Xiamen Daily | Jiageng Innovation Laboratory: Technology and Industry Go Two-way Here

Editor's Note

Jiageng Innovation Laboratory is one of the first four provincial innovation laboratories in Fujian, which is committed to building a "science and technology accelerator" and "industrial engine" in the field of energy materials ". Facing the needs of national energy strategy and future industrial development, the laboratory has laid out more than 80 scientific and technological industrialization research and development projects in the fields of hydrogen energy, semiconductors, future display, instruments and equipment, and has incubated more than 20 high-tech enterprises. From now on, this newspaper and the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau will launch a series of reports on the incubation of enterprises in the Jiageng Innovation Laboratory. Reporters will walk into these enterprises one after another to explore the story behind the project from "laboratory" to "production line". Show the characteristics of enterprise development and the development achievements of Jiageng Innovation Laboratory related fields.

In the "canyon" of the transfer of scientific and technological achievements to industrialization, Jiageng Innovation Laboratory has built a "bridge". As one of the first batch of provincial innovation laboratories in Fujian Province, since its establishment in 2019, Jiageng Innovation Laboratory has given full play to the public welfare of scientific and technological research and development and the flexibility of industrial transformation mechanism, committed to the "two legs" of basic research and industrial transformation, and walked out of an industrial development path with the characteristics of "Jiageng Laboratory.

Facing the national energy strategy and the demand of future industrial development, Jiageng Innovation Laboratory has laid out more than 80 R & D projects of science and technology industrialization in hydrogen energy, semiconductor, future display, instrument and equipment, etc., carried out multi-mode transformation of scientific and technological achievements, provided project incubation and transformation operation of scientific and technological achievements through the innovation of system and mechanism, and has incubated more than 20 high-tech enterprises, attract state-owned enterprises, social capital and other external investment of more than 0.5 billion yuan.

Exploring the New Path of Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements

General scientific research institutions do "samples", while Jiageng Innovation Laboratory does "products". On this basis, through cooperation with enterprises, capital and government, "products" are turned into "commodities" in the market ".

"We focus on the needs of industries and projects, explore and cultivate innovative and entrepreneurial projects that have been applied in the industry or have the potential for industrial application in the short term, provide incubation and cultivation services, and gather industrial chain resources." Zhang Aiqiang, deputy director of Jiageng Innovation Laboratory, said that through the establishment of a support platform, the laboratory, on the one hand, assists the project in solving initial scientific and technological problems, meeting financing needs, and undertaking early research and development risks, on the other hand, it provides industrialization support and post-investment operation services for the project.

Jiageng Innovation Laboratory is characterized by incubating and cultivating "three high" enterprises, building an innovation ecological chain of "government, industry, university, research and fund". By integrating the advantageous resources and innovation elements of all parties, Jiageng Strategic Emerging Industry Science and Technology Innovation Fund is prepared to solve the problem of financing difficulties in early projects. At the same time, with the help of district governments at all levels in the industrial chain, policy, park and other aspects, we will jointly establish Jiageng Science and industry accelerator. Make full use of laboratory platform conditions, provide multi-dimensional and all-round service support in interdisciplinary cohesion, shared space, public instruments, post-investment operations, enterprise services, etc.

Here, innovative projects can be "from 0 to 1 and then to 100" from the government, and then to the realization of industrialization, complete self "hematopoiesis" and market "take over", and form a complete innovation ecological chain of "basic research and technological achievements transformation of scientific and technological financial talents.

Opening up experimental fields for system reform and innovation

From the transformation of "sample thinking" to "product thinking", Jiageng Innovation Laboratory provides a new solution in mechanism and system innovation, opening up the chain from basic research to industrial technology research to industrialization.

Zhang Aiqiang said that in terms of the employment and talent introduction mechanism, the laboratory has introduced high-end research and development talents or top industrialized scarce talents as project leaders through diversified methods such as full-time introduction, double-employment and double-span, and flexible introduction. At the same time, the laboratory has established innovative talent teams including engineering, marketing, enterprise operation and management through the project to support the smooth completion of the transformation and landing of the project.

In 2021, Jiageng Innovation Laboratory took the lead in setting up Jiageng Laboratory Technology Industry Development (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. as a shareholding and investment and financing platform, responsible for the incubation and operation of achievement transformation and equity awards. At the same time, combined with the actual development needs, a special "policy package" for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements has been formulated one after another, the project evaluation mechanism and the guiding principles for the substantive operation of industrialized companies have been clarified, and the organization and decision-making on the "three important and one large" issues of industrialization have been established. At the same time, practical procedures such as investment in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements have been refined. Combined with the spirit of the relevant documents of the provincial government, the sustainable development investment model combining "financial funds and social capital" has been further improved.

In the implementation of the industrialization path, the laboratory implements the project "directional transformation" model, that is, according to the different stages of the project and the differences in market strategies, actively explore more diversified results transformation landing and incubation business models.

For example, the "joint venture mode" focuses more on the development of market channels and belongs to the main mode of scientists' entrepreneurship. The "equity participation mode" focuses more on the company's historical performance and industrial chain resources, and accelerates the development of the enterprise through the upgrading of science and technology and products. The "research institute company mode" is more of a high and new technology that needs continuous iteration and innovation, seizing talents and technological heights through industry-university-research cooperation. As the business sector is becoming more and more perfect, Jiageng Innovation Laboratory is also exploring the "transformation and investment linkage" model of CRE funds and diversified business models such as asset mergers and acquisitions.

Highlights: The flower of scientific research bears the fruits of the industry.

At present, many project teams of Jiageng Innovation Laboratory have incubated enterprises through actual production line verification and product testing, and have obtained good market feedback and cooperation intention.

In the field of hydrogen energy, the laboratory has carried out research on the core technologies of the whole chain from catalyst, carbon paper, membrane electrode to electric reactor, and has hatched high-tech companies such as Chinese businessmen Xiamen Geng, Ludao Hydrogen Energy, Jia Membrane Technology and Jia Hydrogen Technology, which have received an external investment of over 100 million yuan. Among them, the alkaline electrolysis water hydrogen production project released the first 1000 standard alkaline electrolysis water hydrogen production equipment, with an investment of over 80 million yuan from Hong Kong listed enterprises under China Merchants Industrial Group. The 100 kilowatch proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer was selected as the first (set) of major technical equipment in the energy field of the National Development and Reform Commission, with social capital increasing by more than 10 million yuan. The alkaline ion exchange membrane industrialization development project received more than 10 million yuan from industrial partners; the high-selectivity catalyst project has now entered the ton-level trial production stage, and is negotiating investment cooperation with two Fortune 500 companies, and attracting industrial investors to inject more than 10 million yuan.

In the semiconductor field, the laboratory project team focused on the core strategic materials applied in the production and manufacture of integrated circuit chips, and successfully developed a series of products such as high-end lithography dielectric materials and high-end semiconductor cleaning agents, which are still blank in China and have no record of mass production. They have been verified by the actual production lines of domestic semiconductor leading enterprises, and their overall performance matches and some performances even exceed the international best bidding products, it has greatly improved the efficiency of integrated circuit chip manufacturing, and has been highly recognized by the industry partner fluorine fine chemical leading enterprises, and established Fujian Yonggeng Technology Company to attract investment of more than 0.24 billion yuan.