The "Scientific Shanghai Initiative" was released, and the discipline advocated by Qian Xuesen ushered in a "renaissance"
Yesterday, the "Pujiang Innovation Forum - 2024 Science and Technology Innovation Think Tank International Symposium" opened in Shanghai. Scientists and policy-making experts from well-known science and technology innovation think tanks at home and abroad gathered together to discuss the topic of "Science in the New Era". The Shanghai Institute of Science jointly participated in the meeting and released the "Shanghai Initiative for Science" at the meeting, which aims to promote science to advance with the times, consult for the benefit of the world, and cooperate and share, and calls on the government, science and technology circles, industry, and The think tank community and other relevant parties have joined hands to build a global scientific community and jointly promote the rapid innovative development of this discipline.
Scientology is a science about science and technology, dedicated to studying the development laws of science and scientific activities, thereby promoting the formulation of science and technology policies, the improvement of scientific research management, and the harmonious development of science and technology and society. After the reform and opening up, with the support and advocacy of the older generation of scientists such as Qian Xuesen and Qian Sanqiang, science once became an "explicit science" used to guide scientific research and practical activities.
In recent years, many countries have begun to pay more attention to science. A number of projects dedicated to funding science have been established one after another, many science forums and conferences have appeared one after another, and a number of new institutions dedicated to the study of science have been announced.
The Shanghai Institute of Science jointly released the "Shanghai Initiative for Science" with guests attending the meeting.
Why is this scientific discipline experiencing a renaissance? The "Science Shanghai Initiative" points out: First of all, it is due to changes in science and technology and the development of new research methods. The in-depth integration of new generation information technology, energy, materials and biotechnology has promoted the accelerated development of a new round of scientific and technological changes, and has given rise to new scientific paradigms and scientific research organization models. The increasing digitization of scientific research activities, coupled with the rapid development of artificial intelligence, is promoting the emergence of new scientific methodologies.
The revival of science in the new era also stems from the more complex interaction between science and the external environment. The increasingly complex relationship between science and politics, economy, culture and other fields has triggered a series of new questions that urgently need to be answered by science.
Shanghai is an important starting point for Chinese science. In 1980, the Shanghai Institute of Science was established, becoming the earliest science research institute in China and has always been a research center for science in China. Today, the science conference hosted by the Shanghai Institute of Science provides an opportunity to re-examine science.
"There are many issues worthy of scientific study, such as the issue of 'responsible innovation'." Alan Owen, professor of the Organization Department of Copenhagen Business School, said in his speech that the goals of technological innovation should be combined with larger social development goals to promote Science and technology serve the sustainable development of mankind. However, currently, various scientific and technological innovation rankings released by research institutions do not incorporate social development goals, which is not conducive to promoting "responsible innovation."
The guests at the meeting unanimously praised "Science in the New Era".
Mu Rongping, director of the Center for Innovation and Development of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chairman of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology Policy, agreed with the Danish scholar’s views. He believed that scientific research should pay attention to the four values of scientific and technological innovation—scientific value and technological value. , social value, cultural value. “If researchers think about these four values before choosing a topic, the difficulty of transforming subsequent scientific and technological achievements may be much reduced.”
Mu Rongping said that this year marks the 10th anniversary of Shanghai’s establishment of an international science and technology innovation center, and science has great potential in building a science and technology innovation center. When scientific experts study innovation policies, they should pay attention to the capacity building of the innovation system and think about how to push this regional capacity building to the front end of the scientific and technological innovation chain and make it more systematic. In this regard, the layout and operation of large science facilities in the Zhangjiang Comprehensive National Science Center are worthy of study. The Zhangjiang Scientific Facility Cluster provides strong support for basic research and original innovation. In the future, it should produce an increasingly large system effect, promote interdisciplinary and cross-field cooperative research, and cultivate strategic emerging industries and future industries.
