East China’s Jiangsu province has attached great importance to solving the difficulties of innovation last year in a bid to break the bottleneck of scientific research management mechanism and consolidating the innovation foundation of high-quality development.
This small instrument is no bigger than a palm but its value is up to several million yuan because it is the world's first "nano-operator" that can automatically measure chips at the micro-nano scale, and can move atoms smaller than nanometers.
Project director Chen Kelun was quoted as saying that it took only six months for the equipment to get into a reality from the period of creative design. Six months ago, the Institute of Micro-Nano Automation of the Jiangsu Institute of Industrial Technology was established in Suzhou. Chen Kelun joined this institute under the attraction of the new mechanism that promotion is not made in accordance with seniority. Though he is one of the post-90s, he is able to take care of a department on his own and claim the right to the shares and the ownership of the research results and the maximum income right.
In the past year, Jiangsu firmly grasped the requirements of the "two-wheel drive" of "scientific innovation and institutional innovation" proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, and seized the most concerned, most direct and realistic institutional and institutional problems of various innovation entities by releasing 30 policies of the scientific and technological reforms to fire the first shot of comprehensively deepening the reform of the science and technology system.
Specific measures include decentralization of vertical budget adjustment rights, increase of scientific research results conversion incentives to 70%, granting scientific research personnel horizontal management rights, and tolerance failure and compensation mechanisms. The 30 reform policies have turned out to be the incentive for to stimulate scientific research and innovation and create vitality.
Through the reform of the science and technology system, Jiangsu has gradually realized an important upgrade of the comprehensive deepening of the reform.
The Provincial Industrial Technology Research Institute, for example, has made innovations in its mechanism. New R&D institutions have sprung up across the province, as is evidenced by the launch of 42 new research institutes.
The provincial technology property rights trading market has nurtured a team of professional and technical managers and set up 15 local sub-centers.
The province's technology contract turnover exceeded 110 billion yuan while the experiences of comprehensive pilot reform of the science and technology innovation system in Changshu and Hai'an is fully promoted across the province to encourage the exploration of the development of cohesive innovation at the county level.
（source：ourjiangsu.com）
