The purpose of this visit was to learn from the advanced experiences and management methods of European science parks and service organizations, seek opportunities for technological cooperation and project collaboration, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of our province's manufacturing industry, and promote the construction of a high-level innovative province. From June 6th to June 16th, JAISTC organized a delegation of 24 managers from provincial high-tech parts, incubators, new research institutions, investment firms, and high-tech companies to visit Germany.

1. Visiting Destinations and Contents:

1.1 The first stop of the journey was the Adlershof Science Park in Berlin. Founded in 1991, Adlershof covers an area of 420 hectares and focuses on the development of science, technology, economy, and media. It is considered one of "Germany's most successful high-tech industrial parks," as well as "one of the world's 15 largest industrial parks" and "Europe's most modern technology park."

1.2 The Fraunhofer Association for the Advancement of Applied Research was established in 1949 and is Germany's, as well as Europe's and the world's largest applied science research organization. The Fraunhofer Association has cooperated with China for over 25 years, and its IPK research institute in Berlin focuses on intelligent manufacturing and industrial engineering, excelling in the digital transformation of traditional industries and the designof new factories.

1.3 The learning factory of Festo Group, located in Stuttgart, Germany. Festo is a global leader in the pneumatic and electrical industry, one of the initiators of Germany's Industry 4.0, and a long-established family business. The company's main products are pneumatic valves, valve islands, and related electronic equipment, making it a significant driving force in automation technology.

1.4 Heidelberg Technology Park is one of Germany's most important biotechnology research centers and a leading global center.

1.5 The Industry 4.0 Demonstration Factory at RWTH Aachen University. RWTH Aachen University, founded in 1870, has consistently ranked among the top in German university research rankings for its engineering department and shares the title of "the world's best engineering college" with MIT in the United States.

1.6 The Industry 4.0 Innovation Center at Darmstadt Technical University (Darmstadt TU). Darmstadt TU was founded in 1877 and is one of the world's renowned top German universities in the field of engineering. Its mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and economic informatics have ranked among the top three in Germany for many years, earning it the reputation as a cradle for outstanding engineers.

2. Gains and Achievements:

The objects of this visit are highly targeted, focusing mainly on incubation centers, high-tech industrial parks, and research institutes. There are also demonstration factories that closely integrate practice, research, and continuing education. Examples of these are the Industry 4.0 Demonstration Factory in Aachen University and the Applied Sciences' Industry 4.0 Innovation Center in Darmstadt University. Additionally, there are world-renowned non-profit research institutes supported by public assistance, such as Applied Research's Fraunhofer IPK Institute, as well as the international benchmark enterprise in Industry 4.0, Festo. Their common characteristic is as follows:

2.1 Diverse industries with clear development priorities. The parks have a complete range of industries, reasonable layouts, and rich structures. Adlershof Science Park focuses on six major industrial clusters: photonics and optics, microstructures and materials, IT and media, biotechnology and the environment, and photovoltaics and renewable energy. Heidelberg Technology Park focuses on life sciences while also covering research areas like energy, environment, computer science, and materials.

2.2 Close integration of industry, academia, and research with high efficiency in technology transfer. The parks encourage and support interaction and cooperation between schools, research institutions, and enterprises within the parks. Enterprises fully utilize the research resources of schools, transforming university scientific achievements into productivity and the market. At the same time, universities understand market demands through enterprises, which guides their research directions. This two-way technology transfer effectively promotes the industrialization of research results and facilitates the sharing of research.

2.3 Unified management by professional institutions providing comprehensive services. Most parks have established management organizations that operate the parks uniformly. They invest in and construct the properties, equipment, and facilities required for technology parks and incubators. They provide comprehensive services for park enterprises. For example, Adlershof Science Park is managed by WISTA Management GmbH, which invests in and rents out properties, equipment, and facilities needed for the technology park and incubator, providing full-service support to park enterprises. Heidelberg Technology Park is jointly established and managed by the city of Heidelberg and the Rhine-Neckar Chamber of Commerce, with a non-profit focus, providing comprehensive and specialized services for science-oriented companies.

2.4 Well-developed infrastructure and supporting facilities, creating a favorable environment for innovation. Each park focuses on strengthening layout planning and coordinating construction with surrounding cities, communities, and towns to form a harmonious development pattern. Therefore, the parks have good software and hardware facilities, convenient transportation, and complete living facilities and educational facilities, becoming integrated and comprehensive parks. These supportive services help the parks rely on their resource advantages, attract more high-quality enterprises, efficiently gather talents, markets, capital, technologies, and other production factors, optimize industrial layout, promote the intensive and scaled development of industries.

3. Inspiration for the Construction of Science and Technology Parks in Our Province:

3.1 Strengthen policy support for incubators and science and technology parks. Plan and coordinate the construction and development of science and technology enterprise incubators and other high-tech parks across the province, strengthen macro guidance and overall coordination. Research and implement detailed policy measures to further promote the construction and development of science and technology enterprise incubators in our province, implement a reasonable policy combination from aspects such as land use, investment, tax benefits, platform construction, and personnel training, form a policy package, achieve precise policy implementation, promote the construction and development of parks, accelerate the incubation of enterprises, rapidly release technological achievements, transform them into productivity, and promote the high-quality development of our province's high-tech industry.

3.2 Vigorously develop innovation and entrepreneurship clusters. Learn from the experiences of industrial parks in Germany and other countries, strengthen scientific planning, layout, and the scientific allocation of related resources, guide and support the construction and development of innovation and entrepreneurship clusters with relatively concentrated resources, relatively complete infrastructure, and relatively complete production and supporting service systems in various regions. Use various means and innovative work methods to efficiently gather talents, markets, capital, technologies, and other production factors, encourage and support universities and research institutions to settle in innovation and entrepreneurship clusters, enhance interaction and connection between universities and enterprises, create a situation of close integration of industry, academia, research, and application, create a new environment for research and innovation development, and promote harmonious progress and sustainable development in industrial development, urban construction, land utilization, and ecological conservation.

3.3 To improve the quality and efficiency of our High-Tech parks, we will draw from foreign park development experiences. A specialized operating company will be established to manage the park, providing specialized and integrated resource services in specific fields to leverage the expertise of park operators and teams. We will relax management requirements for physical space while setting strict criteria for incubation conditions to enhance core functions, service levels, and incubation performance. Encouraging large enterprises, research institutions, universities, and social organizations to participate in park development will rapidly elevate its capabilities. Embracing internet thinking and information technology will boost technology business incubators' openness and development, fostering new entrepreneurship incubation service models for harmonious integration across the industry and value chain.

3.4 Focus on Cultivating High-Quality Talent. Learning from countries like Germany, our High-Tech parks should collaborate with high-quality professional service institutes to establish vocational education and training systems for innovation and entrepreneurship services. By nurturing talents suitable for incubation and enhancing the competence of entrepreneurship and incubation service personnel, we aim to foster high-quality entrepreneurial leaders and talents. This will drive our province's high-quality development to the forefront of the nation.

Note: The study activity, meticulously designed and organized by JAISTC, benefitted from the considerate services of local personnel and close cooperation among group members. The investigation yielded rich content and well-organized arrangements, resulting in a successful outcome.