Okobaike identified the right path to innovation from Director Zhang Rui's report.
After listening to a report by Zhang Rui, Director of the Henan Provincial Department of Science and Technology, on "Comprehensively Deepening Science and Technology System Reform to Promote the Integrated Development of Scientific and Technological Innovation and Industrial Innovation," Okobike, a technology-based enterprise deeply engaged in the bio-agriculture sector, not only accurately grasped the policy direction and development path, but also firmly believed in fully supporting the green transformation of agriculture with reform as its wings and integration as its path.
I. Reform Policies "Untie the Constraints and Empower" Enterprise Innovation, Injecting a Strong Shot of Development
Director Zhang Rui clearly stated that science and technology system reform must unleash innovation momentum by improving funding management mechanisms and expanding the reform of empowering achievements. This statement deeply reminds us that the unleashing of enterprise innovation vitality is inseparable from the nourishment of institutional guarantees: the "sunshine and rain" of life.
As a national high-tech enterprise, Okobio has benefited significantly from Henan's comprehensive reforms for innovation and development. Leveraging the Henan Provincial Research Center for Feed Microbial Preparation Engineering and the Henan Research Center for Feed Microbial Development Engineering Technology, we have partnered with universities such as China Agricultural University, Henan Agricultural University, East China Normal University, Henan University of Science and Technology, and Luoyang Institute of Technology to establish an industry-university-research partnership. We have successfully developed five patents for functional probiotics, directly driving over 50% growth in our company's output value. The report's inclusion of "giving scientists greater decision-making power over technical routes and funding" and "expanding the pilot reform program for empowering scientific and technological achievements" further clearly points the way forward for optimizing R&D management, providing crucial policy confidence for us to increase investment in basic research and pursue original technological breakthroughs.
II. "Five-Chain Coupling" Paves the Way for Industrial Integration and Addresses Transformation Pains
Director Zhang Rui's proposal to "promote the coupling of the 'five chains': industrial chain, innovation chain, supply chain, value chain, and institutional chain" accurately identifies the key to integrating scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation and provides a core methodology for addressing development pain points.
For a long time, OkoBaiK has focused on core industry challenges such as feed antibiotic replacement, animal gastrointestinal health, and cost reduction and efficiency improvement in livestock farming. Using microbial enzyme-co-fermented feed technology, OkoBaiK transforms common raw materials into highly active biofeed, helping livestock companies reduce costs by over 20%. However, in the process of scaling these achievements, the gap between laboratory technology and industrial production persists. The report's strategy of "strengthening the leading role of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation and accelerating the development of enterprise-led innovation consortia" has identified a path forward. In the future, we will collaborate with university research teams and upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry chain to form innovation consortia, establishing a continuous innovation cycle from basic research to pilot-scale scale-up to mass production and application. This will help transform the company's 50 existing national patents into tangible industrial competitiveness.
III. Talent Support: Laying a Strong Foundation for Long-Term Development and Consolidating the Foundation for Growth
Director Zhang Rui's emphasis on "integratedly promoting the development of education, science and technology, and talent, and strengthening the development of a world-class talent pool" aligns closely with OkoBaiK's development philosophy of "talent-driven enterprise development" and further points the way forward for optimizing and upgrading our talent pool.
Previously, through a model of "Science and Technology Special Envoys stationed in enterprises + targeted employee training at universities," we have cultivated dozens of interdisciplinary talents with both technical proficiency and industrial acumen. However, there is still room for improvement in attracting and cultivating high-end R&D talent. In line with the report's guidance on "supporting outstanding scientific and technological talent to take on key responsibilities," we will focus on two fronts: first, improving internal incentive mechanisms to ensure that core technical personnel enjoy greater benefits from their achievements and stimulate their enthusiasm for innovation; second, exploring the establishment of a "Joint Bio-Agriculture R&D Base" with universities. This will not only attract top scientific research talent to tackle core technologies, but also cultivate a reserve of technical talent for enterprises, making talent the core driving force behind the green transformation of bio-agriculture.
Science and technology system reform is a key step in innovative development, and the integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation is the only way to achieve high-quality development. Guided by the spirit of this report, Okobaike will actively embrace reform, deepen integrated innovation, and leverage more scientific and technological achievements in the field of bio-agriculture to empower agricultural modernization, contributing to Henan's efforts to build a national innovation hub and a strong agricultural province.
