Science And Technology Serving The "Fourth Party": The Innovative Ecological Evolution Theory Of Doctoral Science And Technology

In July this year, doctor technology, a service provider of scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer, disclosed the pre-A round of financing with a scale of over 100 million yuan. The funds obtained will be used for the continuous research and development of the company's "doctor cloud" information service platform and national business expansion.

Doctoral science and technology originated from Guangzhou doctor Club initiated by Guangzhou municipal government in 2001. Since 2004, it has been transformed into market-oriented operation in the form of a company. Today, its main business includes transformation of scientific and technological innovation achievements, project incubation operation, industrial landing and technology trading services.

This round of financing is the first round of external financing since the establishment of Ph.D. technology company for 16 years. "The most important thing in technology transfer is to understand the industry and penetrate the industry." Ni Hao, President of doctoral science and technology, revealed in an interview with 21st century economic reporter that the company's next goal is to become the "first share of technology transfer" in China's capital market.

Behind the 100 million yuan pre-A round of financing

According to the information disclosed by the doctor of science and technology, the total scale of pre-A round financing completed is more than 100 million yuan, and the investment is led by cyberroth group. Communication with more investors is still in progress. That is to say, there will be at least one more round of financing before the company goes public.

Saibole is quite unique in China's VC industry. Its mode is "technology + capital + internationalization". There is no lack of "co creation" concept in investment. Zhu Min, the founder and chairman of CyberWorks group, was a model of technology entrepreneurship before transforming investors.

Zhu Min was sent by the state government to study in Stanford University in the 1980s, and founded WebX for network conference and video conference in Silicon Valley.

"WebX is also a technology transfer case. It has been invested by NEA and has grown into a $3.2 billion company." Zhu Min said. Today, among the active technology entrepreneurs in the entrepreneurial field in China and the United States, Yuan Zheng, founder of zoom, Zhu Jun, co-founder of musical.ly, and Zhao Bin, founder of soundnet, all have WebX experience.

In 2004, Zhu Min officially entered the venture capital industry as NEA investment partner. NEA was exploring investment in China at that time, and projects in the same period included SMIC international, Spreadtrum and red kids. After returning to China to establish the CyberWorks group, Zhu Min officially took the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements as a main line. His projects include concentrating technology, Lianlian technology, getui, Panshi, Xuhang, etc.

"We hope to build innovative technology enterprises systematically and in batches. Our "all government and local science and technology foundation and local science and technology foundation jointly promote the transformation of intellectual property rights" Zhu Min said.

According to the 21st century economic report, in addition to capital investment, cybertronics will also cooperate with doctoral science and technology in fund investment and the industrialization of innovative enterprises.

Commanding heights of science and technology services

It is worth noting that the next capital target of doctoral science and technology is "technology transfer first share", rather than "technology service first share" in a broader sense.

According to the "several opinions of the State Council on accelerating the development of science and technology service industry (GF [2014] No. 49)" in 2014, we will focus on the development of professional and comprehensive scientific and technological services, such as research and development, technology transfer, inspection and testing certification, entrepreneurship incubation, intellectual property rights, science and technology consultation, science and technology finance, science and technology popularization.

Ni Hao told the 21st century economic reporter in an interview in July this year that the current situation in the field of science and technology services can be summarized as small, scattered, single point and passive. The entry threshold of science and technology service industry is very low, but it is very difficult to advance.

"It is more than 10 times more difficult to do pan science and technology services and focus on technology transfer." In Ni Hao's opinion, the moat of technology transfer is recessive, and the requirements for Industry cognition are particularly high. Therefore, only by occupying the commanding height of technology transfer can we build up the whole science and technology service format.

After the completion of the financing, Dr. technology quickly launched two major measures: on the day of the financing disclosure, the doctor's information service platform "doctor cloud" was officially launched; the next day, the team launched a new phase of "innovation partner" plan to the partners in Shanghai.

According to the reporter's understanding, doctor technology has achieved sufficient business income guarantee. In the past 10 years, about 67 million yuan has been invested in platform tool development with its own business income. The core reason why the company started external financing this time is that it needs more funds and resources to invest in the doctoral cloud platform.

Innovation ecology "the fourth party"

"From the outside, we've been a bit slow over the last 16 years." Ni Hao said, "the past will be slow to achieve. The most difficult step is to get into the next one

In the innovation ecology outlined by the doctor's science and technology team, government, enterprises, universities, talents and financial capital are the suppliers and demanders of innovation elements and resources. There are also third-party service organizations in the ecology, including scientific and technological achievements transformation service institutions, third-party technical managers, professional science and Technology Service Institutions and third-party information platform.

In this ecology, as the "fourth party", doctoral science and technology carries the functions of resource gathering operation, supply and demand information audit and release, docking activity organization, talent cultivation, science and technology consulting service, industrialization tracking service and fund operation through the doctor cloud platform.

At the same time, as the ecological framework of "science and technology" has taken shape, doctoral science and technology continues to expand its regional scope in the mode of "innovation partner".

Before that, Dr. S & T has set up 32 subsidiary companies with its own team in China, and more than 20 regional technology markets have formally undertaken and participated in the operation. "Innovation partner" mode will speed up the company's business expansion in various regions.

Tang Lina, executive vice president of doctoral science and technology, told reporters that the product and service system including the doctor cloud platform will provide platform, tool and methodology support for innovation partners with local resources; the information and data obtained through innovation partners will be deposited in the innovation big data platform, which on the one hand serves as the data source of the Internet platform for scientific and technological innovation, on the other hand It is used as a decision reference for subsequent scenario expansion.

"Ecological success, self transaction." Ni Hao, referring to the transformation process of scientific research achievements, said that doctoral science and technology has completed the small and medium-sized trials, and has officially entered into large-scale mass production.