Recently, a closed-door seminar on "Advantages and Challenges of Private Enterprises Participating in Scientific and Technological Innovation" hosted by Xinhua News Agency Lookout Think Tank was held in Beijing, and the participating experts offered suggestions and suggestions for private enterprises to actively participate in scientific and technological innovation, participate in the development of new quality productive forces, and promote high-quality development. Experts believe that private enterprises have the advantages of facing market competition and being good at application and transformation in scientific and technological innovation, and have played an important role in promoting digital intelligence technology and developing the digital economy, and are an important part of accelerating the formation of new quality productivity and enhancing new momentum for development.
Give full play to the advantages of scientific and technological innovation of private enterprises.
At present, in the great changes unseen in a century, scientific and technological innovation is the hand that chokes the throat of fate. Not long ago, the first economic work conference will be "scientific and technological innovation to lead the construction of a modern industrial system" as the primary task of the new year's economic work plan, looking back on the previous years of the meeting is the first time, released an important signal to put scientific and technological innovation at the core of the country's overall development.
At the same time, the first economic work conference once again gave a clear direction for the development of private enterprises. The meeting further proposed to promote the development and growth of private enterprises, implement a number of measures in market access, factor acquisition, fair law enforcement, rights and interests protection, etc., and once again emphasized the adherence to the "two unwavering".
In the view of the experts, scientific and technological innovation is the core of the bone marrow of private enterprises. Without scientific and technological innovation, it is impossible for private enterprises to become bigger and stronger, impossible to develop with high quality, and impossible to occupy a place in the fierce global competition.
Zhan Wenlong, a member of the Social Construction Committee of the 14th National People's Congress, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a nuclear physicist, believes that scientific and technological innovation must solve the problem of being out of touch with the economy. Even in the field of basic scientific research, researchers need to be "grounded" and consider a certain amount of economics when doing research.
Zhan Wenlong said that scientific and technological innovation should be oriented to the main battlefield of the national economy, and economic factors and market competitiveness should be considered at the beginning, and this value orientation should run through the entire research ideas and technical routes. In the digital field represented by artificial intelligence, private technology enterprises can combine the needs of rich scenarios and have unique advantages to develop technologies and industries.
Private enterprises are selected by the market, and only by maintaining innovative enterprises can they survive. Hu Zhijian, former president of the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology Development Strategy and vice chairman of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology Policy, believes that private enterprises have inherent innovation advantages. In order for private technology enterprises to become bigger and stronger, they need to experience continuous competition and elimination, and they need to continuously reduce transaction costs and allow innovation to fail.
Boost confidence and continue to support the innovation of private enterprises.
The proportion of the private economy in China's economy continues to increase, and it has become a new force in promoting Chinese-style modernization and an indispensable and important foundation for high-quality development. Experts at the meeting believed that private enterprises should be based on their own characteristics, give full play to their own strengths, adhere to innovation and continue to produce world-leading scientific and technological miracles, and develop the private economy into an important part of the national innovation system.
Enterprises are the main body of scientific and technological innovation, and the role of private enterprises in scientific and technological innovation cannot be ignored. According to data from the State Intellectual Property Office, by the end of 2021, the total number of domestic and foreign valid patents of the top 500 private enterprises in China was 633922, an increase of 5360%, of which 499265 are valid domestic patents, an increase of 2825%, and 134657 for internationally valid patents. The top two private enterprises in terms of the number of patents and invention patents are Huawei and Tencent, each with more than 4,500 patents.
In 2022, the number of patent applications filed by private enterprises in China has reached 1.48 million, a year-on-year increase of 174%；The number of invention patent applications of private enterprises reached 4750,000 pieces, a year-on-year increase of 197%。
In terms of R&D investment, the three companies with the largest R&D investment among China's private enterprises in 2022 are Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba, and the total R&D investment of these three companies accounts for nearly 7% of the country's total R&D expenditure. In the global enterprise rankings, all three companies ranked in the top 20 in terms of R&D investment.
More and more Chinese private enterprises are strengthening applied basic research and exploring layout and planning in the field of cutting-edge science and technology. Huawei has ranked first in the number of patents in the 5G field for many years, and has the largest number of key core technology patentsThe number of Tencent patent applications exceeded 660,000 patents, second only to Google in the global Internet industry, more than 10,000 artificial intelligence patents, and a laboratory focusing on quantum computing, next-generation robot research and other ......
In response to the issue of further boosting the confidence in the development of private enterprises, the experts at the meeting believed that they should always adhere to the "two unwavering" and "three unchanged", and always regard private entrepreneurs as their own people, and the positive effect is obvious. The next step is to study and implement the spirit of the first economic conference, first establish and then break, and support the reform more boldly, to ensure that the policy is "effective", "easy to use" and "usable", and strive to solve the deep-seated obstruction that plagues the development of the private economy.
Actively act to accelerate the formation of new quality productivity.
* The Economic Work Conference proposed to promote industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, especially to promote new industries, new models and new kinetic energy with disruptive technologies and cutting-edge technologies, and to develop new quality productivity. The core of new quality productivity is innovation. Private enterprises have contributed more than 70 percent of the technological innovation achievements and can make great achievements in accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces.
Experts at the meeting said that enterprises, including private enterprises, are the most dynamic subjects of scientific and technological innovation, important participants in the development of new quality productivity, and will become a powerful promoter of new quality productivity. It is of great significance to develop the digital economy, accelerate the development of artificial intelligence, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries with digital intelligence technology, and form new quality productivity.
In Hu Zhijian's view, the current status of private enterprises in the national innovation system and modern industrial system is becoming increasingly prominent, and all parties pay attention to and place high hopes on it. Private enterprises fully participate in market competition, have natural innovation advantages, are good at transforming and applying scientific research achievements, and understand the market and application scenarios.
In view of the direction of scientific and technological innovation of private enterprises, Hu Zhijian believes that in the context of the increasingly fierce international game, large private enterprises should have a long-term vision, look at the world, have the courage to take responsibility, seize the opportunity of scientific and technological innovation, and seize the strategic commanding heights of informatization. We will continue to work hard in the fields of digital economy and artificial intelligence, promote digital intelligence technology to empower all walks of life, and accelerate the development of new quality productivity.
In response to the problem of creating an innovative atmosphere for private enterprises, Chen Xiaodong, a researcher at the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and deputy director of the China Industrial and Enterprise Competitiveness Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that "breaking the four onlys" and "setting new standards" should be carried out simultaneously, and "stabilizing the team" and "activating force" should be accelerated. As long as it is conducive to stimulating the innovation motivation of scientific researchers, the transformation of original and subversive scientific and technological achievements, and the promotion of national innovation and progress, the scientific and technological innovation behavior of leading enterprises should be strongly supported. The road of innovation is full of thorns, and it has always been a "life of nine deaths", and "failure" is also the only way to "success". In this regard, relevant departments and market parties should try their best to create an atmosphere of innovation for private enterprises and establish a fault-tolerant trial-and-error mechanism.