The school adheres to the mission of building an innovative country and actively participates in the construction of national and regional innovation systems. There are 8 national-level scientific research platforms such as the National Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, the National Engineering Laboratory of Grain Fermentation Technology and Technology, and the National Functional Food Engineering Technology Research Center, and 38 ministry-level and provincial-level platforms such as the Knitting Technology Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center. ;
There are 6 innovation and talent introduction bases ("111 Plan") of the Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs and 21 international joint laboratories;
Since the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", we have established 1,246 national-level projects, and hosted 10 national key R&D projects;
Won 10 National Science and Technology Progress Awards and Technological Invention Awards as the first completed unit, and won 2 Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Innovation Awards, There are 3 first prizes for outstanding scientific research achievements in colleges and universities and 4 first prizes for Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Awards.
Won 2 China Patent Gold Awards, 1 Silver Award, and 6 Excellence Awards. In 2016, it ranked 17th among national universities in the Chinese University Patent Award Ranking;
School Initiated and established the “Belt and Road” College Food Education Technology Alliance; now it has comprehensive cooperation with more than 50 cities across the country and many well-known enterprises such as COFCO Group and Bright Dairy; it has Jiangnan University Suqian Industrial Technology Research Institute, Jiangnan University (Yangzhou) ) Food Biotechnology Research Institute, Jiangnan University Wuxi Innovation Design Research Institute and 3 joint campus/institutes;
Jiangnan University Education Development Foundation was rated as a 5A-level university foundation.