The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Decision on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese Modernization, which was deliberated and adopted by the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, emphasizes strengthening the overall planning and strength organization of innovation resources and promoting the integrated development of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. Science and technology are the primary productive forces, and industry is the cornerstone of the national economy. Scientific and technological innovation deeply empowers high-quality industrial development, and industrial development provides transformation carriers and application scenarios for scientific and technological innovation. To promote the integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, we must insist on innovation leading development, grasp the foundation, key and way of their integration, and build a solid material and technological foundation for Chinese modernization.

The integration of the two is the general trend.

Scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation complement each other. The deep integration of the two is an inevitable requirement for accelerating the cultivation of new quality productive forces, and is of great significance for promoting high-quality development, enhancing the safety and resilience of the industrial chain, and building a strong country in science and technology.

The inherent requirement of turning to a high-quality development stage. At present, China is in a critical period of turning to a high-quality development stage, the production function has changed, the input kinetic energy of traditional factors such as labor and capital has weakened, and the constraints of resources and environment have been strengthened. It is very important to accelerate the cultivation of new growth kinetic energy led by scientific and technological innovation. At the same time, China has become the second largest economy in the world, and the "global OEM" model based on low-cost factors is unsustainable. It is an inevitable choice to promote the industry to climb to high-end and high value-added links with scientific and technological innovation. Promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation can play a leading role in innovation, improve total factor productivity and accelerate the pace of high-quality development.

An important way to cultivate new quality productivity. Scientific and technological innovation, as the core factor of productivity development, can greatly improve labor productivity and added value of products and form new quality productivity by improving technical level and research and development ability. Industrial innovation is an important link to transform scientific and technological achievements into actual productivity, which can enhance the "gold content" of the industry and enhance the overall competitiveness of the industrial chain. The deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation can timely apply scientific and technological innovation achievements to specific industries, transform and upgrade traditional industries, cultivate and expand emerging industries, plan and lay out future industries, and cultivate and develop new quality productivity.

Strategic choice to enhance the toughness of industrial chain. At present, the global industrial chain supply chain has been reconstructed rapidly, and some countries have built "small yards and high walls", which poses a severe challenge to the safety of China’s industrial chain. China’s industrial system is complete and large-scale, but the situation that key core technologies in some fields are controlled by people has not fundamentally changed. The deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation can help tackle key problems in important areas and core links, fill short-board links, strengthen the backup capability of multi-technology routes, and enhance the safety and resilience of the industrial chain.

The only way to build a powerful country through science and technology. After years of efforts, the overall level of science and technology in China has been greatly improved, but there are still problems such as insufficient independent innovation ability of enterprises and the urgent need to optimize the layout of scientific and technological innovation resources. At the same time, scientific and technological innovation has become the main battlefield of the international strategic game, and the competition around the commanding heights of science and technology is unprecedented fierce. Promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation will help to optimize the layout of national strategic scientific and technological forces, promote the industry to enhance its independent innovation ability in practice, continuously break through and breed new technologies, open up channels for mutual promotion between industrial strength and technological strength, and build a strong country in science and technology.

Grasp the direction of integration goal

Promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation aims at shaping new development momentum and new advantages, and enhancing leading, connecting, safety and recycling.

Original technological breakthrough forms the leading force of industrial innovation and development. Original technological breakthrough is the source of scientific and technological innovation. At present, the paradigm of scientific research has undergone profound changes, and international scientific and technological competition is moving forward to the original basis, which urgently requires us to solve key technical problems from the source and the bottom. To promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, we must continue to accumulate through basic research, and finally form a qualitative change from 0 to 1, achieve original technological breakthroughs, and promote the formation of a powerful driving force to lead high-quality development.

The innovation of scientific and technological achievements and industrial application are seamlessly connected. The new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation has accelerated its evolution, and the cycle from scientific and technological innovation to industrial application has been greatly shortened. China has made remarkable progress in the field of scientific and technological innovation, but the speed of transforming scientific and technological achievements into actual productive forces still needs to be accelerated. To promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, it is necessary to make scientific and technological achievements quickly move from the laboratory to the market and quickly transform them into new quality productivity.

