Cheng Lin, a professor at the School of Microelectronics at the University of Science and Technology of China, has been busy lately. Before the Spring Festival this year, Cheng Lin led the establishment of Hefei Chengling Microelectronics Co., LTD., engaged in high-end power management chip research and development, design and sales.

The new company is still in its infancy, which is not a small challenge for Cheng Lin, who has been doing research in the lab. "I work in chip design, so I'm particularly connected to industry. There's a lot of demand right now, and I want my research to actually solve problems in the industry, not just publish papers." Cheng Lin said.

Despite the idea of starting a business, Cheng Lin has not been put into action. "Scientific research personnel office of scientific and technological achievements property belongs to the school, the school to" evaluate ", a need for intellectual property rights and the transformation companies cautious assessment, approval process is cumbersome, and may even have to wait a year or two." Cheng Lin said, "Many cutting-edge achievements will lose the opportunity of industrialization in this long cycle."

This time, from preparation to the establishment of the new company, it took less than two months. Originally, in May 2020, the Ministry of Science and Technology and other nine departments issued the "Pilot Implementation Plan for granting scientific and Technological Achievements ownership or long-term use rights to scientific and technological researchers", and USTC became one of the pilots. The University of Science and Technology of China has specially formulated the implementation plan, which plans to actively promote the "empowerment before transformation" of no less than 30 scientific and technological achievements in the pilot period of three years by giving scientific and technological personnel the ownership or long-term use right, stimulate the enthusiasm and creativity of scientific and technological personnel engaged in transformation work, and promote the application of scientific and technological achievements.

"According to the current system, the university can give part of the intellectual property rights of the scientific and technological achievements of the position to the individual or team of researchers, so that we can directly organize the team, set up a company, and start the transformation." At the same time, the school does not need to buy shares immediately, and the decision-making risk is controllable." Cheng Lin said.

According to reports, at present, USTC has empowered more than 30 pilot reserve projects, and has received more than 20 applications for empowered projects, of which 9 have entered the publicity stage. Our reporter Xu Jing

People's Daily (Edition 07, March 24, 2022)