Technology transfer rate refers to the follow-up test, development, application and popularization of scientific and technological achievements with practical value produced by scientific research and technological development, which accounts for the proportion of the total scientific and technological achievements in forming new products, new processes, new materials and developing new industries.
Some experts believe that the transformation rate of scientific and technological achievements is a concept in the era of planned economy. Many experts said: "There is no unified calculation caliber" on the question of how much and how to calculate the "transformation rate of scientific and technological achievements" in China.
Regarding who should count the conversion rate of scientific and technological achievements, Liu Cheng, a professor at University of Science and Technology Beijing, said that the most authoritative statistical department should be the Intellectual Property Office, which counts patent transaction data and estimates the conversion rate. Both the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission should take the data released by the Intellectual Property Office as the standard.
From the perspective of the Intellectual Property Office, the conversion rate of achievements is the turnover rate of intellectual property rights. When counting the conversion rate of scientific and technological achievements, the Intellectual Property Office generally adopts the method of sampling survey.
Improvement:
It is good to emphasize the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, but we must never return to the era of heroes based on the transformation rate of achievements, let alone simplify the complex problem from science to innovation into a "transformation rate" index, but establish a reasonable and scientific index system.
First of all, we should reform the assessment mechanism, enhance scientists' sense of integrity, and don't always stare at achievements and patents in assessment. What we really want to pay attention to is the effectiveness of the results to reality. Secondly, it is necessary to strengthen market constraints and make scientific research face the market and seamlessly connect with the market.
The transformation of scientific and technological achievements is the transaction, development and utilization of intellectual property assets under the market economy environment, and profit-seeking is the fundamental driving force for technology transfer between supply and demand sides. In the active and efficient technology transfer under the market mechanism, "small profit" is the supply and demand side of technology transfer, and "big profit" is the economic and social development of China and even the whole world.