ABSTRACT
Early in 1987, one and half years after the implementation of the ‘Decision’, reform policy took a bold step by urging industrial R&D institutes to enter into enterprises. Signed by the State Council, the document, ‘Stipulations of the State Council for Furthering the Reform of the S&T Management System’, presented the rationale for this move:
[though the reform has achieved preliminary success over the past year and more…] one should have been conscious that the disconnection between S&T and production has not yet been fundamentally improved. The pattern of the organizational structure of the S&T system is basically untouched, the system remains closed (to the outside); the important R&D institutes are still affiliated to administrative organs rather than being bound up with the national economy; there are more qualified scientists and technicians than required in big research institutes belonging to central ministries and institutes of higher education, while there is a serious lack of S&T manpower in light industry, commercial enterprises and rural areas; the policy measures intended to intensify the links between research institutes and enterprises have been inefficient, so that a considerable number of research institutes are undertaking a kind of ‘self-accomplishment’ [of the commercialization of their technological strengths] without devoting much effort to making outside connections.
