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Research made real at Xi’an tech transfer market (2)

By ED ZHANG (People's Daily Online)    13:42, September 06, 2013
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The Xi’an Technology Resources Market is an important place for college-graduated young entrepreneurs to shop for ideas and inventions, Huang said.

The service was jointly founded by the Xi’an bureau of science and technology and the zone.

It is commissioned to facilitate the commercialization of achievements at universities and research bodies, and above all, transfer the research to people who can eventually bring derivative products to consumers or end users.

Its service covers four main areas:

n To provide an online and off-line platform for buyers and sellers to share information and negotiate with each other before they make their choice and complete the transfer.

n To arrange for member companies, especially small ones, to swap talents and share expensive research equipment.

n To provide advice to entrepreneurs about government policies and ways to protect intellectual property rights.

n To host forums for companies to share managerial experience with each other.

In the last few years, the tech market has helped Xi’an lift its ranking in the volume of technology transfers from seventh in 2010 in the nation to third place in 2012, following only Beijing and Shanghai.

The deals it processed were worth more than 30 billion yuan ($4.9 billion) in 2012, Huang said.

Figures about the business are reliable because each deal is registered by the seller with proof of the buyer’s payment before it is awarded a tax break by the local government, Huang explained.

It also helps the local government distribute incentives to technology buyers.

With more multinational corporations beginning to invest in Central and West China, Huang said Xi’an’s competitive edge will stand out even more because of the skill level in its many small technology firms.

Large firms will find themselves working together with small cooperators who are far more skilled and professionally disciplined than those elsewhere, he said.

There are more than 100 large R&D facilities in the hi-tech zone along with research activities from 210 universities and research bodies.

The tech market has made Xi’an not just a university town or an industrial city, but a city with a culture of entrepreneurs buying inventions.

“Ours is a working system,” Huang said.

TIMELINE

March 1991: Xi’an Hi-Tech Zone established.

2007-08: Municipal government refines the plan for the hi-tech zone and proposes to build a better system for technology transfers.

December 2008: Xi’an Hi-Tech Zone listed as a national-level industrial zone for new technologies.

March 2009: Decides to build a top-class technology park in 2010.

April 2011: Xi’an Technology Resources Market launched.

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(Editor:YaoChun、Zhang Qian)

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