Reasons for the large number of patents and low quality

The phenomenon of low quality and high quantity of patents is related to the guidance of governments at all levels. In some places, too much attention is paid to the number of patents, and the award funds are even higher than the patent application, which leads to a false high number of patents to a certain extent, which violates the original intention of patent application. In addition, there are some patents that apply for professional titles, and the quality is also very worrying.

Local governments pay more attention to the number of patents than the quality, and some local governments also use the number of patents as the basis for awards. The problem of many patents and low quality needs to be changed urgently.

It needs to be thoroughly understood and fully implemented from the following aspects.

Follow the laws of scientific research and the needs of innovation and development, and promote the evaluation of scientific and technological talents to be oriented to innovation ability, quality, benefit and contribution. Practice shows that the evaluation system has the function of baton and weather vane, and what is evaluated will be obtained. For a long time, there have been some problems in the evaluation system of scientific and technological talents in China, such as unscientific evaluation standards and low socialization of evaluation. Quantitative indicators such as projects and funds, the number of papers, the number of patents, and the level of awards account for a large proportion, and the situation of "only papers, only hats, only titles, only academic qualifications, and only awards" is outstanding.

This often leads to the phenomenon of many patents, but poor quality and low market acceptance; There are many papers, less originality and more "follow-up" research; Wait a minute. It is necessary to improve the evaluation system of scientific and technological talents based on adhering to academic integrity and oriented by innovation ability, quality, benefit and contribution, and give full play to the roles of multiple evaluation subjects such as peers, users, market and society to effectively reflect the originality, scientific value, economic value and social benefit of scientific and technological achievements.