Policy Solutions in the Dilemma of Technology Transfer: System Design and Practical Reflection
Chu Ruhui1,2, Shen Yongdong1, Qi Chengshuang2,3
1.School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China 2.National Science Park, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310063, China 3.School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Abstract:Against the backdrop of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, leading the development of new productive forces with scientific and technological innovation has become one of the important tasks of China’s economic work in 2025. As an important bridge between scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, the transformation of scientific and technological achievements is not only an important means to accelerate the development of new productive forces at present, but also an urgent need to enhance the overall efficiency of the national innovation system. However, China is facing some difficulties in the process of carrying out the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. For example, the output of scientific and technological achievements is large, but the transformation efficiency is low, and the paradigm of outcome transformation driven by scenarios is gradually replacing the traditional supply-oriented linear paradigm. Leading the new paradigm of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements with policies, breaking through the difficulties in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and accelerating the innovative cycle of the closed loop of the transformation system of scientific and technological achievements have become urgent research tasks that need to be carried out.Based on this, this paper engages in a dialogue with institutional theory and innovation system theory. Combining the methods of theoretical deduction, policy research, and case analysis, it completes the system design of the policies for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements from five dimensions: policy content, policy inspection, policy coordination, policy effectiveness, and policy flywheel effect. It systematically responds to key questions such as “what to do”, “how to do it”, “how well it is done”, “what results are achieved”, and “how to accelerate” in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. In terms of policy content design, it promotes the transformation of achievements by multiple action subjects throughout the entire life cycle. In terms of policy coordination design, it strengthens the efficient coordination among various policy tools and different departments, and improves the connectivity among all links of policy design. In terms of policy inspection design, it conducts incremental evaluations of policy effects in the short term, medium term, and long term, and promotes dynamic monitoring of effects and the rational allocation of resources. In terms of policy effectiveness design, it supports the high-quality transformation, incubation, and industrialization of achievements, and enhances the driving force of policy design for high-quality development. In terms of policy flywheel effect design, it forms a closed loop of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements led by enterprises and driven by scenarios, and enhances the endogenous driving force for innovative transformation. In addition, through policy research, this paper demonstrates how local policies support the A University Science Park in carrying out the practice of transforming scientific and technological achievements, and further elaborates on the important role of systematic policy design in promoting the work of transforming scientific and technological achievements and improving the effectiveness of such transformation. The innovations of this paper lie in the following aspects: In terms of academic content innovation, it breaks through the single level of policy research, systematically analyzes the practical problems of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in China, and proposes a policy system framework for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements covering five dimensions. The research responds to the new requirements of the changes in innovative paradigms such as scenario-driven transformation for the design of the policy system, and promotes the work of transforming scientific and technological achievements to break through the traditional path dependence and accelerate the innovative cycle. In terms of academic perspective innovation, it expands the research on innovation from the institutional perspective, fills the theoretical gap regarding how policies shape the innovation ecosystem and affect the development of innovative subjects, and provides useful theoretical inspiration for accelerating the innovation of multiple subjects in the application scenarios of complex technologies from the perspectives of institutions and innovation. In terms of research methods, by combining theoretical deduction, policy research, and case analysis, and adopting a research paradigm of cross-validation with multiple methods, it effectively bridges the gap between theoretical research and policy practice.
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