According to reports, the "Monitoring Report on the Innovation Capacity of China's General Universities 2016" released by the Ministry of Science and Technology on October 9 showed that as of 2015, the full-time equivalent of R&D personnel in Chinese universities was 355,000 person-years, which was 355,000 per year compared with 2006. grew by 46.7%, ranking first in the world.
According to the report, data show that in 2015, the total amount of horizontal scientific research funding received by universities exceeded 35 billion yuan, and the direct transaction volume of scientific and technological achievements exceeded 2 billion yuan. Patent applications and grants are growing rapidly. The number of patent authorizations in colleges and universities was 136,000, of which the number of invention patent authorizations reached 57,000, more than one-fifth of the national total and 9.2 times that of 10 years ago.
Among the 1,762 universities surveyed, 573 universities reported that they had established specialized institutions for the transformation and diffusion of technological achievements, and 312 universities reported that they had established specialized websites for the transformation and diffusion of technological achievements. From 2006 to 2015, the number of technology transfer contracts signed by universities as sellers in the technology market increased steadily, reaching 57,000 in 2015.
Experts said that under the guidance and promotion of national policies, my country's ordinary universities have shifted from scale expansion to connotation development, and the comprehensive strength of scientific and technological innovation has rapidly improved, especially in the fields of innovation capacity building, innovative talent training, and scientific and technological achievement production. The changes in output and conversion are particularly obvious.
I hope that the technological research and development of Chinese universities can continue to promote the progress and development of Chinese science and technology!