Supportive Policies for Science and Technology Innovation
Updated: 2014-05-17 11:03
• The Kunming High-Tech Development Zone will allocate no less than 40 percent of total science and technology expenditure budget as project supportive funds each year. It will also give funding to projects getting national or provincial support in the way of free financing and loans with discounted interest.
• From 2012 on, the Kunming High-Tech Development Zone spares 15 million yuan as "special funds for technological innovation of small and medium enterprises" each year from the zone’s science and technology expenditure budget to support their development and enhance innovation ability.
• The Kunming High-Tech Development Zone has a special fund for academician and expert workstations, each 800,000 yuan per year, for three consecutive years, to attract global and domestic academicians and chief scientists in a particular field to build workstations in the zone. The academicians and experts will be provided with an apartment, one-time settling-in allowance of 200,000 yuan, necessary working and living facilities, and logistics service during their work in Yunnan.
• High level R&D entities and technology management departments (namely corporate technology centers, engineering centers and key laboratories) will be subsidized with 1 million yuan as a one-time science and technology innovation support.
• The Kunming High-Tech Development Zone gives a subsidy of 800,000 yuan and 500,000 yuan to corporations who build science and technology cooperation bases at national and provincial levels, respectively.
• Corporations with domestic certificated intellectual property rights will be rewarded with 5,000 yuan for each right; with Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan certificated intellectual property rights, 8,000 yuan for each; with US/Japan/EU member certificated intellectual property rights, 30,000 yuan for each; with other countries’ certificated intellectual property rights, 20,000 yuan for each.
• Corporations winning the title of “China Famous Brand” and “Yunnan Famous Brand” will be rewarded with 200,000 yuan and 100,000 yuan, respectively.