By Xinyi Li, EDITOR

On June 10, eight alliances, including Chongqing Strategic Alliance for Technological Innovation of Electric Power Industry and Chongqing Strategic Alliance for Technology Innovation of Technology Transfer Service, were approved to establish, according to Chongqing Science and Technology Bureau (CSTB). It will promote advancement in key industry technologies, thus achieving high-quality development for the city.

Led by enterprises, colleges, universities or research institutes, the eight alliances involve eight sectors including electric power, technology transfer service, big data service, Industrial Internet, green manufacturing, smart energy, virtual reality (VR) and electronics. They are expected to play a significant role in integrating innovative resources for industry-university-research institute cooperation and enhancing technological innovation capability.

Eight alliances were approved to establish to promote the advance in common industry key technologies, achieving high-quality development

Chongqing Strategic Alliance for Technological Innovation of Industrial Internet, for instance, is led by Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CUPT), an undertaker of several national- and provincial-level projects in the Industrial Internet, and a holder of a series of core key technologies with independent intellectual property rights and 65 granted invention patents (including 8 under PCT). CUPT has also led and participated in the formulation of a range of relevant international and national standards.

The scheme for setting up those alliances will be detailed to establish regular operation and incentive mechanisms, to strengthen their roles in formulating technical standards and industrial technology roadmaps, and to accelerate technology transfer and achievements transformation and innovative team building. Those efforts will also contribute to deepening the industry-university-research institute cooperation and close cooperation among enterprises in various industry chains and sizes and facilitating the deep integration of the industry chain and innovation chain. “We also encourage them to undertake major technological programs and tasks at the state and municipal level and to accelerate the implementation of innovation-driven development strategies, and thus to play an exemplary role in promoting S&T innovation,” said a head from CSTB.

Currently, there are 18 municipal-level strategic alliances for technological innovation in the high-tech field of Chongqing.

Source: Chongqing Daily News