Special Action to Intelligently Empower SMEs in Scientific and Technological Achievements

On May 22,2023, Ten departments, including Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Science and Technology, jointly issued the Special Action for the Intelligent Empowerment of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises through scientific and technological achievements (2023-2025) (the “Special Action”), which would take effect on May 22, 2023. The Special Action plan proposes to improve project results database and enterprise demand database, improve intelligent empowerment platform system, select a group of high-quality scientific and technological achievements evaluation as well as transfer and transformation institutions, and promote implementation and industrialization of a batch of advanced and applicable scientific and technological achievements by small and medium-sized enterprises (“SMEs”) by 2025.

The key tasks specified in the Special Action plan include promoting the “normalized” aggregation of research results, implementing “precise” connectivity between supply and demand, and accelerating the “systematic” layout of services. The Special Action Plan also specifically calls for increasing openness and sharing of scientific and technological achievements data, continuously carrying out the action of “deep intelligence empowerment”, promoting cooperation between small, medium and large-sized enterprises, and strengthening collaboration between industry, academia, and research institutions.