"Solid waste disposal is a’ hard bone’ in the field of environmental treatment. Our research turns solid waste into low-cost ultra-high performance concrete, which not only solves the environmental protection problem, but also greatly improves the income of enterprises …" Relying on Macheng Industrial Technology Research Institute of Hubei University, the team of Professor Huang Xiulin of Hubei University has successively developed a series of products for preparing ultra-high performance concrete and sludge curing agent from stone tailings, and the research results of related topics won the first prize of Hubei Science and Technology Progress Award, helping enterprises to earn tens of millions of yuan. In the meantime, hundreds of students from Hubei University went to the research institute and related cooperative enterprises for internship training.
Industry, teaching and scientific research … The journey of Professor Huang Xiulin’s team in Industry-University-Research is the epitome of Wuhan universities’ efforts to deepen school-enterprise cooperation, cultivate science and technology talents and seek breakthroughs in scientific and technological innovation. In recent years, as an important town of universities and one of the six national scientific and technological innovation centers, all universities in Wuhan have taken the initiative to take the lead in the integrated development of education, science and technology and talents. Through actions such as "Universities serve thousands of enterprises", they have continued to explore and improve the Industry-University-Research chain, promoted the co-construction of scientific and technological innovation resources between schools and enterprises, shared achievements and shared benefits, gathered together to build a scientific and technological innovation highland, devoted themselves to the cultivation of scientific and technological innovation talents, and served local high-quality development in an all-round way.
"One Chain" Starts the Achievement Transformation "Acceleration Key"
"The platform includes functions such as patent classification management, expert team portrait, supply and demand matching and patent open license. With the concept of open sharing, we provide docking ports for enterprises, intelligently match relevant patent achievements and expert teams according to the needs of enterprises, and use information technology to support the creation, operation and subsequent transformation and development of intellectual property rights. "
Hu Jian, director of the Center for Scientific and Technological Cooperation and Achievements Transformation of Wuhan University of Technology, is proud of the operation of the digital intelligent platform for scientific and technological achievements and intellectual property management. "The platform was launched in 2022, empowering intellectual property management with information technology, artificial intelligence and big data technology, building and perfecting the’ one chain’ system for Industry-University-Research, and effectively promoting the organic connection between education chain, talent chain, industrial chain and innovation chain."
Relying on this platform and the whole chain system for Industry-University-Research, Wuhan University of Technology has promoted many scientific and technological achievements to blossom. For example, Professor Guan Jianguo, the State Key Laboratory of New Materials Composite Technology and the International Demonstration College of Materials Science and Engineering, transferred six invention patents on the preparation and industrial application of special functional coatings to Wuhan Shuang Hu Coatings Co., Ltd., with a contract amount as high as 106 million yuan.
It is one of the effective measures for Wuhan University of Technology to explore the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and serve the development of local enterprises by strengthening the docking transformation between schools and enterprises with the platform of scientific and technological achievements and intellectual property management and operation.
In recent years, in order to solve the mismatch between the supply and demand of science and technology between schools and enterprises, Hubei has vigorously carried out the activities of "linking 100 schools with 1,000 enterprises" and "attacking 10,000 projects by 10,000 people", mobilized universities to actively explore the establishment of a long-term and in-depth cooperation mechanism between schools and enterprises, discussed and built an innovation consortium around the development needs of enterprises, and jointly built a research and development technology research team to help local science and technology stand on its own feet.
Hubei Provincial Department of Education, Department of Science and Technology and other units have jointly launched the "internet plus University Science and Technology Service" platform, which organizes personalized and accurate portraits of the research direction, professional technical expertise, projects undertaken and scientific research achievements of each scientific and technological personnel or team in colleges and universities, so as to promote the accurate docking of scientific and technological needs of enterprises and scientific and technological resources of colleges and universities. At present, the platform has registered more than 10,000 university scientific and technological personnel.
Focusing on the strength of science and technology to serve local development, the team of Academician Zhang Qifa of the State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement of Huazhong Agricultural University has been rooted in experimental farmland all the year round to build the world’s first rice gene index database to protect local national food security; Jianghan University signed a cooperation agreement with Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment for Wuhan Air Compound Pollution Monitoring Laboratory to promote scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation of ecological environment and promote the construction of beautiful Wuhan …
At present, more than 2,000 school-enterprise cooperation platforms, more than 1,300 R&D teams and more than 20,000 horizontal cooperation projects have been established in universities in this province.
Win-win situation releases "new kinetic energy" of scientific research in colleges and universities
Spark discharge is a "stuck-neck" problem that has long plagued electrostatic dust removal industry, which not only affects the performance of dust removal system, but also may cause explosion accidents during the treatment of some combustible flue gas. How to solve the problem of spark discharge? Xiangyang Jiuding Haotian Environmental Protection Equipment Co., Ltd. once fell into a development dilemma.
After learning the needs of the enterprise, Professor Zhang Xiaoxing from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Hubei University of Technology took the initiative to lead the R&D team to Xiangyang Jiuding Haotian Environmental Protection Equipment Co., Ltd. to carry out joint technical research. After repeated theoretical argumentation, many field tests and long-term scientific research practice, the team achieved a technical breakthrough, which can shorten the action time of the electric tar precipitator from millisecond level to nanosecond level after monitoring the discharge signal, greatly improving the safety of the equipment and solving the development problems of the enterprise.
