Let enterprises truly become the main body of technological innovation in the energy field

Recently, the National Energy Administration and the Ministry of Science and Technology jointly issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Energy Field", which clearly put forward the overall goal of energy science and technology innovation before 2025, and focused on advanced renewable energy, new power systems, safe and efficient nuclear energy, green and efficient fossil energy development and utilization, energy digitalization and intelligence, etc., and determined the tasks of technology focused research, demonstration test and application promotion, as well as relevant technology roadmaps, demonstration projects, policy measures, etc. It points out the direction for scientific and technological innovation in the energy field. Lv Jianzhong, full-time deputy director of the National High-end Think Tank Research Center of China National Petroleum Corporation and secretary-general of the Academic Committee, proposed that the effective implementation of these planning tasks and projects must effectively implement the main position of enterprise innovation.

Scientific and technological innovation determines the future of energy

There is a famous quote in the book "A Brief History of Mankind": "The core of the industrial revolution is actually the revolution of energy conversion." "And the core of the energy transition revolution is clearly the technological revolution. In today's world, innovation has become the first driving force to lead the development of energy transition, and the global energy industry is shifting from resource- and capital-led to technology-led, and the main position and leading role of enterprises in innovation will be further highlighted. With a large number of emerging energy technologies such as renewable energy, unconventional oil and gas, nuclear energy, energy storage, hydrogen energy, and smart energy accelerating iteration at an unprecedented speed, global energy technology innovation has entered a highly active period.

China is the world's largest energy producer and consumer. Under the overall requirements of carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, ecological civilization construction and "six stability and six guarantees", the energy industry is facing severe challenges such as ensuring safety, changing modes, adjusting structure, and making up for shortcomings, and the demand for scientific and technological innovation is more urgent than ever. In recent years, driven by the energy revolution and the digital revolution, the energy transformation with scientific and technological innovation as the main line has driven the optimization and upgrading of related industries, and various new models and new business formats have been emerging, and new energy enterprises are playing an increasingly important role in promoting energy transformation and industrial development.

There is still an obvious gap between China's energy science and technology innovation and the internal requirements of the world's energy science and technology power and leading the energy revolution, which is highlighted by: some energy technology and equipment still have shortcomings and the advantages of the long board are not obvious, the policy mechanism to promote energy science and technology innovation needs to be improved, and the power vitality of independent innovation of enterprises is insufficient. In particular, some key components, special software, basic materials, etc. rely heavily on foreign countries, and there are few original, leading, and disruptive technologies, and the main position and leading role of enterprises in the integration and innovation of "government, industry, academia, research and application" are not enough.

Therefore, in the "14th Five-Year Plan" and even a longer period in the future, China must insist on putting innovation at the core of the overall energy transformation and development, focus on achieving self-reliance and self-improvement in energy science and technology, rely on improving the energy innovation system, and give full play to the main role of enterprise technological innovation as the starting point, focus on strengthening the shortcomings of energy technology and equipment and forging the long board of energy technology and equipment, support and enhance the continuous and stable supply of energy and risk management and control capabilities, and lead the construction of a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system.

Give full play to the role of enterprises as the main body of innovation

Enterprises are in the front line of industry and market, with a high degree of sensitivity to market and technological changes, and are the main force for the close integration of science and technology with the economy. To strengthen the main position of enterprise innovation is to make enterprises truly become the main force in technological innovation decision-making, R&D investment, scientific research organization, and achievement transformation, and play a leading role.

Energy enterprises are the main body of the transformation and development of the energy industry, the questioners, respondents and markers of major technological innovations, and the main force of technical research and the main battlefield of demonstration and promotion. Especially as an important weapon of the country, energy central enterprises are the main body of the main body.

After long-term accumulation of technological innovation capabilities, energy central enterprises play a leading role in the implementation of major national scientific and technological research and the development of cutting-edge technologies. In the face of the new situation, new tasks and new challenges, energy central enterprises should actively become the main force to make up for the shortcomings of energy technology and equipment, and build the source of original technology and the "chain leader" of the modern energy industry chain. At the same time, it is also necessary to encourage private enterprises to strengthen energy technology innovation, increase R&D investment, focus on market segments, master "unique skills", and undertake key technological innovation tasks independently or jointly with relevant parties.

Compared with the scientific and technological innovation model of developed countries, the status and role of Chinese enterprises in the national scientific and technological innovation system are not high, the voice in the national science and technology plan is not enough, and the tasks undertaken in the national innovation platform and science and technology projects are still less.

In the future implementation of scientific and technological innovation plans in the energy field, more energy enterprises should be allowed to undertake the construction and operation of major national scientific research platforms, support energy central enterprises to lead national science and technology plan projects or topics, and widely participate in the research and development of specific projects and topics in the national science and technology plan. At the same time, we will further strengthen policy guidance and promote more enterprises to carry out basic research and applied basic research, so as to lay a solid foundation for achieving more original breakthroughs.

