What's the best way to market the transformation of scientific and technological achievements besides listing them on the exchange? Show up at the auction! This afternoon, under the guidance of Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, the "2018 First Shanghai International Technology Auction" was jointly held by the Eastern National Technology Transfer Center (hereinafter referred to as the Eastern Center), Shanghai International Commodity Auction Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as Shanghai State Auction) and Shanghai Shenchuang Small and Medium Enterprises Cooperation and Exchange Promotion Center (hereinafter referred to as Shenchuang). "Draw the curtain. This is also the first time Shanghai has held a special auction for technical achievements after the Ministry of Science and Technology issued "Several Opinions on the Development of Technology Market" in late May this year.

In mid-March 2018, the Eastern Center, together with Shanghai State Auction and Shenchuang, started planning this technology auction, and it took nearly 4 months until the auction officially launched today.During the 4 months, the three parties cooperated to build the "Shanghai International Technology Auction Platform" and jointly promote, plan and organize this auction with the platform as the main body. At the early stage of preparation, the Eastern Center acquired technologies with trading potential from the self-built achievement database, and invited more than 20 scientific research institutions such as Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai University of Engineering and Technology, Fudan University, Tongji University, Jiaotong University, Shanghai University, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design and Research Institute, China Aerospace Science and Technology Group, and Institute of Microelectronics of Shanghai Peking University, etc. to invite their scientific research management leaders, scientific research managers, scientific research institutions, and other institutions to participate in the auction. The team tries a new way of trading technology auctions.

The team also investigated more than 10 technology transfer service providers such as Yumo Enterprise Management Consulting (Shanghai) Limited, Shanghai Gaohang Intellectual Property Services Limited, and Crown Research (Shanghai) Patent Technology Limited to explore the feasibility of using technology auctions as a new path for technology transfer services. In addition, the platform also held various forms of project matchmaking meetings, including the Yangtze River Delta Innovation Cooperation Development Forum, the Shanghai Rendezvous Venture Project Roadshow, the "Into Universities" series of industry-university-research matchmaking meetings, the 2018 London Science and Technology Week China Tour Shanghai, the 2018 China-Japan University Forum, one-on-one project precision matchmaking meetings and other 12 events, looking for Intentional Technical Partners. After thorough preparation, the organizers carefully selected 6 subjects from 86 patents from universities, institutes and enterprises, covering popular technical fields such as film and television image analysis, chemical industry and biomedicine.

As expected, this auction, 6 pieces of quality after repeated screening became the scene of the hotly contested "object", the total transaction amount of 1.428 million yuan. Lot 1 was provided by the Shanghai Ocean University of invention patents "a fruit and vegetable preservative and its preparation method" and "slow-release food preservation film and its preparation method", and finally sold at 150,000 yuan; Lot 2 was provided by the Shanghai University of Engineering and Technology invention patents "A method of epitaxial growth of NiSiGe materials by deposition of Ni1-xTix alloy layer", which was finally sold for 100,000 RMB; Subject 3 was the patent "a PVC/agricultural waste composite material and its preparation method and application" provided by Shanghai University of Engineering and Technology. "The final price was RMB 300,000, which was auctioned off by Buyer 212; Lot 4 was the software copyright "A Universal Software for Film and Television Industry" provided by Guangzhou Sen Mu Advertising Company, which was auctioned off by Buyer 220 for RMB 600,000; Lot 5 was auctioned off by Shanghai Purimei Chemical Technology Co. Ltd. and Shanghai Purimay Chemical Technology Co., Ltd. for the patent of "a biodegradable amphiphilic polyurethane resin composite material and its preparation method", which was finally sold at RMB 78,000,000. Polymer Compound," which also holds U.S. and Japanese patents, respectively, was ultimately sold to bidder 217 for $200,000.

Some experts said that on one hand, a large number of scientific and technological achievements are kept in the boudoir of the city's universities, research institutes and enterprises, unable to find good buyers or sell at a good price; on the other hand, the construction of Shanghai's globally influential science and technology center, the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, as well as the needs of ordinary people's consumption upgrade, all call for more and better scientific and technological achievements to the market, into ordinary people's homes. As an open and transparent way of trading materials and intangible assets, auctions can achieve the goal of "more trading opportunities and lower transaction costs", and at present, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Qingdao and other provinces and cities have already set a precedent for technological achievements to be auctioned. Exchange listing, "one-to-one" to carry out transactions in this form. The introduction of auctions can effectively supplement traditional technology trading methods, and their open and transparent operation mode, highly market-oriented pricing mechanism and standardized trading process provide a favourable guarantee for technology trading.

The experts also pointed out that, and materials auction, trademark and other intangible assets auction, compared to the technology auction, the greater difficulty, it is not a simple one-time delivery, after the completion of the auction, the original technology holders need to provide follow-up technical service support, it is also the scientific and technological achievements on the auction platform after the ultimate realization of the key to market.

To this end, the relevant person in charge of the Eastern Center said that the Eastern Center will give full play to the function of Shanghai's public service platform for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, so that technology intermediary service agencies can smoothly penetrate into all aspects of technology transfer and transformation, and provide a series of policy support and supporting services in combination with "innovation vouchers" and expert advisory groups to guide and support conditional technology transfer. The transfer agency provides professional services (technology transaction filing, result maturation, strategic planning, etc.) for the landing of technology achievements after the auction, thus driving the optimization of Shanghai's technology transfer system structure and improving the overall efficiency of the technology transfer system.

(Article source: upnews)