On March 15, Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology will release the guidelines for the first three science and technology projects:
★ The total amount of financial support proposed to be invested in biological medicine science and technology innovation activities exceeds 200 million yuan, and the maximum subsidy for a single event can be 30 million yuan;
★ 2023 Basic Research Plan Basic and Applied Basic Research Project will streamline administration and delegate power to the lower level with maximum effort, and it is planned to solicit support for more than 2000 young doctors to carry out basic research in Guangzhou;
★ In 2023, the municipal school (hospital) joint funding project of the basic research plan is planned to be guided by the municipal finance with an investment of 22.7 million yuan, and to leverage the investment of 182 million yuan in basic research in Guangzhou's high-level universities and hospitals.
It is worth noting that the "Guangzhou Science and Technology Brain" built by Guangzhou Science and Technology Bureau will serve the application and acceptance of science and technology projects for the first time. The science and technology policy is accurate, "reaching every second", "data warehouse" breaks the information island, and introduces technologies such as the Internet, blockchain and big data to avoid "running errands and seals" and the policy of "free application and enjoyment"... Compared with the traditional science and technology project management system, "Guangzhou Science and Technology Brain" has enabled Guangzhou to have "the strongest brain" in the allocation of innovative resources through digital and intelligent reform.
Data map: aerial photography of Pazhou core area of Guangzhou Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy Pilot Zone. (Chen Youzi/photographer)
How to accurately "irrigate" the "seed" of innovation with a special fund of 4.34 billion yuan?
The Report on the Implementation of Guangzhou's 2021 Budget and the 2022 Budget Draft shows that the municipal finance will arrange 8.25 billion yuan to support scientific and technological innovation in 2022. In the "big plate" of municipal finance, the special fund for scientific and technological innovation and development in 2021 coordinated by the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau reached 4.34 billion yuan.
How can billions of yuan of funds accurately "irrigate" the "seed" of innovation? The reporter of Guangzhou Daily learned from the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau that the Bureau further optimized the science and technology planning system, constructed a classified and orderly "3+3" funding method for municipal financial science and technology funds, and improved the efficiency of science and technology resource allocation. "3+3", that is, three types of pre funding: competitive pre funding, pre agreement funding, and pre targeted organization funding; Three types of post subsidy: policy based post subsidy, post innovation competition subsidy, and post performance evaluation subsidy.
"The new funding mode has significantly reduced the traditional competitive project support mode relying on expert peer review, fully played the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, and further expanded innovation evaluation mechanisms such as subsidies after innovation competitions and subsidies after performance evaluation," said the relevant person in charge of the Science and Technology Bureau.
For the construction of science and technology service institutions, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan youth innovation and entrepreneurship and other special projects, considering their high degree of marketization and good social foundation, we will introduce venture capital, banking institutions and other institutions to participate in the review by holding innovation and entrepreneurship competitions to promote the accelerated integration of innovation chain, industry chain and capital chain; For incubator and maker space construction, science popularization base construction and other projects, we will focus on their operation, service capacity, economic and social effects, performance output, etc., and support them through performance evaluation and "competition to promote evaluation" and other ways.
At the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao (International) Youth Innovation Workshop, researchers conduct experiments in modern precision optics and terahertz laboratories.
In addition, in order to make it easier for scientific researchers to grasp the release time of Guangzhou's science and technology plan project guide, Guangzhou will release the science and technology plan project guide on March 15 and April 15 every year from this year. The specific application information can be accessed in the "Guangzhou Science and Technology Brain" column on the official website of Guangzhou Science and Technology Bureau（ https://gzsti.gzsi.gov.cn/pms/homepage.html ）, "Guangzhou Science and Technology Innovation" WeChat official account. The first batch of centralized release projects will be announced on March 15.
From enterprises to talents, there are "awards" to encourage research on new drugs and medical devices
The reporter saw that the first batch of centralized release projects had three, focusing on innovation subsidies and basic research in the biomedical industry. Among them, "Guangzhou Biomedical Industry Innovation Subsidy (2021)" supports the innovative development of Guangzhou's biomedical industry by means of post subsidy. It will give policy subsidies to the innovative activities of biomedical science and technology in four categories. The proposed total financial support will exceed 200 million yuan, and the maximum subsidy for a single event will be 30 million yuan.
Guangzhou strongly supports such strategic pillar industries as biomedicine. The picture shows the Baekje Shenzhou pharmaceutical production line. (Liao Xueming/photographer)
First, clinical research subsidies for new drugs. For units that launch new drug clinical research in 2021 and promise to realize new drug industrialization in Guangzhou, a subsidy of up to 7.5 million yuan will be given to each eligible new drug clinical research project.
The second is medical device registration subsidy. For enterprises that have obtained the first registration certificate of Class II and Class III medical device products in 2021, a subsidy of up to 5 million yuan will be given to each eligible device product.
The third is the institution certification subsidy, which will be granted to the institutions that have won the approval of GLP for the first time in 2021, the certification of AAALAC for the first time, and the GCP that has built Phase I research wards and put them into use, with a subsidy of up to 4 million yuan.
The fourth is R&D and clinical trial subsidy. The maximum subsidy of 30 million yuan will be given to the research and development service institutions such as GLP, contract research institutions (CRO), bio pharmaceutical industry pilot test platform and local GCP institutions that have completed more than 10 clinical trials of new drugs in 2021, depending on the situation.
