The transformation of scientific and technological achievements refers to the subsequent testing, development, application and popularization of scientific and technological achievements with practical value produced by scientific research and technological development in order to improve the productivity level until new products, new processes and new materials are formed and new industries are developed.
The concept of transformation of scientific and technological achievements can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. The transformation of scientific and technological achievements in a broad sense should include the application of various achievements, the improvement of workers' quality, the strengthening of skills and the increase of efficiency. Because science and technology are the primary productive forces, and productive forces include people, production tools and labor objects. Therefore, the potential productivity of science and technology should be transformed into direct productivity, and finally it can be realized by improving people's quality and improving production tools and labor objects. In this sense, the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in a broad sense refers to the transfer of scientific and technological achievements from the place of creation to the place of use, which will increase the quality, skills or knowledge of workers in the place of use, improve labor tools, improve labor efficiency and develop the economy. In a narrow sense, the transformation of scientific and technological achievements actually refers to the transformation of technological achievements, that is, innovative technological achievements are transferred from scientific research units to production departments, thereby increasing new products, improving processes, improving efficiency and ultimately improving the economy. What we usually call the transformation of scientific and technological achievements mostly refers to this type of transformation, and the transformation rate of scientific and technological achievements refers to the ratio of the number of applications of technological achievements to the total number of technological achievements.