This week, the child went to his uncle's house with his grandfather for a few days. My father and I have "freedom" to go out on weekends. Last Sunday, we went to the nearby city to visit the doctoral students. The students happened to work in the R & D Department of a well-known enterprise. Through communication and exchange with the students, we learned more about the R & D work of the enterprise, although we didn't really visit the laboratory, However, during the visit and understanding of the park, we have at least a more intuitive understanding of the organizational structure of relevant enterprises and the functions of technology R & D departments. It should be said that we have more perceptual knowledge of enterprise R & D work. Considering that I have no working experience in an enterprise, I have worked for more than five years since I graduated from my doctor's degree. Before, I had been working in the Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and then I changed my job from the north to the South last year. Now, my new work unit is also a research institution similar to the nature of a research institute, but it is more inclined to enterprise management.

After nearly a year's new work, we can clearly feel some differences between the South and the north. The exchanges between research institutions and enterprises here are more active, and most of them are private enterprises. In addition, the government also attaches importance to technology and innovation. Of course, the ultimate goal is to have more technical achievements that can be landed locally and drive the local economy to flourish. In addition, we can also clearly feel some differences between the traditional research institute model and the newly established research institutions. The former has strong research strength and many small teams. The large team is more capable of applying for large projects or long-term cooperation from the government or large enterprises, while the small team still applies for national projects or intermittent cooperation with some enterprises in the traditional model, At present, the development of large teams will be better and better, but the development of a large number of small teams is more and more difficult due to the lack of stable funding sources. In fact, they are competing with large-scale college teachers for a small number of research funding resources, but college teachers still have teaching responsibilities after all, and can obtain greater stable support based on this payment. By some chance, I left the original unit with the team and changed to the current unit. Considering that the unit is also a research institute, our team will also face the problem of self positioning, but there is no doubt that our team must carry out technical cooperation with relevant enterprises in the market, cooperate with enterprises to develop our advantageous new technologies, and consider setting up a company to promote and develop our new technologies or products, At present, combined with the actual situation, the team will jointly develop new technologies and products through cooperation with relevant enterprises or units and the establishment of a company. It may also be taking a relatively hard road of technology transformation. However, considering that the cooperative enterprises have better market experience, which can make up for the lack of market understanding of our researchers to a certain extent, and we as researchers can mainly give full play to our technical advantages, which may make this road easier.

As researchers of research institutions, on the one hand, they should lay a good foundation and strive to apply for national or provincial basic research projects. On the other hand, they should compete with college teachers for basic research funding support. On the other hand, they should do a good job in application transformation, strive to understand the market demand for new technologies and develop new technologies or products that can meet the market requirements, Or help relevant enterprises solve some technical needs of basic research. In short, researchers in institutions with the nature of research institutes should pay equal attention to basic and applied research, and even pay more attention to technology R & D related to application transformation, which will also be closely related to researchers' income or financial support. However, through the previous visit to the large-scale well-known enterprise, especially the understanding of its R & D department structure, I have some different views on the technical cooperation between research institutions and enterprises. I didn't expect that some large enterprises would have a special R & D department with a scale of 10000 people. According to the students, the R & D Department of the enterprise has nearly 5000 to 6000 people, On the one hand, each product division has a R & D department specially responsible for solving the technical problems fed back by the market, on the other hand, there is a central research institute specially responsible for solving the common technical problems fed back by each division or more cutting-edge technologies that need long-term research. At that time, after listening to the introduction of my classmates, I suddenly felt that a large enterprise of this scale may mainly rely on its own R & D department to solve technical problems. In the end, there may be a few technical problems that need to be solved by universities or scientific research institutions. After all, its own R & D and technical strength is strong, and its R & D is more biased towards market demand, Relevant R & D personnel also know more about their own technical problems. Of course, such enterprises should always pay attention to cutting-edge new technologies. If some universities or research institutions have new technologies they need, such enterprises should also be willing to seek technical cooperation.

In addition, I also remember that a R & D Department of another well-known local enterprise took the initiative to find our team to understand and negotiate relevant cooperation space. The relevant technical field is indeed the field in which our team has nearly 20 years of R & D experience. Through communication and exchange with them, I found that as enterprise R & D personnel, they do have a deeper understanding of relevant products and market demand prospects. Our team mainly studied one of the most critical components before, but did not assemble the whole equipment, or we did not have power or sufficient funds to support us to do such a thing, but as far as I know, The enterprise has a team of 30 ~ 40 people engaged in the research and development of such a device, which involves various key components of the device. The small team to communicate with us is responsible for the research and development of the same components that our team has been studying, so they find our team and hope to have more technical cooperation, This will also help their enterprises make faster progress in the research and development of relevant components.

Based on this, I think the cooperation between enterprises and scientific research institutions may be more due to the technical needs of their own development. The R & D personnel of relevant enterprises are also willing to actively communicate and cooperate with the personnel of universities or research institutions. Of course, if the personnel of scientific research institutions can quickly understand that the R & D Department of enterprises is carrying out similar R & D, they can also actively contact technical cooperation, This should be a good thing for both sides. On the one hand, we should make good use of each other's network resources. On the other hand, we may also be able to provide some information through patents or papers, or there may be special technical intermediaries to provide relevant cooperation information. In the final analysis, the R & D personnel of scientific research institutions should take the initiative to communicate with the outside world. Patents, papers and even take the initiative to find more opportunities to visit enterprises. There may always be a lot of gains. However, the above talks about cooperation with large-scale enterprises. In fact, for some small-scale enterprises, they also have technical needs. In this regard, researchers may be required to find more opportunities to communicate and exchange needs with the person in charge of the enterprise and find an entry point for cooperation. However, researchers' time is limited and their understanding of information is still limited, In this regard, there is an urgent need for some technology intermediaries to provide information services, including providing a series of technical services such as technical solutions and contract signing. At present, the State encourages technology transfer and transformation, which is indeed a good outlet and worthy of further exploration and thinking.