According to Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Resources Coordination Service Center (also known as Jiangsu Proprietary Technology Exchange Center), Jiangsu is scaling up its two flagship technology transfer campaigns this year: the Technology Achievement (Patent) Auction Season and the J-TOP Innovation Challenge Season. The province plans to roll out 20 themed offline matchmaking sessions and 200 technology transfer micro-events, fostering a dynamic ecosystem for translating research results into market-ready products marked by frequent supply-demand matchmaking events and multi-stakeholder participation.

These campaigns are co-sponsored by Jiangsu Provincial Department of Science and Technology, the Talent Work Office of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee, Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, Jiangsu Provincial Administration for Market Regulation, and Jiangsu Intellectual Property Administration, and jointly organized by Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Resources Coordination Service Center (Jiangsu Proprietary Technology Exchange Center) alongside partner institutions.

The Auction Season centers on the supply end: it collects scientific breakthroughs (patents) from universities, research institutes and other R&D entities, and speeds up their market uptake via online auctions. The Innovation Challenge Season follows a demand-driven model. It solicits and releases corporate technical bottlenecks, while encouraging research teams from universities and research institutions to submit targeted technical solutions. Since their debut in 2020, these two campaigns have delivered over 3,000 transactions with a cumulative turnover topping RMB 1.8 billion.

This year’s events will zero in on 10 strategic emerging sectors, including biomedicine, information and communications, advanced new materials, high-end equipment manufacturing, shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment, new energy, and AI. Under the pilot university-high-tech zone cooperation mechanism, the number of jointly organized offline themed matchmaking events has increased by eight compared with last year. Across all industrial tracks, advanced new materials and high-end equipment manufacturing will each host five exclusive matchmaking sessions, outnumbering all other industries.

Drawing on the nationwide branch center network of Jiangsu Proprietary Technology Exchange Center, the additional 200, mostly offline, micro-events deliver compact, high-frequency supply-demand matching services. These sessions will bring together the expertise of technical managers, science and technology commissioners, industrial professors, metrology specialists and other professionals to deliver dedicated technology transfer services to the far ends of more segmented industrial sectors. It is estimated that this series of micro-events will attract participation from more than 100 universities and research institutes, over 500 technical managers, and upwards of 10,000 visits of innovation entities throughout the year.