Research on Independent Innovation of Scientific Research Instruments

The scientific equipment and equipment industry is a typical national strategic industry. It needs long-term planning and continuous accumulation, and it is continuously updated. This has become a consensus in China. Scientific instrument research and innovation cannot be a work that can be completed by a certain unit in a short time. The difficulty is precisely due to extreme professionalism. Different stages of research and development should be led by different professional units.

Choosing the first leading unit, the best choice is to select the highest level of scientific research and actually be able to do real high-end equipment. Its scientific research capability should be at the top of the international, at least flat or close to the international top level. Because many high-end instrument testing materials or related test data itself is the benchmark for high-end instrument design and database reference.

For example, for the microscopic detection of nanomaterials, if the preparation technology of nanomaterials is not well-understood, designing the instruments solely based on devices and devices is just an empty shelf. Therefore, it is necessary to have standard samples and test data first, as a material standard and a reference database theory and software, which have substantive significance.

The application of high-end instrument test itself is a cutting-edge field. Actually obtaining accurate and realistic standards and databases requires a high level of pre-professional research as a foreshadowing, but it also requires long-term accumulation and even decades of accumulation.

With such accumulation, the lead unit can be replaced by a professional unit that focuses on device development and equipment manufacturing. This is a manifestation of the fact that there is specialization in the surgery industry.

Therefore, first of all, the scientific instrument innovation plan may be more appropriate in terms of 30 to 50 years, not a five-year plan. Secondly, the development of high-end equipment should lead organizations with deep scientific research and high level of research to take the lead, and other units should cooperate.

The reality is that there are many domestic units that don’t have enough food for research funding, instead of starting rationally, and using real high-level research to determine the leading units. In fact, it is not passive to cooperate with the unit in the long term because the manufacture of high-end equipment is a process of “a piece of railway police,” a process of highly specialized collaboration. The previous period is a process of hard cultivation and development. It is the back-supporting units that harvest and benefit. Each stage should be led by a different professional unit and have a logical relationship of priorities.

The allocation of scientific research funds in China has not yet fully returned to rationality. Everyone moves to the top of the list, and some people think that they are omnipotent. They do not see that this work requires a highly specialized scientific division of labor. The funds for the initial period are mostly used for research on basic work. The funds for the latter period are mainly for the manufacture of equipment and devices. This requires a sense of responsibility and fairness, and scientific arrangements for the allocation of funds, rather than fighting for funds by everyone.

Other organizations stick to their own technology because the interests are not willing to share. This is the fundamental reason that has led to the domestic sector's continued sluggishness. In fact, this requires the protection of the system. The benefit of the instrument after research and development should be shared by all professions before it can really open up this industry chain.