The multiplier effect of amplifying the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation
2025-10-09
The new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is deepening, profoundly reshaping the global competitive landscape. China is currently at a critical stage of relying on technological innovation to drive high-quality development. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized the need to "solidly promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and assist in the development of new quality productivity". He proposed that "scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation are the basic paths for developing new quality productivity", providing guidance for a profound understanding of the inherent connection between scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and pointing out the practical direction for cultivating and developing new quality productivity. In recent years, China has solidly promoted the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. While achieving fruitful practical results, it has further deepened the understanding of the inherent logic of the integration of the two. On the one hand, technological innovation is the endogenous driving force for industrial innovation and development, as well as the core element for developing new quality productivity. Technological innovation can give birth to new industries, new models, and new driving forces, effectively promote key technological innovation, continuously increase the supply of high-quality technology, and provide impetus for the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the cultivation and growth of emerging industries, the layout and construction of future industries, and the improvement of modern industrial systems. On the other hand, industrial innovation can drive and stimulate technological innovation, and provide a key carrier for the value realization of technological innovation achievements. Only by timely applying technological innovation achievements to specific industries and industrial chains can we better test technological innovation achievements and promote accelerated technological iteration, thereby linking basic research, applied research, and achievement transfer and transformation, and enhancing the overall vitality of technological innovation. Currently, new technologies represented by artificial intelligence are accelerating iteration and evolution, and are having significant and far-reaching impacts on economic development, social progress, international political and economic patterns. The importance and urgency of further promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation are becoming more prominent. We must seize the opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, make practical efforts to stimulate the multiplier effect of deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, make good use of the advantages of China's super large market and complete industrial system, promote mutual promotion and progress between technological innovation and industrial innovation, better cultivate new quality productivity, and promote high-quality development. The multiplier effect of seeking to realize the value of technological innovation generally refers to the degree of chain reaction caused by the increase or decrease of a certain variable in economic activities, resulting in changes in the total economic output. Specifically, the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation mainly refers to the systematic coupling of the innovation chain with the industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain, achieving the two-way penetration and dynamic synergy of technology and industry, and thus generating nonlinear value-added effects. By optimizing the allocation of factors such as technology, funding, talent, and data, we aim to promote innovation throughout the entire process of research and development breakthroughs, achievement transformation, application promotion, and iterative upgrading. This will accelerate technological breakthroughs, double industrial value, and optimize the innovation ecosystem, resulting in a multiple or exponential amplification of innovation value in the dual empowerment of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. The multiplier effect of stimulating the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation can fundamentally open up the key channel for value transformation, promote the realization of the value of technological innovation, and transform scientific and technological achievements into tangible productivity. An important measure to enhance endogenous growth momentum. Our country's economy has shifted from a stage of high-speed growth to a stage of high-quality development. Relying on factor input and scale expansion to promote economic growth is no longer sustainable. It is urgent to break through traditional constraints with technological innovation and break through development bottlenecks with industrial innovation. The multiplier effect of stimulating the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation can promote the precise matching of technological innovation achievements with actual industrial needs, provide solid technical support for industrial upgrading, develop and strengthen new quality productivity, not only promote traditional industries to achieve "stock efficiency improvement" through technological transformation, but also stimulate new industries and new formats to form "incremental expansion" through technological breakthroughs, injecting stronger and more sustainable endogenous power into economic growth. Ensuring the independent and controllable nature of the industrial chain is an inevitable choice. In some key areas, China still faces the problem of being stuck. One important reason is the disconnect between technological innovation and industrial application. Many technological innovation achievements are still in the laboratory stage, lacking industry acceptance and testing, and significantly lagging behind in technological iteration. At the same time, the practical needs of industrial development are difficult to meet, which constrains the improvement of the industrial chain. Long term dependence on foreign technology can also pose security risks to the industrial chain. The multiplier effect of stimulating the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation can be achieved through a collaborative model of enterprise led research and development, and scientific research focusing on industries. This can promote technological innovation to focus on key areas and weak links in the construction of a modern industrial system, and increase targeted technological research and development efforts to provide technological support for ensuring the independent, safe, and controllable development of important industrial and supply chains. Building a fully independent system from technology research and development to industrialization, gradually creating an independent, reliable, safe and controllable industrial development ecology, and fundamentally enhancing the resilience and security level of the industrial and supply chains. The realistic path from "low-end manufacturing" to "high-end leadership". The multiplier effect generated by the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation is an important driving force for achieving advanced industrial foundations and modernization of industrial chains, and can provide support for China's transition from a manufacturing powerhouse to a manufacturing powerhouse. China has a complete industrial system, but some industries face the risk of "low-end lock-in" in the global industrial chain. It needs to be recognized that innovation is the primary driving force behind development. Whoever takes the lead in innovation will have the initiative to lead development. It is necessary to promote the transformation of industries from scale expansion to technology leadership and quality improvement. The multiplier effect of stimulating the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation can effectively break through the technological bottlenecks of key links in the industrial chain, promote the gradual elimination of "low-end lock-in" in the industry, and achieve the transformation from external dependence to independent and controllable; By deepening the integration of artificial intelligence and other technologies with the real economy, we can