The Launch Ceremony of the 3rd Foshan High - value Patent Achievement Transfer and Transformation Competition Held

Source: IPR Daily

On the morning of April 25, Foshan City hosted the 2025 Intellectual Property Conference and the launch ceremony of the 3rd Foshan High-Value Patent Achievement Transfer and Transformation Competition (referred to as the "High - Transfer Competition").

Since 2023, Foshan has successfully held two editions of the Competition, facilitating 31 patent projects through licensing, transfer, or equity investment, with nearly 50 projects implemented. These efforts have driven additional investment, financing, and expansion funds totaling nearly 10 billion yuan, laying a solid foundation of practical experience, resources, and brand reputation for the new edition.

The 3rd High - Transfer Competition officially kicked off under the witness of the attending leaders. This year's competition adheres to the goal of "Re - creating a New Foshan", with the theme of "Gathering New Momentum to Help Build a New Foshan". It systematically improves and innovates the competition mechanisms such as group settings, track models, and service guarantees, promoting the competition to a higher level and greater efficiency. The Foshan Administration for Market Regulation has specially established a patent transformation and application special team to closely follow up and promote the transformation progress of the competition projects and improve the effectiveness of patent transformation.

Targeted Efforts in Group Stratification

Based on the start - up group and the growth group, this year's competition has added a local group. The start - up group (un - industrialized projects from universities and research institutes) builds a bridge for the transformation of "laboratory achievements"; the growth group (industrialized projects of enterprises outside the city) attracts mature technologies to land in Foshan; the local group (projects in Foshan awaiting transformation and application) solves the problem of "difficult transformation" of patent technology achievements of local enterprises in Foshan, revitalizes the stock of patents, and stimulates market growth.

Simultaneous Development of Three Industries in Track Design

The competition closely follows Foshan's industrial development blueprint, broadens the industrial tracks, extends the original "6 + 2" industrial tracks to N frontier fields such as new power equipment, blockchain, and quantum information, and forms a "6 + N" track system mainly composed of 6 strategic emerging industries, taking into account Foshan's traditional advantageous industries and future industries. This comprehensively aligns with Foshan's "Intelligent Manufacturing Strong City" industrial layout, leading to the all - around development of the industry.

Full - Chain Closed - Loop in Service Ecology

The competition optimizes the project landing services, explores and establishes a selection and evaluation mechanism for patent transformation and application demonstration bases and a project docking service mechanism. It further converges resource elements such as platform institutions, industrial parks, scientific and technological finance, and professional talents, and improves the full - factor and whole - process patent transformation and application service ecological chain of "pre - competition excavation - mid - competition cultivation - post - competition landing", providing "one - stop" transformation ecological support for the participating projects, enabling seamless connection of innovative achievements from the competition field to the market.

It is worth noting that at the conference site, Foshan launched a WeChat mini - program for the patent transformation and application digital service platform. This platform integrates functional modules such as the "Competition Center", "Patent Market", "Policy Think - Tank", and "Transformation Services", providing "fingertip - based" full - cycle services for innovation entities, further enhancing the convenience of competition services and accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productive forces.

The 3rd High - Transfer Competition is sponsored by the People's Government of Foshan City and the Intellectual Property Development Research Center of the China National Intellectual Property Administration, organized by the The Foshan Administration for Market Regulation (Intellectual Property Administration) and the Foshan Talent Work Bureau, supported by the China Office of the World Intellectual Property Organization, and specifically implemented by the Foshan Quality and Standardization Research Institute and Shenzhen Gaozhiliang Intellectual Property Operation Co., Ltd.

This year's competition will be held from April to December, mainly divided into five stages: project solicitation, preliminary round, semi - final, final, and award - giving ceremony. The total prize money for the competition is 1.3 million yuan, with 3 gold awards, 6 silver awards, and 10 bronze awards. The gold award has a high prize of 150,000 yuan. In addition, landing demonstration projects, best cooperation units, and best organization awards will be selected. With the launch of the competition, the registration channel has been officially opened. All innovation entities can register for the competition through the Foshan Patent Transformation and Application Digital Service Platform (http://www.foshanip.cn). The registration deadline is July 2025.

Source: IPR Daily