Science and technology intermediary service refers to the trading, brokerage, consulting, evaluation, agency, incubation, entrepreneurial service and other activities of science and technology enterprises directly related to scientific research, technology development and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Science and technology intermediary service institutions are the main body of the science and technology intermediary service system, which mainly refers to the institutions that provide professional services for the society, such as technology diffusion, achievement transformation, science and technology evaluation, innovative resource allocation, innovative decision-making, management consulting and so on.
The narrow sense of science and technology intermediary mainly includes: productivity promotion center, innovation service center (incubator), engineering technology research center, science and technology information center, science and technology consulting institution, technology market, technology property right trading institution and their activities.
In a broad sense, science and technology intermediaries also include organizations and their activities that do not provide technical innovation services as their main business, but provide consulting, information, evaluation, certification, supervision, inspection, accounting, auditing, law, personnel training, decision support, financing, investment and other services necessary for technological innovation.
Development of Science and Technology Intermediaries in China;
It germinated in the planned economy system, grew up after the reform and opening up, and developed rapidly with the adjustment of economic structure and the rise of new technology industries.
The earliest scientific and technological intermediaries can be traced back to the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the establishment of the concept of "technology commercialization". Some scientific and technological personnel in China broke through the shackles of scientific and technological traditions and established private scientific and technological consulting companies with scientific and technological services and consulting as their main business.
1984 and 1985, the central government successively made the "decision on economic system reform" and "decision on scientific and technological system reform", which made it clear that the relationship between science and technology and scientific and technological intermediaries in China is closely related and complementary. In addition, China has issued a series of supporting policies conducive to the development of science and technology, which has made the number and scale of science and technology intermediaries have developed to a certain extent.