Building a "Global First Choice City for Science and Technology Innovation Enterprises to Settle in", Shanghai Releases Basic Research on High Quality Incubator Cultivation Program | Incubator | Program
Jiefang Daily's Shangguan News reporter learned today that the Municipal Government Office recently issued the "Implementation Plan for Cultivating High Quality Incubators in Shanghai", aiming to leverage the important role of incubators in full process innovation, full factor aggregation, and full chain acceleration, continuously optimize the science and technology innovation ecosystem, assist in the cultivation of hard technology enterprises and the high-quality development of future industries, and comprehensively support the construction of international science and technology innovation centers.
The goal proposed in the plan is to cultivate no less than 20 high-quality incubators by 2025, demonstrate and drive no less than 200 incubators to achieve professional, branding, and international transformation and upgrading; Collaborating with high-tech development zones, characteristic industrial parks, etc., incubating and cultivating 10000 technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises, 2000 high-tech enterprises, 300 gazelle enterprises, 100 technology giant enterprises, and a group of hard science and technology enterprises with independent, cutting-edge, and disruptive technologies facing the world; Drive the formation of several incubation clusters, create 2-3 "science and technology innovation nuclear explosion points" with a production value of 100 billion yuan, and preliminarily establish the preferred city for global science and technology innovation enterprises to settle down.
Global selection of high-quality incubators
The person in charge of the Municipal Science and Technology Commission introduced that high-quality incubators are high-level innovation and entrepreneurship service institutions with first-class incubation talents as the core traction, and have the ability to provide hard technological innovation strategies, transform disruptive scientific and technological achievements, incubate high growth technological enterprises, and integrate all factor resources.
Compared with general incubators, high-quality incubators have four more obvious characteristics: firstly, they are more professional construction entities, guided by first-class incubation talents, guiding technology leading enterprises, well-known universities, research institutes, top investment institutions, etc. to carry out construction; The second is to focus more on hard technology incubation, focusing on modern industrial systems, focusing on cutting-edge technologies and future industries, supporting the leading transformation of disruptive scientific and technological achievements, and accelerating the incubation of hard technology enterprises; Thirdly, innovation factor resources are more concentrated, and through the multi chain coordination and integrated development of innovation chain, industry chain, capital chain, and talent chain, a virtuous interaction of "technology industry finance" is achieved; The fourth is to have a more international perspective and concept, integrate international high-end resources, expand the global innovation cooperation network, and achieve two-way integration of "going out" and "bringing in".
The plan shows that the cultivation of high-quality incubators will adopt a "global selection, integrated strategy" approach: attracting top-notch domestic and foreign incubators to develop and grow in Shanghai, and strengthening hierarchical cultivation, divided into two categories: "high-quality" and "high-quality cultivation", forming a "field focused, path condensed" construction plan one by one. The Municipal Science and Technology Commission and other departments will develop a classification and evaluation system for high-quality incubators, establish dynamic management, tracking services, data statistics, regular evaluation, and a survival of the fittest mechanism.
Introducing "Six Paths" to incubate talents
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To cultivate high-quality incubators, the plan proposes to implement five actions, including the "hard technology" incubation enhancement action, incubation talent cultivation action, financial empowerment assistance action, global innovation network integration action, and regional innovation development empowerment action.
In the "hard technology" incubation and improvement action, Shanghai will support the new model of "advanced incubation", guide high-quality incubators to cooperate with high-level technology think tanks, discover a number of new trends in the future development of segmented tracks, and achieve "advanced discovery" and "advanced layout"; Strengthen the tracking and docking of basic research, shift from "breeding projects" to "creative projects", and enhance the incubation strategy source function.
The plan also proposes to support strategic scientific and technological forces such as national laboratories and high-level research-oriented universities to build high-quality incubators, and drive the transformation and application of key core technologies in more future industrial key directions; Encourage high-quality incubators to deepen cooperation with universities, leading enterprises, and investment institutions, and strengthen breakthroughs in underlying and disruptive technologies.
"The new model of 'advanced incubation' can enable incubators to collaborate deeply with scientists and enhance their innovation strategy functions." Qu Yi, Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Incubation Industry Association and founder of Xinze Entrepreneurship, said that there is often a gap that needs to be bridged between basic research and entrepreneurial projects. To complete this risky process of technological achievement transformation, incubators can play an important role by conducting concept validation and other work through 'advanced incubation', providing entrepreneurial guidance for scientists in universities and research institutions, and verifying the commercialization feasibility of their research projects.
Open Innovation Center jointly built by Xinze Entrepreneurship and Biochip Company
In the incubation and talent cultivation action, Shanghai will introduce world-class incubation talents, relying on the "six paths" of transforming experienced scientists, interdisciplinary talents, technology venture capital talents, well-known professional managers, continuous successful entrepreneurs, and returnees with overseas work backgrounds to create high-quality incubators, and incorporate high-end incubation talents into the city's science and technology talent support system, allowing them to enjoy relevant policies and services. In terms of local talent cultivation, Shanghai will collaborate with qualified universities, institutions, and other units to create talent cultivation bases for achievement transformation, entrepreneurship incubation, and other areas. By offering education on technology transfer and vocational training for incubating technology management talents, Shanghai will cultivate a group of versatile talents.
Drive social capital investment forward
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In terms of financial empowerment and assistance actions, the plan proposes to strengthen the guidance of investment incubation linkage, effectively drive the flow of "patient capital" to high-quality technological achievements through the guidance of municipal parent funds, and flow into seed and start-up technology enterprises; Encourage high-quality incubators to link with municipal level parent funds, establish no less than one early hard technology investment seed fund, deepen concept verification and exploration of equity investment linkage, drive social capital investment forward, and help accelerate the transformation and development of achievement transformation projects.
To stimulate the vitality of state-owned investment incubation, Shanghai allows state-owned incubation teams to hold shares for incubation, and optimizes the investment approval process, piloting exit and fault tolerance mechanisms; Encourage state-owned enterprises to actively invest in innovative resources such as land, funds, facilities, and application scenarios, and participate in the construction of high-quality incubators and innovation and entrepreneurship clusters.
Ren Jia, Chairman and General Manager of the New Micro Innovation Source Incubator, believes that allowing state-owned incubation teams to hold shares in incubation can solve the incentive mechanism problem of cutting-edge technology project incubation service teams, and achieve risk sharing and benefit sharing between technology entrepreneurs and service entrepreneurs. "We need to design systems to show young people that incubation services are a career track with development space, which can realize life dreams and gain a sense of career achievement."
New minimally invasive source incubator
In the global innovation network integration action, the plan proposes to create a preferred place for global technology incubation, encourage high-quality incubators to establish branches or innovation bases overseas, strengthen collaboration and linkage with overseas universities, leading enterprises, etc., improve the "global research and development cross-border incubation Shanghai transformation" service chain, and accelerate the landing of cutting-edge overseas innovation projects in Shanghai.
In the action of enhancing regional innovation and development, Shanghai will combine industrial development layout, build high-quality incubators around universities, national laboratories, leading technology enterprises, world-class research institutions, and high-energy science and technology innovation bases; At the same time, we encourage high-quality incubators to drive the transformation and upgrading of other incubators through brand output, joint incubation, and other models, and promote the development of regional industrial clusters.