When Will Private Enterprises Go for Innovation?

"We must focus on building an innovative country, conscientiously implement the goals and tasks set out in the national long-term plan for the development of science and technology, and accelerate the establishment of a technological innovation system that combines enterprise-oriented, market-oriented, and production, learning and research." In this year's "Government Work Report," Premier Wen Jiabao highly emphasized the significance of innovation. Corporate innovation, especially private enterprise innovation, has become one of the hot topics this year.

The investigation of the five major problems shows that on the one hand, about 70% of China’s technological innovations, 65% of domestic invention patents and over 80% of new products come from SMEs, while over 95% of SMEs are non-public enterprises; on the other hand, China only has Three-tenths of enterprises have core technologies with independent intellectual property rights. 99% of companies do not apply for patents, 60% of companies do not have their own trademarks, and private enterprises have a lower percentage.

In response to a media reporter’s interview with the Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, Huang Mengfu stated that the core technology control rate of the most important issue faced by the current private enterprise’s independent innovation was attributed to the fact that the company did not intend to innovate. The reasons for inability to innovate, enterprises are difficult to innovate, companies are afraid to innovate, and companies are reluctant to innovate:

First of all, the awareness of independent innovation of private enterprises in China is generally weak, and most companies do not intend to innovate. Secondly, private enterprises have generally insufficient talents, technology, and funds, and most companies are unable to innovate. Again, ** difficulties, tax burdens, and direct support from the state make it difficult for most private enterprises to innovate. In addition, the protection of intellectual property rights is not enough and the market risks are high. Most private enterprises are afraid to innovate. Finally, tempted by the actual interests, the business pursues "short-term fast", and most companies are reluctant to innovate.

The 10-year national ** representative who is known as the “business thinker” and the director of the Hongdou Group’s board of directors Zhou Yaoting has transformed from a technology-oriented enterprise to a technology-based enterprise. During the period of ** **: Private enterprises must give top priority to independent innovation, and private enterprises must dare to embrace technology. Business transformation.

Zhou Yaoting said that the vast majority of private enterprises in China are small in scale and are engaged in traditional industries such as manufacturing, wholesale, retail, trade, and catering services. The technological content is generally not high, especially in some manufacturing industries, but only low-level copying of production capacity, or On behalf of the processing, the brand grows slowly or there is no brand at all, there is no core technology, and the hard earned money. With the further increase of land and labor costs and the further improvement of environmental protection and energy thresholds, these private enterprises will develop harder or fail due to traditional methods. The only way to change their fate is to put independent innovation first. It can be said that private enterprises cannot survive without innovation, and there is no way to develop without innovation.

Regarding how to carry out independent innovation, Zhou Yaoting believes that private enterprises can not only improve their competitiveness through technological innovation on the basis of traditional industries, but also can transform themselves into technology-based ones through industrial upgrading. Zhou Yaoting was very excited about how to transform into a technology-based enterprise. He said that private enterprises are mostly small and medium-sized enterprises and they are easy to transform into technology-based enterprises. As long as the opportunities are identified, the current information technology, biotechnology, and new materials industries are very Many prospects are very broad, and they can be developed as long as there are suitable technical talents and funds. Many of the world's most famous companies, such as Microsoft, Oracle, and other companies, have all evolved from their own explosive and core technologies and have become major companies in the world.

During the period of breaking the bottleneck of innovation funds, the National Federation of Industry and Commerce brought with them 26 industry chambers of commerce to propose more than 20 CPPCC proposals. Among them, the top three proposals are all related to "individual enterprises' technological innovation."

The three proposals are the “Proposal on Reforming the National S&T Fund Management Methods and Mechanisms and Practically Enhancing the Overall Efficiency of International Scientific and Technological Investment” written by the Research Chamber of Industry and Commerce of the People's Republic of China and the “Three Ratios of Enhancing National S&T Capital Investment” to the full realization of private enterprises. Proposal on the Important Role of Independent Innovation, and the Proposal on Establishing a Technology Bank by the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.

In the proposal, the Federation of Industry and Commerce proposed a policy proposal to increase the investment in science and technology funds for private enterprises. The Federation of Industry and Commerce believes that the low proportion of national financial science and technology funds and the low efficiency of input and output of scientific and technological funds are two major problems in the current national science and technology investment management. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the ratio of three funds:

The first is to increase the proportion of science and technology expenditures in fiscal expenditures, ensure that the increase in financial science and technology investment is significantly higher than the increase in fiscal recurrent income, and second, increase the input ratio of production and industrial technology research and development in financial science and technology investment, which is mainly to improve the The proportion of investment in technological innovation; Third, in the investment of financial science and technology funds for enterprises, it is necessary to increase the proportion of investment in private enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises.

In the "Proposal on Establishing a Science and Technology Bank," the Federation of Industry and Commerce believes that there are 53 national-level hi-tech development zones nationwide, and there are more than 40,000 high-tech enterprises identified; and there are more than 150,000 private technology enterprises in the country. It is recommended that the state establish a specialized bank for technology companies, namely the Technology Bank, to provide services for technology companies.

A number of members proposed to strengthen financial support for enterprises' technological innovation, build a multi-tiered capital market that supports innovation as soon as possible, launch the GEM as soon as possible, increase the support of the national finance, and try to open science and technology banks.

Members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and vice chairman of the National Federation of Industry and Commerce also recommended at the second plenary session of the Fifth Session of the Tenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to build a multi-level capital market that supports innovation as soon as possible, expand risk ventures, launch the GEM as soon as possible, and actively develop. The technology property rights trading market actively develops the bond market for technology-based companies; guides private capital to develop community technology banks in high-tech development zones; expands financial services for innovative companies; enhances the strength of innovation support for small and medium-sized enterprises and strengthens innovation taxation The implementation of supporting policies will guide government procurement to domestic high-tech products.

Protecting Intellectual Property Rights of Private Enterprises At present, some of the multinational corporations' patent operation “old hand” partners with domestic lawbreakers, making full use of the current Chinese patent legal loopholes and infringing on the intellectual property rights of Chinese private enterprises, causing private innovation companies to suffer huge economic losses. Ye Hongming, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Professor of Zhejiang Tree Science, called for the proposal that the National Standing Committee quickly discuss and adopt the newly revised Patent Law.

Member Ye Hongming pointed out that the common tricks of multinational corporations to occupy private enterprises’ proprietary intellectual property patent achievements mainly include the following: 1. Insulting the growth and growth opponents under the pretext of patent infringement; 2. Making shell companies and adopting group wolf tactics to plunder patents. Scientific and technological achievements; Third, adopting a group of wolf tactics to snatch up and score the results of low-price competition, resulting in the patent owner's failure; Fourth, the use of "examination guide" loopholes, the use of wheel tactics to compete for patents dragged the patent right people during the golden period; Fifth, the use of private enterprises Due to the private rights of the law, the use of bean curd slags seriously jeopardizes the patent transformation and the number of patents.

Member Ye Hongming suggested that in the revision of the Patent Law, the State Intellectual Property Office should increase the provisions of criminal infringement of malicious infringement. If the malicious right infringer causes serious economic losses to the patentee, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law and the legal person and the responsible party shall be investigated. The economic compensation liability shall be punished without penalty for its illegal gains; the increase of the deductible clause shall be exempted from punishment and compensation through administrative mediation for non-malicious infringement actions that inadvertently involve patent infringement and are promptly stopped after being notified.