Member of the shanghai city council, deputy director general of the central district construction office, huang yong-ryong, presenter
In march 2025, shanghai introduced the shanghai city measures for innovative development of services, which provide for the annual establishment of a certain size of vouchers, model coupons, language vouchers, and support for the preferential use of resources such as creative enterprises, innovative business platforms, professional services, etc。
In addition to consumer vouchers, coupons, model coupons and coupons quickly landed in shanghai. The town of pakdong zhangjiang provides a maximum of 100 per cent credit, model coupons, language coupons and a subsidy of $1 million each; and the town of xu zhibei yang provides subsidies of up to $1 million credit coupons, model coupons and language coupons at the municipal level。
During the shanghai ii conference, the shanghai city councillor and deputy director-general of the central district construction office of huangura stated that the “three coupons” support policy was based on the dual attraction of “policy orientation + precision services” and that it was effective in prying creative enterprises to accelerate their integration into shanghai. What else can i do to further improve the science and technology services? He suggested that the shanghai study introduce an “intellectual rights voucher” to create a “four-person” science and technology services policy system。
Chen has pointed out that the cost of intellectual property rights (ipr) for smes in shanghai is high, that the cost of basic services, such as patent applications, trademark registration, higher thresholds for high-end services, such as intellectual property rights protection, transactions and operations, and that smes are generally faced with the dilemma of “no means to protect but no means to use”, which constrains the transformation and protection of innovation. On the other hand, the current shanghai ipr enabling policy application process is cumbersome, with long approval cycles and limited coverage, which makes it difficult to meet the needs of diversification and timeliness of enterprises, and inadequate policy inclusiveness。
So how does the “intellectual property voucher” system work? Chen shared his ideas with journalists。
In terms of the scale of the funds, the initial portfolio of $300 million-$500 million in intellectual property vouchers was created to cover the entire chain of intellectual property rights, including patent, trademark, copyright application registration, brokering services such as transactions, rights litigation, and intellectual property transaction fees. The principle of “early completion” is used to target smes and start-ups registered in shanghai. A percentage of the cost of purchasing compliance intellectual property services is subsidized and a ceiling on individual annual subsidies is set。
In the light of the different stages of enterprise development and intellectual property needs, chen has pointed to the need to design a structured subsidy programme. For example, the focus on basic services subsidies for start-up enterprises and customisation subsidies for overseas patent layouts for offshore enterprises. There is also a need for a unified service platform. Building an integrated intellectual property voucher line management platform, based on the shanghai public service platform for intellectual property rights, which allows for the processing of voucher applications, contract filings, etc., and streamlines applications and compresses the approval cycle。
In the end, there is a need to improve municipal synergy mechanisms. It is clear that the municipal finances bear the main subsidy funds, and that the regions are accompanied by subsidies corresponding to the characteristics of the regional industry, which form an integrated and coordinated working pattern. Establish a process-wide monitoring mechanism for the use of funds to ensure that funds are earmarked. Regular assessments of the effectiveness of policy implementation are conducted to optimize the criteria for subsidies, the scope of support and the operational mechanisms based on the dynamic assessment。
