And then to 100", new quality productivity leaves the laboratory and Shanghai accelerates the realization of "0 to 1"

How to overcome the obstacles from laboratory to market and improve the conversion rate of scientific and technological achievements? During a survey in Shanghai, the reporter found that the city is further loosening the shackles of scientific researchers through reforms, accelerating the marketization of scientific and technological achievements, and promoting new productivity out of the laboratory.

Results empower scientists to accelerate productivity out of the lab

When the reporter met young scientist Ma Lin, he was busy studying the mass production process of a photonic interconnect chip. At first glance, this chip looks like ordinary glass only one millimeter thick, but under a microscope, it looks like something else.

Ma Lin, a researcher at the Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University: There are many channels that can guide light, and these channels appear to be a plane. In fact, it is a three-dimensional intersection, and there is no interaction between each one. .

After integrating it with a computing power chip, it can greatly increase computing power in fields such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence. This research result can be transformed into the market, thanks to the 20 million yuan in venture capital that Ma Lin received not long ago.

Ma Lin had missed such investment opportunities several times in the past. Previously, through reforms, scientific researchers could already have partial ownership of their results, but that was jointly owned by the unit and the researchers. This complex structure often discourages venture capital funds.

Ma Lin, a researcher at the Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University: It means that your house is not 100% yours, and when you want to sell it or dispose of it, there is nothing you can do about it.

The change comes from a series of new measures to transform scientific and technological achievements implemented in Shanghai. One of the key ones is to allow scientific researchers to enjoy full ownership of scientific and technological achievements on the premise of clarifying the unit rights and interests such as the proportion of profits from the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, helping scientific researchers to invest their achievements in start-up companies, attracting social capital, and better transforming their achievements.

Liang Bing, deputy director of the Innovation Service Department of the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission: I hope our scientists will have greater autonomy to start their own businesses, so that our social capital and industry can more smoothly carry the results of scientists. This is also a very important support for cultivating new productivity.

The changes on Ma Lin's patent wall demonstrate the dividends that reform has brought to scientific researchers.

Ma Lin, a researcher at the Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Before the authorization, the patentee was Shanghai Jiao Tong University, but now it has been changed to me, and then I invested in Shanghai Optical Textile Technology Co., Ltd. as a patent shareholder.

With financial support, Ma Lin not only expanded his office and recruited new employees, he was also busy purchasing femtosecond lasers for the production of photonic interconnect chips in the past two days. The first batch of samples will be delivered in the second half of the year.

Ma Lin, a researcher at the Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Such a policy indeed allows us to carry out related work with a free hand.

Now, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, researchers like Ma Lin have founded 94 companies, which have attracted a total of more than 6 billion yuan in social capital and are valued at about 37 billion yuan.

Zero-distance service helps scientific researchers solve the problem of "not being able to transfer"

Through a series of reforms, Shanghai is working hard to solve the problem of scientific researchers being unable to transfer. During the investigation, the reporter found that Shanghai is also looking for a solution to the problem of "not being able to transfer".

At the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, staff showed reporters a thick stack of documents. There are more than 250 questions and answers in it, ranging from policies and regulations to the steps of starting a company, answering various questions in the entire chain of transformation of scientific and technological achievements.

Liang Bing, deputy director of the Innovation Service Department of the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission: In the past few months, we have conducted surveys and found that a large number of scientific researchers actually have achievements that are “untransferable”, and our relevant departments have also been responsible for the transformation of the results. There are still certain differences in policy understanding and policy services, so we formed this practical question and answer.

Liang Bing told reporters that in addition to policy service packages, they also set up "training camps" for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, opened "transformation clinics" and "transformation schools" to provide precise policy guidance.

So how well has these policy guidance been delivered? The reporter came to Shanghai's only "Innovation Source" functional area - "Big Zero Bay". It is close to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, East China Normal University and other universities, and has gathered more than 4,000 hard technology companies. It is an important incubation area to achieve "0 to 1, and then to 100".

CCTV reporter Tian Qiyong: In the past few days of research, we found such a sign in the "Big Zero Bay" where technology companies gather. In the past, the district science and technology committee was located in the centralized office area of ​​the district government. Why is this sign here?

Walking into the building, the reporter saw that administrative, scientific and technological innovation and talent service centers are gathered here. The Minhang District Science and Technology Commission moved here from the district government as a whole in May last year and became a key part of the one-stop service, in order to make the policy "Zero distance" from scientific researchers.

Xu Hui, deputy director of the Shanghai Minhang District Science and Technology Commission: As a service department of the government, we must come to our universities, our professors, scientific and technological enterprises and talents to provide "zero-distance" services.

Scientific researchers travel lightly, and scientific and technological achievements are implemented and blossomed at an accelerated pace

Use reform to solve the problem of scientific and technological achievements that cannot be transferred, and use services to solve the problem that scientific researchers have scientific and technological achievements but cannot transfer them. During the investigation, the reporter saw that a series of measures are encouraging scientific research units to transfer, and scientific researchers are willing to transfer, and are promoting the accelerated implementation of scientific and technological achievements.

During the reporter's investigation, a new innovation incubator was added to "Big Zero Bay". At the launch site, the reporter met young teacher Ma Daolin. Having just received all the rights granted for scientific research results, he couldn't wait to register the company and has been busy decorating it these days.

Ma Daolin, associate professor at the School of Marine, Marine and Architectural Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University: We are now able to go out into the market lightly and start a business. We are full of confidence and are rushing forward, so that our products can meet industry demand as soon as possible.

Ma Daolin told reporters that the new company really caught up with the good times. Not only do they enjoy support measures such as free offices in the "Big Zero Bay", but they also have dedicated personnel to solve policy and regulatory issues encountered during the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.

Technical transfer specialist Guo Chao was the one who helped Ma Daolin solve the problem. From policy consultation to process design, he organized everything clearly. There are already 17 commissioners like Guo Chao at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Zhu Xinyuan, Vice President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University: We will set up a special technical service team. The teachers only need to discuss some of their ideas with the industry and communicate with the technology transfer team. This technology transfer team will help them and assist them to solve these problems in the process of transforming scientific and technological achievements.

By handing over the transformation process to professionals, Ma Daolin was able to focus more on his scientific research. This technology of adding touch to robots is the focus of his current research.

Ma Daolin, associate professor at the School of Marine, Marine and Architectural Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University: For example, we have such a USB interface. After being touched by it, we can recognize the shape and logo on the USB, or touch some fabrics. This kind of fabrics We can reconstruct the surface texture at a very high density, so that the robot can truly feel our physical world and truly become intelligent.

Preliminary statistics show that in 2023, the total number of scientific and technological achievements transformation contracts for Shanghai universities, scientific research institutes, medical and health institutions and other scientific research institutions will increase by 27.2% year-on-year, and the contract value will increase by 24.4% year-on-year, which is helping to accelerate the scientific and technological achievements out of the laboratory and form new quality productive forces.