The reporter noticed that the subsidy was added for the first time as a "municipal scientific research project". Institutions that carry out clinical research of new drugs and research projects of Class III medical device products can recommend one scientific researcher to participate in the research, which will be deemed as undertaking one municipal science and technology plan project. This measure will provide convenient conditions for relevant scientific researchers to apply for various talent policies and handle professional title recognition in Guangzhou, relieve their worries and further improve their enthusiasm to participate in clinical research of new drugs or medical devices.
Innovative drug research and development personnel.
Invest 22.7 million yuan in financial funds, and leverage 182 million yuan to carry out basic research
In the qualifying race to anchor the future of the city, the reserve of basic research is the basis for leading strategic emerging industries and stimulating endogenous growth momentum.
The basic and applied basic research projects of Guangzhou 2023 Basic Research Plan will all be aimed at young scientific and technological personnel under the age of 35, and it is expected that no more than 2000 young doctors will be supported to carry out basic research in Guangzhou.
What is worth paying attention to are the three initiatives of the project to "refresh the nation's top".
First, break the bottleneck of the system and give the basic research field the greatest effort to streamline administration and delegate power. The project organization unit has full independent management rights in the whole process of project application, expert review, project initiation and recommendation, contract change, mid-term inspection, acceptance, etc. It can develop project management methods or procedures to carry out project selection, project initiation, process management, and final acceptance, and fully implement the "lump sum system" for the use and management of funds for the projects included in the simplified administration and decentralization.
The second is to optimize the project application and selection mechanism and build the simplest process of application and project establishment. Scientific researchers only need to enter their own educational background, degree and other supporting materials in the individual registration process at one time, without having to enter them repeatedly; All the application procedures only need to be filled in no more than 200 words. At the same time, the preparation of the budget table for specific subjects of project funds is canceled, which truly frees the energy of scientific researchers from the tedious process of filling in forms, repeated certification, and budget of funds.
The third is to innovate the evaluation mechanism and initiate the result oriented acceptance mode. It pioneered the "Five Ones" linkage acceptance mode (i.e., "one paper, one patent, one project, one award, and one professional title"). If the project leader obtains one of the five situations in the form of project funding and the use of funds meets the regulations, the organization unit will review and accept the project, and may not organize technical experts to review.
On the same day, the third project was jointly funded by the municipal school (institute) of the 2023 Basic Research Plan. This project is the first municipal science and technology plan project of "municipal financial funds+self raised funds" in China. Support the joint establishment of basic and applied basic research projects and municipal key laboratory construction projects with 3 high-level universities and 11 high-level hospitals. The Municipal Science and Technology Bureau will invest no less than 1.4 million yuan per year in each co construction unit, and no less than 10 million yuan per year in each co construction unit. Through this measure, in 2023, the municipal finance will guide the investment of 22.7 million yuan, pry up the investment of 182 million yuan in basic research in Guangzhou's high-level universities and hospitals, and further increase the investment in basic research of the whole society.
Pazhou Experimental Zone, Guangzhou.
Three major innovations of "Guangzhou Science and Technology Brain", working as "AI assistant" for scientific researchers
On March 15, the "Guangzhou Science and Technology Brain" (hereinafter referred to as "Brain") built by the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau will serve the application and acceptance of science and technology projects for the first time. Compared with the traditional science and technology project management system, Guangzhou Science and Technology Brain has three major innovations.
The traditional science and technology project management system focuses on the process management of "selection - project establishment - final acceptance". In addition to the process management function, "brain" is more like an "AI assistant", realizing the transformation from science and technology project management to science and technology innovation service. This "assistant" can respond to the needs of science and technology enterprises and researchers at any time, including precise push of science and technology policies, docking of enterprise investment and financing, search of office space, optimization of science and technology intermediary services, etc.
The system can automatically push the corresponding science and technology policies according to the information such as the registration location of the unit, the nature and type of the unit, and improve the efficiency and accuracy of policy retrieval. For example, after a high-tech enterprise in Whampoa registers in "Brain", the system will accurately push relevant science and technology policies of the country, province, city and Whampoa District. If the enterprise pays attention to the science and technology policies of other regions, it can synchronously browse through personalized subscription of policies.
Another innovation is powerful data interconnection and sharing service capability. "Brain" has specially built a "data warehouse", which has greatly enhanced the interactive and reusable use of data information, thus reducing the burden on scientific researchers to fill in project application forms. "Interactivity" means that the system can automatically call data across departments and levels. For example, scientific researchers can read the historical data of provincial and municipal science and technology planning projects through "data synchronization", without the need for repeated entry. "Reusability" is generally defined as multiple reuses of one report. For example, scientific researchers only need to enter their educational background, degree, professional title and other supporting materials at the individual registration stage once, and then they can access them at different project application stages with one click, without having to upload them repeatedly.
In addition, "Brain" has innovated the technological business process through digitalization. For example, the introduction of blockchain technology has enabled the signing of science and technology plan project contracts online, saved the trouble of scientific researchers from running errands and stamping, and strengthened the anti tampering ability of project contracts. With the introduction of big data technology, some subsidy projects can be automatically verified, eliminating the application process of enterprises and individuals, and realizing the "free application and enjoyment" of policy implementation. By introducing data encryption technology, "brain" can realize "double blind" review of scientific and technological projects, and isolate experts from evaluation institutions and stakeholders of the reviewed projects to the greatest extent; At the same time, "Brain" will promote the quality and quantity of scientific and technological experts and ensure the quality of project review by sharing the database of scientific and technological experts with the Science and Technology Department of Guangdong Province.
(The original title is "200 million yuan subsidy for biomedicine! Guangzhou uses the" strongest brain "to accept the application of science and technology projects")