Accelerate technology iteration and overlay with integrated innovation

Looking back at the history of human technological progress, there are few technologies that are absolutely new. The so-called new technologies are mostly improvements, expansions, upgrades and superimpositions on the basis of old technologies. In today's world, technology iteration and superimposed innovation are becoming more and more extensive, which requires scientific research, development, design, production, sales, marketing and other elements to quickly reach cooperation like building blocks to complete tasks that could not be completed before and solve problems that were difficult to solve before.

The original meaning of iteration is the activity of repeating the feedback process, usually with the aim of approximating the desired goal or outcome. Each repetition of the process is called an iteration, and the result of each iteration is used as the initial value for the next iteration. It can be deduced that technology iteration refers to the replacement or upgrading of emerging technologies to traditional technologies through technological innovation. For example, human beings began to study lithium batteries 50 years ago, and today, when lithium battery technology can be accelerated commercialization, fuel cells, solid-state batteries, graphene batteries, air batteries and other battery technology routes are also blooming, which is a kind of technology iteration.

More importantly, with the breakthrough of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, gene editing, nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing, new energy and other technologies and their extensive penetration in various fields, a large number of technologies similar to Internet +, intelligent +, and new energy + have been formed, and the technology superposition in each field almost shows an exponential growth law similar to Moore's law, which has greatly accelerated the pace of scientific and technological innovation. In this era of technological progress far faster than anyone can imagine, it is becoming more and more difficult to try to achieve the ultimate in a single technology, and trying to achieve the ultimate in a technology is no longer the secret of success. On the contrary, it is through the overlay of technology that we can create a unique core competitiveness.

There is no doubt that the process of technology iteration and superposition is full of exploration, and it is often necessary to move the perspective of innovation away from the old technology track and break through the fixed technical routes and models, so as to open up the development space of heterogeneous technologies and emerging technologies. In this context, it is necessary to establish a cross-border knowledge fusion mechanism. As far as the energy field is concerned, the breakthrough of any key core technology is difficult to be completed by one enterprise independently, and it is necessary to introduce a five-in-one integration and innovation model of "government, industry, academia, research and application". It is necessary not only to give full play to the role of the government in optimizing and integrating innovation resources, increase the supply of common technical capabilities, but also to give full play to the role of enterprises as the main body of innovation.

Support enterprises to take the lead in uniting scientific research institutions, universities, social service organizations, etc., focus on key areas of energy, jointly initiate the establishment of strategic alliances for industrial technology innovation, and promote the docking and integration of basic energy research, applied research and technological innovation. Promote the linkage between central enterprises and local enterprises, and the coordination between state-owned enterprises and private enterprises, organize the strong alliance of advantageous enterprises in the industrial chain and the in-depth cooperation of industry, university and research, and concentrate superior resources to break through the key core technologies that restrict development. Eventually, a development pattern of energy transformation and innovation will be formed, in which large enterprises "stand tall in the sky" and small enterprises "spread all over the world".

In the course of deepening reform and opening up, we should achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance

In Science: The Endless Frontier, Vanneva Bush wrote: "Science and technology are the new frontiers of the country, and by strengthening basic research and encouraging free exploration, we can continue to push the frontiers and expand new territories." "The energy revolution and transformation and development are also the "frontier expansion" of human beings in energy technology, and it is necessary to establish an open innovation ecology, inject innovation vitality through reform, and constantly generate and create new knowledge, new technologies, new products and promote their application.

Standing at a new historical starting point, we need to continue to emphasize planning scientific and technological innovation from a global perspective and actively integrating into the global innovation network. China's energy science and technology innovation and development are inseparable from the world, and the world's energy transformation and development also needs China. We cannot simply understand independent innovation and scientific and technological self-reliance in the energy field as "self-innovation", let alone simply immerse ourselves in existing achievements and advantages. We should adhere to the opening up to the outside world, actively promote energy science and technology cooperation with countries along the "Belt and Road", and guide domestic and foreign energy-related enterprises, scientific research institutions, and universities to cooperate in the field of energy science and technology. We have the courage to break the boundaries of the industry, smooth the communication between the main body of innovation and the external environment in terms of knowledge, personnel, technology, capital, etc., and be good at transforming the advantages of the system and system into the actual effect of technological innovation.

It is necessary to focus on improving the energy science and technology innovation system, integrating and optimizing scientific and technological resources, and adopting new mechanisms such as "unveiling the leader", "horse racing" and "owner system" to guide all kinds of social capital to invest in the field of energy science and technology innovation. We should persist in taking scientific and technological personnel and scientific and technological activities as the center, taking the initiative, enthusiasm, and creativity of scientific and technological personnel as the foundation, and promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productive forces as the goal, and carry out a thorough reform of the scientific and technological system and mechanism with strong administrative colors. Vigorously advocate the spirit of science, entrepreneurship, craftsmanship and initiative, promote the concept of respecting knowledge, talents, labor and innovation, and create an energy innovation ecology where everyone participates in innovation, supports innovation, and is full of vitality and vitality.

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