Notice on the 2017 Shanghai Academician and Expert Workstation Application Workstation

Enterprises in each park:

  In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Plenary Sessions of the 18th Central Committee, give full play to the important role of high-end intelligence represented by academicians in promoting Shanghai to accelerate the construction of a science and technology innovation center with global influence, guide various innovation factors to gather in enterprises, promote collaborative innovation in industry, academia and research and the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, cultivate and develop innovative talents, and continuously enhance the independent innovation capabilities of enterprises, in accordance with the "Guiding Opinions of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology on Promoting the Construction of Academician and Expert Workstations" and the "Shanghai Academician and Expert Workstation Management Measures", it is now decided to carry out the website construction application for the Shanghai Academician and Expert Workstation in 2017.The relevant matters are notified as follows:

Application Type

Shanghai Academician and Expert Workstation (hereinafter referred to as Workstation) is divided into two types: "Academician and Expert Workstation" and "Academician and Expert Service Center" according to the subject of the application for website construction.A single enterprise and institution can apply to establish an academician and expert workstation;Parks with concentrated enterprises (including national and municipal development zones, industrial bases, incubators, etc.), industry associations (federations), large group companies, etc. can apply to establish academician and expert service centers.

Application conditions

1、The applicant must be an enterprise, institution or social group registered in Shanghai, with independent legal person qualifications, good production and operation conditions, and a certain scale.Among them, the unit applying for establishing a service center should have radiation service functions for specific regions or industrial chains.

2、The development direction of the applicant unit must comply with the national or Shanghai strategic emerging industries, or be a major people's livelihood industry, and the demand for scientific and technological innovation is compatible with the regional economic structure, which can lead the development of high-tech industries or promote the upgrading and transformation of traditional industries.

3、The applicant unit should have a clear direction of technological innovation development and technological innovation needs, a clear cooperation task for R&D projects or results transformation, which is closely related to the research areas of cooperative academicians and experts, and can provide stable funding support.In principle, the company's R&D investment shall not be less than 3% of the annual sales. 

4、The applicant unit should have strong R&D capabilities, and have special R&D institutions, supporting R&D facilities, and a scientific research team with high level and reasonable structure. Among them, R&D personnel account for more than 5% of the total number of employees in the unit that year.

5、The applicant unit can meet the guarantee conditions for academicians and experts to enter the station, mainly including organizational provision, scientific research funding support, office space, logistics services, etc.

6、The application units are municipal science and technology giant enterprises, high-tech enterprises, "specialized, specialized, and new" small and medium-sized enterprises, enterprises with R&D carriers such as municipal (including) and above enterprise technology centers, engineering technology research centers, key laboratories, postdoctoral research workstations, and enterprises that undertake major national or provincial (municipal)-level scientific and technological innovation projects will be given priority to the establishment of workstations.

Application materials

1、Units applying for the establishment of academician and expert workstations please fill out the "Shanghai Academician and Expert Workstation Application Form" (Appendix 1);Units applying for establishing academician and expert service centers please fill out the "Shanghai Academician and Expert Service Center Application Form" (Appendix 2).

2、Provide other relevant supporting materials: copies of corporate business license, qualification certificate, honor certificate and other supporting materials;Basic information on the plan to hire academicians and experts (Appendix 3);If there is a cooperation agreement, provide a copy of the relevant documents.

Application procedure

1、The deadline for this year's application is October 31, 2017.

2、Written application materials must be submitted in six copies, stamped with the unit’s official seal (cover seal and riding seal), and submit the electronic version of the application materials at the same time.

3、In principle, the application unit should be initially reviewed and recommended to apply through the district science and technology association where the registration is located.Shanghai's "specialized, specialized and new" small and medium-sized enterprises can be reviewed and recommended through the Shanghai Coordination Office for Promoting the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises;Municipal state-owned enterprises can pass the preliminary review and recommendation application by the Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.

4、The preliminary review unit is responsible for receiving and formal review of application materials, and is responsible for organizing on-site research by the application unit. After confirming the recommendation and stamping the official seal, it is uniformly submitted to the Secretariat of the Shanghai Academician and Expert Workstation Guidance Office.

5、The Secretariat is responsible for re-examination of the application materials, the office regularly organizes experts to conduct reviews, and the application unit conducts on-site defense.If the evaluation is passed, the guidance office will be approved and the bronze medal will be issued.

6、The associations, associations, research associations under the Municipal Science and Technology Association, as well as the science and technology associations and academicians and expert service centers of various parks are encouraged to actively participate in the construction of workstations, carry out industry-university-research docking services, and recommend qualified enterprises and institutions to apply for website construction.

7、The naming format of workstations can be divided into: "Full name of the declaration unit" according to the declaration type. ＋Academician and Expert Workstation", or "full name of the application unit ＋Academician and Expert Service Center”, signed by the approval agency and relevant units.

Contact information

Shanghai Science and Technology Park

51613988*8007  Teacher Zhang

Attachment download:

Application form for Shanghai Academician and Expert Workstation

Application Form of Shanghai Academician Expert Service Center

Information form for recruiting experts