In this year’s government work report, the description “technological innovation” appears seven times in a row. This is also the ninth consecutive year since 2015 that the concept of “technological innovation” has been mentioned in the national “Two Sessions” government work reports. The government work report pointed out that science and technology policies should focus on self-reliance and self-reliance, improve the new national system, give full play to the organizational role of the government in key and core technology research, and highlight the dominant position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation.
As an important part of the national economy, enterprises' scientific and technological innovation capabilities have become one of their core competitiveness, and their investment in R&D funds has continued to increase. This year’s government work report pointed out that in the past five years, the intensity of R&D investment in the whole society has increased from 2.1% to more than 2.5%.
Pay attention to R&D management and make enterprise innovation "one step faster"
In terms of R&D investment, Huawei is the most representative company. Huawei's financial report released in 2021 shows that both the amount of R&D expenses and the R&D expense rate in 2021 are at the highest level in the past decade. The "EU 2021 Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard" shows that Huawei's R&D investment ranks second in the world, reaching approximately RMB 142.7 billion. Yuan, and in the ten years from 2012 to 2021, Huawei's total R&D investment was approximately RMB 845.6 billion.
When Huawei invests in R&D, in addition to tackling core technologies, it also attaches great importance to R&D management. After Huawei’s first large-scale recruitment in the 1990s, the chaotic state of R&D management within the company dragged down R&D efficiency. For this reason, Huawei We began to promote the reform of R&D management. The establishment and use of the management system helped engineers conduct research and development in an orderly manner, ensured the precipitation of R&D data, and improved the efficiency of team collaboration.
Scientific R&D management processes can ensure the efficiency of engineers' technology development. Improved technology R&D efficiency can ensure the improvement of product delivery efficiency, and revenue and profits will increase accordingly. Enterprises' investment in R&D funds will naturally increase, and a virtuous cycle will gradually begin. This kind of The effect of being one step ahead of the market and customers is also the main pursuit of enterprises currently using R&D management software.
Self-reliance, self-reliance and innovation in science and technology must be used “well”
In the statement on scientific and technological innovation in this government work report, "science and technology self-reliance and self-reliance" appears for the second time in the government work report after 2021. Expert analysts believe that this reflects that our country is currently facing a relatively fierce international competitive environment, and it also means that we have relatively urgent development needs and potential in high-tech and other industrial fields.
In recent years, enterprises have continued to learn a lot of experience from leading international industry companies and avoid many detours. Advanced tools will improve efficiency, but technological self-reliance and self-reliance require making technological innovations more usable and safer without slowing down development speed.
Take project management software in enterprise R&D management as an example. Jira is an overseas company product. Because of its early release, convenience, and ease of use, it has become the R&D management tool of choice for many domestic and foreign companies to improve R&D efficiency.
(Comparison of UniPro and Jira product functions)
There are also a number of domestic software companies that have independently developed R&D management software through user research and market analysis, forming localized alternatives. However, the replacement of tool software is not a simple operation. Users need to consider whether the replaced software can support daily work processes, and more importantly, whether the data and processes of the old tools can be seamlessly connected. This is also a problem for domestic users. A topic for enterprises is how to enable users to vote with their "feet". Take UniPro, one of the mainstream project management software in China, as an example. In the initial stage of the product, it discovered that the pain points of domestic users in the research and development process were not just mandatory replacements. Instead, it puts customer needs in front and integrates them into product functions. For example, for domestic users who are already using Jira, UniPro supports such enterprise customers to quickly migrate existing data. If the Jira contract used by the enterprise has expired, Just use UnPro for one-click migration to achieve seamless user switching from Jira to UniPro.
(UniPro supports one-click migration)
Self-reliance and self-reliance in science and technology is not a simple substitution of localized products, but rather allows corporate customers to use better domestically produced “self-reliant and self-reliant” products to help companies improve the efficiency of innovation. In 2023, our country's economy will face greater opportunities and challenges. As mentioned in the government report, the government will play an organizational role in tackling key core technologies, and enterprises, as the main body of scientific and technological innovation, must also improve the efficiency of scientific and technological innovation, with the help of The scientific and technological innovation achievements of the whole society enable enterprises to develop quickly and well.