Deepening the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Around Universities and Research Institutes
Inside the test chamber, the thruster emits a blue flame with strong power.
“It is now the end of April, and in five months, this electric propulsion system will complete its in-orbit verification. We are accelerating mass production of the product, thanks to the strong support from the Advanced Technology Research Institute of Harbin Institute of Technology.” As a key engine of the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem around Harbin Institute of Technology, the Advanced Technology Research Institute has nurtured 60 enterprises in just over two years since its establishment. Among them, 48 companies were directly generated from the local transformation of scientific and technological achievements from Harbin Institute of Technology.
In September 2023, during an inspection in Heilongjiang, a national leader pointed out: “Integrate scientific and technological innovation resources, lead the development of strategic emerging industries and future industries, and accelerate the formation of new productive forces.” The 15th Five-Year Plan outline proposes to “accelerate the efficient transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements.”
To thoroughly implement these important directives and the decisions of the central leadership, Heilongjiang has leveraged its rich advantages in scientific and innovation resources. It has planned and built the first batch of seven innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems around universities and research institutes, creating a system that deeply integrates industry, academia, and research, with comprehensive interaction among various innovation elements. In 2025, the province transformed 662 major scientific and technological achievements, with new economic benefits increasing by 21.5%.
Striving forward during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Heilongjiang continues to deepen the construction of innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems around universities and research institutes, accelerating the industrialization of high-tech achievements to lead comprehensive industrial revitalization.
From element aggregation to institutional breakthroughs, optimizing the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
The deep-processing dairy product team from Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University fully experienced the “good climate” for entrepreneurship. They attracted 10 million yuan in investment to establish a food company, with five solid dairy product production lines soon to be operational.
“The production lines have an annual capacity of about 38,000 tons, with sales revenue reaching 1.8 billion yuan,” said the team leader confidently. “Previously, we didn’t know the way, but now the ecosystem has helped us break through entrepreneurial barriers.”
Measures such as separate management of job-related scientific and technological achievements, exploring a transformation model of “agreed returns plus full empowerment,” door-to-door services by technology managers, and rapid allocation of funds and other elements have broken institutional ice and sparked entrepreneurial passion, with continuous “thrust” along the way. In 2025, within the seven innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems around universities and research institutes, 1,015 technology contracts were signed within the province, with a transaction value exceeding 1.4 billion yuan.
“This year, we will further optimize institutional construction, enhance service efficiency, allow researchers to enjoy more autonomy and benefits in achievement transformation, and enable more scientific research results to move from the ‘bookshelf’ to the ‘shelf.'”
Leverage the innovation chain, activate the industrial chain, and promote cluster development of industries.
The avian influenza-related vaccine research, development, and production platform of a biotechnology company achieves full-process automation from plasmid construction to product packaging.
“Relying on the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem around Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, we have transformed over 120 scientific and technological achievements from the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, generating direct economic benefits of 5 billion yuan,” said the company president. “Within the ecosystem, a collaborative industrial ecology is gradually forming, driving the cluster development of the bio-economy industry.”
Building ecosystems into chains, gathering chains into momentum, innovation forces are rapidly unleashed. Currently, the seven innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems around universities and research institutes have gathered 2,393 technology-based enterprises, with 323 newly generated through technology transfer and equity investment.
Now, Heilongjiang is deeply implementing the action to accelerate the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, promoting more achievements from samples to products and then to industries, transforming the “variable” of scientific and technological innovation into the
Advanced Technology Research Institute of Harbin Institute of Technology
Advanced Technology Research Institute of Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology
Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University
Harbin Veterinary Research Institute
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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