Future prospects for agricultural science and technology innovation: Accurately grasp the characteristics of the times
I. Accurately grasp the characteristics of the times
Where to go has become a major historic issue facing the development of agricultural science and technology innovation. This historic issue is brought about by the overall situation of development in our era. These characteristics are: (1) Globalization. (2) Intelligentization. (3) Marketization. (4) Human-centeredness. (5) Regionalization. (6) "New three rural issues" transformation. China's traditional three rural issues are undergoing profound changes. The situation of traditional farmers, agricultural business forms, and rural forms is undergoing tremendous change. Farmers are transitioning from social farmers to industrial farmers. From leaving the land without leaving the village to leaving the land and leaving the village, people from other industries are also shifting into agriculture, and farmers no longer have regional characteristics, increasingly reflecting their industrial functions. Agriculture is also transitioning from smallholder farming dominated by self-sufficiency to agricultural industrialization. Agricultural resource base-building and park-based development, incorporation of agricultural operating entities, diversification of agricultural industries, and new industrial forms featuring multi-industry integration are showing new characteristics. (7) Big dataization. Research methods based on data technology will change people's traditional concepts and research methods.
II. Science and technology innovation capacity depends on four factors
Overall, all science and technology innovation activities must answer four questions: whom to serve, that is, strategic positioning; with what content and in what manner to provide services; how to build and efficiently operate the main body of science and technology innovation; and in the process of science and technology innovation, how to build discourse power and the capacity to produce and disseminate science and technology innovation achievements. The degree of coordination among these four factors and their mutual relationships is the fundamental measure determining agricultural science and technology innovation capacity.
⟦NL> (1) How to do a good job in the strategic positioning of science and technology innovation? First, correctly grasp the driving force of science and technology innovation development. Scientific development mainly includes three levels: scientific exploration, science and technology innovation, and social application. Science and technology activities at different levels display different driving forces of development. Second, firmly grasp three links: (1) Determine the service targets. (2) Analyze the needs of the targets. (3) Do a good job in disciplinary layout.
(2) On the manufacturing capacity of science and technology achievements (products). Disciplinary layout, innovation teams, independent original innovation, science and technology achievement display and experimental platforms, and science and technology industrialization innovation realization platforms are the five basic links of science and technology innovation activities, realizing the value creation of science and technology innovation. These five factors and their composition determine product manufacturing capacity.
(3) Modernization of governance methods. 1. Modernization of governance methods refers to the organizational methods for modern science and technology innovation activities using modern technology and modern concepts. 2. Generally speaking, the various main bodies of science and technology innovation activities mainly include: First, scientific and technological personnel. Second, innovation teams. They are the main body completing science and technology innovation activities. Third, institutes or research offices. They are the organizers implementing the science and technology innovation strategy of institutes. Fourth, research institutes and offices are the bearers and organizational planners of overall science and technology activities. 3. Science and technology innovation activities are divided into three basic levels: the basic level, the organizational level, and the strategic level. 4. The main paths for building modernized governance methods: (1) Cultural governance. (2) Legal governance. (3) Mechanism governance. (4) Technical governance.
III. Accelerate transformation and upgrading, and lay out new disciplines
(1) Transformation. With social development, the main bodies of science and technology demand are constantly changing. Agricultural science and technology innovation must, based on the changed demand subjects, redefine service targets and, according to the new needs of new targets, provide new and effective science and technology innovation services. This process is transformation. To complete transformation, it is necessary to do a good job in repositioning service targets, analyzing their new needs, and on this basis carrying out disciplinary layout and organizing research projects.
(2) Upgrading. With the continuous development of society, the needs of service targets are also changing at an accelerating pace. Science and technology innovation must, based on the new needs of service targets, organize new science and technology innovation activities. This process is called "upgrading."
To respond to transformation and upgrading, it is necessary to do a good job in the three foundational tasks of "determining service targets, analyzing the needs of targets, and doing a good job in disciplinary layout."
IV. Accelerate open innovation and improve science and technology innovation capacity
(1) Opening up means jumping out. First, jump out of one's own unit, discover topics from demand, deepen innovation from demand, and realize innovation through extension. Second, jump out of one's own industry. Think about the innovation of one's own industry from the perspective of the relationship between this traditional industry and new industries, and study the mutual relationships among related industries. For example, pesticide innovation must be linked with food safety and the ecological environment; forage industry innovation can be combined with tourism agriculture, and traditional Chinese medicinal herbs can also be used to develop new functional health-oriented forage industry resources. Cross-industry science and technology innovation teams and cross-unit collaborative science and technology innovation will become an inevitable trend for enhancing comprehensive innovation capacity. Third, jump out of specific innovation activities. Place the current science and technology innovation activities within the historical laws of human development, science and technology development, and national policy development to grasp opportunities.
(2) Innovation means change. First, change fixed ways of thinking. Second, innovate governance methods. Third, innovate talent management mechanisms.
V. Strengthen public authority and accelerate the allocation of public resources
Strengthening the construction of public authority is an urgent strategic task for science and technology innovation to meet future challenges. (1) Think tank construction. The purpose of creating think tanks is to provide forward-looking intelligence and intellectual support for development for science and technology innovation. (2) Support system construction. The support system is the service system for science and technology innovation activities, oriented toward the strategic needs of contemporary and future science and technology innovation. It has overall and strategic significance and mainly includes the following aspects: 1. Create a science and technology innovation development fund. 2. Create a big data platform. 3. Create and upgrade a national-level comprehensive experimental platform. 4. Create a science and technology achievement testing and display platform. 5. Create a technology product innovation and industrialization innovation realization platform.
VI. Enhance the manufacturing capacity of discourse power and build a discourse power dissemination system
Discourse power refers to a potential real influence. The discourse power of science and technology innovation activities is the ability to influence in a certain field. Enhancing the discourse power of science and technology innovation activities mainly depends on the following aspects: First, adhere to original independent innovation. Second, adhere to two orientations. One is problem orientation, and the other is demand orientation. Third, build a platform for the exchange of science and technology achievements.