A comprehensive breakthrough has been made in the "stuck neck" technology in the industrial field and its development links. China has the most complete industrial system in the world, but it faces the technical difficulties of "blocking the neck". Scientific and technological innovation must directly deal with the bottlenecks and challenges in industrial development, and promote the safe development of the industry with technological breakthroughs in important fields and key links. To promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation is to realize the transformation from dependence on imports to independent research and development in key core technology fields, such as integrated circuits, engines, CNC machine tools, industrial software, etc., significantly reduce dependence on foreign technology and improve the safety and resilience of the industrial chain.

Industrial development urges independent innovation to form a virtuous circle. Market demand driven by industrial development is an important source of innovation and an important way of technological progress. China is the most potential consumer market in the world, and the escalating industrial demand provides a super-large-scale market advantage for enterprise innovation. To promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation is to give full play to the advantages of ultra-large-scale market, explore multiple technical routes, accelerate technical iteration, open up a new track for industrial development, and form a virtuous circle of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.

Find the key path of fusion

Under the background of increasingly fierce global economic competition and rapid iteration of scientific and technological revolution, we should focus on "activating the main body, integrating layout, integrating empowerment, strengthening ties, and smoothing circulation" to continuously deepen the integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.

Integrate policy supply and stimulate the motivation of all kinds of innovation subjects. Focusing on original technologies and breakthroughs in key core technologies, we will adhere to overall planning, establish a mechanism for cultivating and expanding leading enterprises in science and technology, establish a reserve system for enterprise research and development, and guide leading enterprises in science and technology to participate in major national science and technology projects and key national research and development plans. Build a mechanism to promote the development and growth of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, actively develop venture capital, expand patient capital and attract social capital. We will improve the risk dispersion mechanism for tackling key technical problems, establish a policy system for science and technology insurance, and reduce the innovation threshold and risks of small and medium-sized enterprises in key areas.

Gather various forces to promote the integrated layout of Industry-University-Research. Focusing on the chain links of basic research, applied basic research, applied technology development, engineering verification or pilot test, and commercialization of technological achievements, we will improve the cooperation mechanism between universities, research institutes and enterprises, comprehensively improve the efficiency of collaborative innovation in Industry-University-Research, and guide the through transformation of scientific research achievements. Focus on the scientific and technological research objectives of key industrial chains, optimize the layout of scientific and technological resources of national laboratories, national scientific research institutions, high-level research universities and leading scientific and technological enterprises, promote the coordination between the central and local areas of scientific and technological innovation, coordinate the construction of various science and technology platforms, create a number of innovative consortia, and promote the precise docking and deep integration of industrial chains and innovation chain.

Improve industrial quality and efficiency, and promote scientific and technological innovation to fully empower. Empower the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries with scientific and technological innovation, and use the new generation of information technology to carry out all-round and full-chain transformation of traditional industries to improve the level of automation and intelligence. Empower emerging industries with scientific and technological innovation, strengthen innovation guidance, support key core technologies of emerging industries, and cultivate new technologies, new formats and new models. Empower the prospective layout of future industries with scientific and technological innovation, give full play to the leading role of original and subversive scientific and technological innovation in future industries, seize the commanding heights of science and technology, and cultivate future industrial clusters with international competitiveness.

Focus on market convergence and improve the innovative intermediary service system. Clarify the status and role of innovative intermediary service institutions, and promote their professional, networked and large-scale development. Establish diversified capital channels, encourage social capital to invest in the construction of innovative intermediary service institutions through financial support and tax incentives, and promote the docking of science and technology with industry and capital with demand. Through the combination of policy guidance and market mechanism, we will strengthen the construction of technical managers and build an efficient, professional and reliable innovation intermediary service system to provide support for the integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.

Focus on chain integration and promote a virtuous circle of science and technology industry. Focusing on the development needs of differentiated industries, we will promote innovation chain to extend to the industrial chain, put the foothold of R&D innovation on industrial optimization and upgrading, and promote the one-way promotion from scientific and technological innovation to industrial innovation to two-way mutual promotion. Build a platform linking innovation chain and industrial chain, support new R&D institutions to directly connect technology and demand by means of "horse racing system", vigorously promote linkage modes such as "entrepreneurs give questions, scientists answer questions" and "scientists give technology and entrepreneurs products", deepen the reform of the transformation mechanism of scientific and technological achievements, realize the interaction and intercommunication of innovative resources, and realize a virtuous circle between science and technology and industry.

(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Industrial Economics and Technical Economics of China Macroeconomic Research Institute)