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Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Keywords

regional innovation layout；the new era；key issues；development strategy；future prospects

Abstract

Regional innovation layout is the spatial anchor point for supporting and enhancing the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system. It is also an important carrier for transmitting the national innovation strategy to local areas, optimizing the allocation of innovation resources, and transforming regional comparative advantages. Since the beginning of the new era, with the in-depth implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, China’s regional innovation layout has been continuously adjusted and optimized. Overall, this process has followed a dynamically optimized logic evolving from “points” to “areas” and further to “system” building, successively passing through three stages: the construction and functional refinement of regional innovation carriers; the strategy-driven deepening of cross-regional collaborative innovation; and the tiered layout and functional synergy of innovation highlands. The spatial organization mode, functional positioning and coordination mechanism of regional innovation have been continuously improved. Nevertheless, there are still several urgent problems that need to be addressed in China’s regional innovation layout. These mainly include the need for further strengthening of national strategic coordination and central-local government collaboration, improving the cross-regional flow and systematic allocation of innovation resources, enhancing the leading role of innovation hubs and cross-regional collaboration capabilities, and strengthening the regional connection of innovation chain segmentation and the differentiated layout of industries. Meanwhile, intensifying international competition in science and technology, the overlapping implementation of multiple regional strategies, the development of a unified national market, the growing role of regional application scenarios, and shifts in innovation paradigms are placing new demands on China’s regional innovation layout. Against this background, and with the aim of strengthening the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system, China should further improve its regional innovation layout in five respects. First, enhance the original innovation capabilities of innovation hubs in key areas of international science and technology competition, and strengthen the functional division and key-domain collaborative research of different levels of innovation highlands. Second, establish a cross-level and cross-departmental coordination mechanism for regional innovation based on national demand orientation, to enhance the synergy between regional innovation layout and national strategic tasks. Third, improve the mechanism for cross-regional allocation and open sharing of innovative elements to facilitate more efficient flow and combination of innovative resources. Fourth, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation by innovating for a wide range of application scenarios, emphasizing the guiding role of regional distinctive scenarios in driving technological iteration, transfer, and application. Fifth, promote the adaptation of regional innovation functions in response to the transformation of innovation paradigms. Encourage different regions to form differentiated innovation functions based on their respective conditions, and achieve complementary advantages through cross-regional collaboration. Through these optimizations, further enhance the operational efficiency of the regional innovation system, and provide spatial support for building an efficient and collaborative national innovation system and achieving high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology.

First page

1816

Last Page

1828

Language

Chinese

Publisher

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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