Hubei strictly controls equipment purchase fees for the first time

“The cost of testing that we used for testing with other scientific instruments last year was immediately reimbursed, and there are tens of thousands of dollars!” Yesterday, Ms. Wang, a member of the enterprise technology department of Optics Valley, told reporters happily that she was from the Science and Technology Department of Hubei Province. The website saw that from April 1st to 30th, high-tech enterprises and technology-based incubators in Hubei Province can apply for subsidies for the use of shared equipment.

The company can not do without experimentation and testing, but the investment in experiments and testing instruments is large. Most startup companies cannot afford to purchase; on the other hand, the use of financial equipment purchased by universities and colleges is very low. The instrument will not be used several times a year, and it will be locked in the lab all year round. To this end, the Hubei Provincial Department of Science and Technology collects scientific instruments and equipment worth more than 100,000 yuan this year, all of which are included in the scientific instrument sharing and collaboration network, and provide research and innovation services for more small and medium-sized enterprises. At the same time, in order to encourage companies to use the instruments on these shared platforms, this year it will provide a 30% subsidy for the use of testing companies.

The reporter learned from the Hubei Provincial Department of Science and Technology's plan office yesterday that similarly, in order to promote more enterprises to use shared equipment, this year’s science and technology plans that are being filed include the 2014 science and technology support programs in the areas of agriculture, high-tech, social development, and conditional platforms. And so on, for the first time, it was clearly stated that “strictly controlling the purchase costs of equipment and equipment in the project budget, in principle, must not make a purchase budget for large instruments that already have instrument sharing conditions in the province”. According to reports, this move is to "force" enterprises and institutions to use shared equipment, to avoid repeated purchases, saving research funding.

Yang Lixin, head of the large scientific instrument collaboration network in Hubei Province, said in an interview with reporters that as of the end of 2013, there were 2,316 shared instruments in the network, involving 78 units and 344 network access laboratories. The service sector involves various national and local scientific research projects, new product and new technology development, and innovation and research and development of small and medium-sized enterprises. In 2013, the platform provided a total of 6,681 services to 3009 users inside and outside the province, including 1,706 enterprises in the province, 141 government departments, 70 research institutes, 47 colleges, and 28 hospitals. One. The total revenue of the shared instrument service is 120 million yuan.

Yang Lixin said that this year, a remote booking service system will be set up to realize online booking, online settlement, and remote operations to facilitate the use of shared equipment by enterprises and institutions.