accelerate the intelligent transformation and digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, and achieve the transition from automation to intelligence; It can strengthen cross disciplinary and cross industry collaborative innovation, comprehensively enhance the comprehensive competitiveness and risk resistance of the industrial system. The dual empowerment of technology and industry has achieved significant results. After years of practice, the long-term accumulation of technological innovation has laid a solid foundation for industrial innovation, and the continuous promotion of industrial innovation has driven the iteration and upgrading of technological innovation. The dual empowerment of technological innovation and industrial innovation has made technological innovation no longer an isolated activity, and has shifted industrial innovation from simple scale expansion to quality and expansion. From the perspective of innovation accumulation, China's years of accumulated scientific and technological innovation have formed multidimensional advantages, effectively promoting industrial development. One is to increase research and development investment to enhance the supply of source technology. In 2024, the total R&D investment in society will exceed 3.6 trillion yuan, with a R&D investment intensity of 2.68%, of which basic research funding will increase by 10.5%. According to the 2024 China Patent Survey Report issued by the China National Intellectual Property Administration, 89.7% and 90.8% of enterprise invention patents in strategic emerging industries and future industries were obtained through R&D. The second is to enhance the efficiency of achievement transformation and promote the realization of value. In 2024, the industrialization rate of enterprise invention patents will be 53.3%, with an average industrialization income of 8.695 million yuan per patent. The third is to build an innovative ecosystem through full element collaboration. Relying on numerous National Engineering Research Center, national enterprise technology centers, combined with more than 200 million skilled talents, as well as financial funds, enterprise financing, social capital and other diversified financial ties, China has formed an innovative environment of "research and development platforms, transformation funds, and landing talents". From the perspective of industry feedback, it clarifies the direction and optimization path for technological innovation through industry demand traction, ecological optimization, and practical feedback. On the one hand, the actual needs in industrial transformation drive technological innovation to focus on key areas. The 2024 China Patent Survey Report shows that 86.6% of domestic enterprises' invention patents are generated through research and development, and 17.8% of invention patents have R&D expenditures of over 1 million yuan, highlighting the driving role of industrial demand in tackling underlying technology challenges. On the other hand, the cross subject collaborative industrial development ecosystem has effectively transformed the situation of "going it alone" in technology research and development. Taking the intelligent connected vehicle industry as an example, enterprises and research institutions have jointly built a "technology community", achieving innovative breakthroughs in multiple dimensions such as intelligent driving, energy-saving technology, and vehicle architecture. This not only promotes the upgrading and iteration of their own products, but also injects strong impetus into the technological progress of the entire industry. The practical feedback in the industry provides support for optimizing the transformation path of scientific and technological achievements. In addition, the economic benefits generated by industrial innovation provide stable financial support for technological innovation. In the first half of 2025, the added value of China's high-tech manufacturing industry above designated size increased by 9.5% year-on-year, and the added value of information transmission, software, and information technology services industry increased by 11.1% year-on-year. The improvement of industrial profitability can directly drive the growth of R&D investment, forming a virtuous cycle of industrial profitability, R&D intensification, technological leadership, and industrial quality and efficiency improvement. The multiplier effect of stimulating the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation through institutional and mechanism innovation is not simply a combination of technology and industry, but rather a replacement of "isolated development" with "system synergy" and "two-way empowerment" with "one-way support", running through the entire chain of basic research, applied research, technology development, and achievement transformation to industrialization, ultimately achieving a virtuous cycle of knowledge production and social wealth creation. Connect key nodes and facilitate the flow of value. One is to open up the transformation channel from strong technology to strong industry, and actively promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Explore the establishment of a technology achievement evaluation system led by enterprises and guided by the market, guide scientific research activities to more closely connect with industry needs, strengthen the supply of technology transfer and transformation services, support industrial chain enterprises, scientific research institutions, etc. to build a comprehensive achievement transformation and sharing service platform that integrates information sharing, resource mutual benefit, and service integration. The second is to build a diversified investment and financing system for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Guiding investment through technology transfer, cooperation, or equity investment, encouraging more financial resources to support technological innovation and achievement transformation. Utilize the advantages of China's super large market to provide application feedback and commercialization scenarios for technological innovation. The third is to enhance the collaborative and linkage capabilities between regions and enterprises, create an innovative development community, achieve efficient cooperation between technology and industry in the spatial dimension, and continuously promote the high-end development of the industrial chain. Strengthen demand traction and connect the collaborative chain. To drive technological innovation activities with industrial demand, establish a normalized and institutionalized mechanism for collecting and publishing industrial technology demand. Fully consider the potential industrial value of technological innovation during the project initiation stage, promote industry participation in the entire process of determining technological innovation goals, formulating and demonstrating technological route plans, and transforming achievements, ensuring the strategic, forward-looking, and feasible implementation of technological innovation activities. Establish a sound intellectual property protection and trading system, improve technology intermediary services, and efficiently distribute innovative achievements to enterprises through platforms such as patent pools and technology exchanges. Cultivate technology intermediary service institutions to solve problems such as information asymmetry and difficulty in technology adaptation between enterprises and research institutions. At the same time, it is necessary to achieve effective collaboration of diverse subject capabilities, clarify the functions and responsibilities of various subjects in scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, optimize the layout of national strategic scientific and technological forces, and promote long-term cooperation among industry, academia, research and application subjects. Optimize the innovation ecosystem and improve system efficiency. We need to consolidate the position of enterprises as the main body of innovation, establish and improve the institutional mechanism for enterprises to participate in the formulation and execution of scientific and technological innovation strategies and industrial development plans on a regular basis. Promote major research and development tasks and common technical difficulties
Edit:Luo yu Responsible editor:Wang xiao jing
Source:ECONOMIC DAILY
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