2008 International Technology Transfer Forum, Binhai Declaration
 2008 International Technology Transfer Forum (Tianjin, China), jointly sponsored by the Torch High Technology Industry Development Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People¡¯s Republic of China, Administrative Commission of Tianjin Binhai New Area and Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Commission, has convened ceremoniously in Tianjin Binhai New Area. With the theme of ¡°Technology Transfer: Globalization and Innovation¡±, the Forum has served as a platform facilitating exchanges and cooperation and provided an opportunity for development, enabling the participants to have extensive and in-depth discussions that prove to be successful in building consensus among them.

1. As an important aspect of the self-innovation strategy of China, technology transfer is to the enterprise a key link in its endeavor to innovate and sharpen its competitive edge, and constitutes a major means of translating scientific and technological achievements into productive forces. Building a new technology transfer system and exploring for an operational mechanism that facilitates technology transfer and proliferation is a pressing strategic task in the drive of building an innovation-oriented country. And the building of such a new technology transfer system ¨C one that would meet the demands for enterprise innovation, with universities and scientific research institutions as the base and technology transfer service providers as the link, thus integrating production and scientific research ¨C is a task of top priority in the development of technology transfer.
2. A sound pro-innovation climate and an effective law and policy system would help promote the development of technology transfer. The implementation of the national technology transfer promotion action plan has brought about a better technology transfer environment, a more complete national and regional technology transfer system, and more active knowledge flow and technology transfer between production and research, and between sectors, fields of disciplines, regions or countries. In the face of the golden opportunity for technology transfer development, we should make the most of it by adopting effective and workable measures conducive to greater development of technology transfer.

3. It¡¯s always imperative to further emancipate our mind. And innovation is a never-ending challenge. Having the whole world in view, we should learn and introduce the advanced experiences and concepts of other countries, make use of all resources available, foster our unique features, and adopt new thinking, new systems and new mechanisms conducive to our greater comprehensive strength, sharper innovative edge, better services and greater competitiveness. The forum has called on the government authorities, regional technology leagues and the enterprises and research institutions concerned to strengthen contact and exchanges between them and join hands in creating a new situation for technology transfer.
4. An experimental area for the country¡¯s comprehensive reform drive, the Binhai New Area promises better opportunities for innovation initiatives and technology transfer, for a number of prestigious domestic and international enterprises, research institutions and service providers have come to Binhai New Area for business and service. The convening of the forum will definitely help propel the development of technology transfer in the area and in Tianjin as well.

It is the hope of all the participants that this international technology transfer forum will be held regularly in the years to come, to ensure the sustained development of technology transfer.

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