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The program is an important measure to lay out future industries and aims to generate disruptive technologies to drive socioeconomic development.
Universities are seen as key players in implementing this pilot program. The science parks will be built based on existing university science parks, relying on their dominant academic fields.
This new model will accumulate talented individuals, technology, funds, data and other innovative factors, and increase collaboration and dialogue across industry sectors.
Local governments and leading enterprises will be invited to join this program, building platforms to advance the commercialization of research results and the integration of industry and education.
To ensure the quality of establishment, universities are required to deepen the pilot reforms of relevant systems and mechanisms to improve the industrialization level of research achievements, such as granting researchers the ownership or long-term rights of using their research achievements, and establishing specialized technology transfer institutes in campuses.
It is expected to lead the upgrading and development of university science parks, and create a future industrial innovation and incubation hub in selected regions after years of efforts, according to the pilot program.