At the same time, relying on the resources of enterprise platform, Zhang Xiaoxing R&D team also published 3 related research papers in high-level journals at home and abroad, one of which was published in the top journals in the field. The two parties filed 7 invention patents together, and 4 invention patents have been authorized at present. Among them, the patent "Spark Discharge Simulation Device and Test Method of High Voltage Electrostatic Precipitator" was selected as the 24th China Patent Excellence Award.
"The school put forward five major reform measures for the transformation of scientific research achievements, including the unified empowerment of post scientific and technological achievements, giving the people who have completed the achievements the common ownership and long-term use rights with the school; Maximize the profits of scientific and technological personnel. For projects that are transformed by the transfer of results (licensing) or the investment in shares at the price of results, most of the proceeds will go to the results completers and related contributors, so as to promote win-win cooperation between schools and enterprises and improve the quality and empowerment of scientific research breakthroughs in schools. " The relevant person in charge of Hubei University of Technology introduced.
How to give full play to the subjective initiative of colleges and universities in the whole chain of Industry-University-Research’s use and stimulate the scientific research vitality of colleges and universities to the greatest extent? Win-win cooperation between schools and enterprises is the core key.
Hubei Provincial Department of Education has taken many measures to highlight the main position of colleges and universities in serving Industry-University-Research through chain transformation. In the new "double-first-class" funding arrangement, universities that have achieved outstanding results in serving Hubei enterprises will receive more support funds and promote the deep integration of school scientific research initiative and local development; At the same time, it is generally implemented in colleges and universities that "the income from the transformation and transfer of scientific and technological achievements by R&D teams in colleges and universities in Hubei shall not be less than 70%, and the maximum income may reach 99%"; Incorporate the social contribution of college teachers into the scope of teacher evaluation …
Thanks to the exploration of school-enterprise cooperation mechanism, in the past three years, universities in this province have added nearly 40 major national science and technology projects, national key research and development plans, and national major scientific research instrument development projects, ranking among the top in the country. Colleges and universities in the province have obtained more than 13,000 authorized patents, including more than 7,100 invention patents, and the output and transformation of scientific and technological achievements in colleges and universities have achieved double growth.
Talent supply activates the "internal driving force" of regional development
"Thanks to the resource advantages of Huazhong University of Science and Technology’s integrated innovation platform for integrated circuits, the energy-efficient memristive scientific computing direction chip we developed has high integration, faster speed and lower energy consumption." Recently, the research team of Li Yi and Miao Xiangshui of the Institute of Integrated Circuits, relying on the innovative platform of integration of integrated circuit production and teaching of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, published the latest research results of the memory and calculation integrated smart chip based on the new memristor online in Science Progress. Li Jiancong, a doctoral student in the School of Integrated Circuits, is the first author of the paper.
The national integrated circuit production and teaching platform of Huazhong University of Science and Technology takes industry as the traction, focusing on the characteristics of national stuck technologies such as "advanced memory", "information security chip" and "compound semiconductor" and local integrated circuit industry clusters, and building a full-chain research platform of "integrated circuit design-materials-devices-process-chip-test-application" for Industry-University-Research, which empowers the whole process of talent training in this school. "Our research and development was carried out in Jiangcheng Laboratory jointly built by the platform and the enterprise, and we also received technical guidance from Huawei on the way, which provided strong support for our research and development work." Li Jiancong said.
Adhere to the "One Core for Life" plan, and build a whole chain training system for the course of integrated circuit design-semiconductor device physics-device simulation-microelectronics process theory and practice based on the platform’s scientific and educational resources. The integrated circuit production and teaching platform of Huazhong University of Science and Technology is committed to training more than 2,000 engineering, innovative and leading multi-level talents every year.
Cultivating talents is planting the future.
Including Huake integrated circuit production and teaching platform, Wuhan colleges and universities closely combine the education chain, talent chain and industrial chain, and innovation chain to build the whole chain of Industry-University-Research in various forms, and strive to build a reservoir of top-notch innovative talents and empower local high-quality development.
Jianghan University actively linked well-known universities, research institutes and domestic large and medium-sized enterprises at home and abroad to build a "Jianghan University Talent Training Base" to jointly train master and doctoral students; The team of Hubei University insists on promoting learning and teaching by competition, and guides students to achieve good results in various competitions …
There are 83 colleges and universities, more than 1.3 million college students, and 81 academicians of the "two academies" in Chinese universities … In recent years, relying on one national research center, two collaborative innovation centers, 11 national engineering technology research centers, 17 national key laboratories and other platforms, Wuhan universities have led a group of top-notch innovative talents to grow into talents in the battlefield of science and technology, providing reserve forces for Wuhan to build a new highland of original innovation strategy and accelerate the establishment of an important strategic fulcrum for the rise of Central China. (Reporter Cheng Mo correspondent Shang Zijing Ding Shimin)