Yangpu district boasts extensive academic and research resources and innovative achievements. How to leverage and transform such strengths into actual application?
On June 14, the official launching ceremony for Yangpu Technology Resources Market (YTRM), the first TRM in the city, was held in Dream Offices park. YTRM integrates local resources scattering in local academic institutes, sci-tech park and businesses to develop a more efficient custodian platform for research results by leveraging existing resources and vehicles.
For most academic institutes, lack of talent, insufficient assessment, low application efficiency are key obstacles to the translation of research results into actual application. "The translation largely tell the fate of sci-tech innovations," added the head of district science and technology committee, "TRM aims at resolving such issues by integrating resources and actively involving IP owners, customers, services providers and investors for smooth application, transfer and subsequent commercially-viable operations."
YTRM will leverage online and offline resources to achieve its objectives. Head of National Eastern Tech-Transfer Center remarked, "first, we developed an online platform accessible to service providers, academic institutes and businesses for the post, search, and browse of research results and requests, based on which we match-make potential partnerships and provide bespoke solutions."Meanwhile, it develops potential partnerships via offline services to patent developers, i.e., academic institutes, and enterprise users, acting as their match-makers, which facilitates the ultimate application of research results. Specifically, it develops databases and provides preliminary assessment on result results; its team also visits businesses for negotiations and testing, which enables accurate mapping of resources and demands.
Moreover, YTRM will foster more accommodative environment for effective and efficient research results application by funding, market, favorable policies, talent development, along with campaigns and other supporting measures. It will evolve into a pioneer or a leading platform in the country in terms of research results application and an integrated entity for the application, trading and incubation of innovative research results in Shanghai and the Yangtze Delta.
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and other three academic institutes entered into strategic partnerships with YTRM at the ceremony.