry-University-Research. Give full play to the leading and integrated role of leading enterprises in science and technology, efficiently allocate the elements of innovation resources in Industry-University-Research, unite universities and institutes to form an innovation consortium around key scientific research tasks, drive small and medium-sized enterprises to integrate innovation, and jointly build innovation chain, industrial chain and supply chain in a wider scope to form an innovation cluster.
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Third, strengthen the synergy between scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.Improving the overall efficiency of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation is an important focus of developing new quality productivity. The first is to strengthen coordination between the central and local governments and between regions. According to the national financial final accounts data, in 2022, the national fiscal expenditure on science and technology was 1,112.84 billion yuan, of which the central and local fiscal expenditure on science and technology accounted for 34.2% and 65.8% respectively. It is necessary to adhere to a national chess game, promote national strategic regional coordination, closely focus on national strategic scientific and technological needs and regional scientific and technological innovation layout, and form effective convergence and overall allocation of resources. The second is to strengthen innovation synergy in Industry-University-Research. The essence of Industry-University-Research’s deep integration is the effective connection and optimal combination of scientific and technological innovation resources and industrial innovation resources. It is necessary to deploy innovation chain around the industrial chain and innovation chain around the industrial chain to enhance the level and competitiveness of science and technology and industrial development. The third is to strengthen the cooperation between business entities and innovation entities. Universities, institutes and enterprises focus on innovation goals, give full play to their respective advantages through task traction, strengthen collaborative innovation between science and technology and industry, bridge the information asymmetry and resource mismatch between R&D and production, and turn innovation advantages into competitive advantages in developing new quality productivity.
Fourth, strengthen industrial quality and competitiveness.Enhance the flexibility and resilience of the industrial chain and supply chain, and ensure that the industrial chain and supply chain are self-controllable, safe and reliable. First, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. Empower the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries with advanced technology, accelerate cross-border integration and innovation and iterative application of technology, promote the high-end, intelligent and green development of manufacturing industry, and realize the transformation of industrial development from factor-driven and efficiency-driven to innovation-driven The second is to optimize the systematic layout of emerging industries and future industries. Consolidate and expand the leading edge of 5G, intelligent networked new energy vehicles, new energy and other industries, accelerate the development of frontier emerging hydrogen energy, new materials, innovative drugs and other industries, actively create new growth engines such as bio-manufacturing, commercial aerospace and low-altitude economy, and open up new tracks such as "artificial intelligence+",quantum technology and life sciences. Accelerate the tackling of major tasks, combine regional reality, strengthen system layout, highlight characteristic advantages, and form a differentiated development pattern with complementary advantages. The third is to comprehensively improve the level of industrial development. Using advanced technology to empower industrial upgrading, chain owners take the lead in promoting chain building, chain extension, chain supplement and chain strengthening, and drive small and medium-sized enterprises to enter the chain, forming a development pattern of supporting upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and enhancing the integrity, stability and competitiveness of the industrial chain. Accelerate the cultivation of strategic emerging industrial clusters, fully release the spatial agglomeration effect of knowledge clusters, industrial clusters and innovation clusters, and enhance the influence, radiation and competitiveness of various parks.
Fifth, build a new production relationship.Scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation are dynamic and have great uncertainty. To establish a new production relationship that is compatible with the new quality productivity, it is necessary to further deepen the reform in an all-round way and give full play to the decisive role of the market in allocating resources, the guiding role of government policies such as science, technology and industry, and the linking role of social mechanisms. The first is to strengthen the traction of innovation and development goals. Clarify the strategic objectives of regional scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation to support the construction of a strong country in science and technology and an economic power, refine the measurement indicators and action plans, form a basic system to support comprehensive innovation, and provide institutional guarantee for the development of new quality productive forces. The second is to promote scientific and technological innovation, industrial innovation and institutional innovation. Around the logic of scientific and technological innovation, industrial innovation market logic and capital logic, we will build a high-standard national unified market, create a good innovation ecology and business environment, open up the blocking points and blocking points of the flow of production factors, and smooth the virtuous circle of "science and technology-industry-finance". The third is to deepen the reform of economy, education, science and technology, talents and other systems. Strengthen the consistency between reform and macro-policy orientation, deepen the comprehensive reform of educational science and technology talents, and work together with economic system reform and supply-side structural reform to form a joint force. Promote the integration of production and education, science and education, cultivate more strategic scientific and technological talents, leading scientific and technological talents and innovative teams, and transform the advantages of regional scientific and technological education talents into new kinetic energy and advantages for innovation and development.