Recently, the Ministry of Education issued the "Several Opinions on Strengthening Organized Scientific Research in Universities and Promoting High-level Self-reliance and Self-reliance", making arrangements to promote universities to give full play to the advantages of the new national system and strengthen organized scientific research. On September 27, Lei Chaozi, director of the Department of Science, Technology and Information Technology of the Ministry of Education, said at a press conference that strengthening organized scientific research in colleges and universities means turning the past of "doing whatever you want and can do" into "what the country needs". What to do? Really organize colleges and universities to accomplish things and achieve great things, and provide strong support for scientific and technological progress and economic and social development, especially industrial development.
Lei Chaozi said that we must firmly grasp the fundamental goal of serving the needs of the country. Strengthening organized scientific research in universities means promoting universities to regard serving the country's strategic needs as their highest pursuit and fundamental goal, and on the basis of continuing to carry out high-level free exploration, accelerate the transformation of scientific research paradigms and organizational models, and build national strategic scientific and technological capabilities.
He said that the key to strengthening organized scientific research in universities is to coordinate and promote the three combinations. First, we must combine strengthening organized scientific research with strengthening the construction of national strategic scientific and technological capabilities. Organized scientific research is an important form for universities to institutionalize scientific and technological innovation and serve national strategic needs systematically. Strengthening organized scientific research is an inevitable choice for universities to strengthen the construction of national strategic scientific and technological capabilities. The second is to combine the strengthening of organized scientific research with the promotion of "double first-class" construction. Scientific and technological innovation is an important aspect of the "double first-class" construction, and it is necessary to achieve the "double first-class" construction goal while serving the country. The third is to combine strengthening organized scientific research with deepening the reform of science and technology systems and mechanisms in universities. To strengthen organized scientific research, we must be guided by problems and needs and driven by major tasks, drive the reform of scientific research evaluation mechanisms, innovations in resource allocation methods, and changes in scientific research organization models, maximize the release of talent synergy, stimulate innovation potential, improve innovation efficiency, and promote Scientific and technological innovation in universities in the new era has achieved greater results.
Lei Chaozi said that the next step is to strengthen the construction of national strategic scientific and technological capabilities, accelerate major breakthroughs in goal-oriented basic research, and accelerate major breakthroughs in key core technologies that are urgently needed for national strategies.
In the past ten years, the number of patent transfer and licensing contracts in universities has exceeded 65,000, and the amount of patent conversion has increased from 820 million yuan to 8.89 billion yuan, an increase of nearly ten times. Lei Chaozi said that to strengthen organized scientific research, we must improve the transfer and transformation capabilities of scientific and technological achievements and serve the transformation and upgrading of the industry.