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SOEs have low innovation capacity: official
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-11-18 09:33
China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have very low independent innovation
capacity, with only a small number of them possessing core competence, a
government official said Thursday.
The concept of independent innovation at SOEs is still feeble, with the
system of motivation needing improvement, said Ji Xiaonan, chairman of the
Council of Large Enterprises of the State-owned Assets Supervision and
Administration Commission, at the International Forum on Productivity
Development in China.
"There is a great gap between Chinese SOEs' input in research and technology
and enterprises in developed countries," he said.
According to him, China's large SOEs spent 5.67 billion yuan (700 million US
dollars) in introducing technology, but only spent360 million yuan in absorbing
technology in 2003.
The general technical level of SOEs is relatively low and the efficiency of
technological innovation needs to be enhanced, he said.
Ji called for efforts to strengthen SOEs' important status in research and
raise their consciousness and motivation of independent innovation, saying the
government should create some index, such as the proportion of research funding
to sales revenueand the quantity of patents every year, into SOE leaders'
appraisal system to drive independent innovation.
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