Object  Record

Chapter I General Provisions

Chapter II  Support for the Construction of Industry-University-Research Demonstration Bases in Macao Universities Construction

Chapter III  Funding for Innovation Platforms

Chapter IV  Funding for Incubation Carriers

Chapter V  Funding for Incubation Carriers

Chapter VI  Appendices

Chapter VI  Support for Industry-University Research Model Bases of Macao Universities nbsp;By-laws

Chapter I

General Provisions

Article I

Article 1

Purpose of Formulation

In order to effectively implement the "Several Measures to Promote the Development of Science and Technology Innovation in Hengqin, Guangdong and Macao Deep Cooperation Zone", to accelerate the introduction and cultivation of scientific and technological innovation platforms, to build a center of technological innovation and transformation, and to promote the development of Hengqin, Guangdong and Macao Deep Cooperation Zone (hereinafter referred to as the Zone) as a Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area an important fulcrum of the international science and technology innovation center, and hereby formulate these measures.

Article 2

Definitions

For the purpose of applying the provisions of these Measures, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

(a) Macao tertiary education institutions refer to the tertiary education institutions approved to be established in accordance with the Regulations on Higher Education of the Macao Special Administrative Region under Administrative Regulation 18/2018, including the University of Macao, the Macao University of Science and Technology, the Macao Polytechnic University, the Macao University of Tourism, the City University of Macao, the University of St. Joseph, the Macao Kiang Wu Nursing College, the Macao Management Institute, the Central and Western Innovation Institute (b) Fortune Global 500, which refers to the enterprises or their holding subsidiaries that were listed in the Fortune Global 500 list in the previous year;

(c) Central enterprises, which refers to the enterprises that were included in the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC)'s supervisory list in the previous year; and (d) Central enterprises, which refers to the enterprises that were included in the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC)'s supervisory list in the previous year. (c) Central enterprises, meaning enterprises or their controlling subsidiaries that were included in the supervision of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council in the previous year;

(d) Listed enterprises, meaning enterprises that are listed on the domestic stock exchanges (the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, and the Beijing Stock Exchange) as well as on the overseas mainstream stock exchanges (the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, etc.);

(e) technology contract seller, refers to the trustee of the technology development, service, consulting contracts, or technology transfer contracts, or technology licensing contracts licensee;

(vi) Controlling, means that its capital contribution accounts for more than fifty percent of the total capital of a limited liability company, or its shareholding accounts for more than fifty percent of the total share capital of a joint stock limited company;

(vii) Substantial operation, in accordance with the Executive No. 2/2023 (vii) Substantial operation, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Commission's normative document "Rules for the Recognition of Substantial Operation of Enterprises in the Hengqin-Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone. Interim Measures for the Administration of Venture Capital Enterprises (Decree No. 39 of the National Development and Reform Commission and other 10 departments) or Interim Measures for the Supervision and Administration of Private Equity Funds (Decree No. 105 of the Securities and Futures Commission), and complete the filing of the Venture Capital Funds and Private Equity Funds and standardize their operation in accordance with the above provisions;

(ix) Macao-funded enterprise means that the investor is a resident of Macao, or a legal entity established in Macao according to the law and engaging in the operation of the enterprise for not less than 2 years, with a proportion of shares The total shareholding shall not be less than twenty-five percent. The shareholding modes of Macao residents and Macao legal persons include direct shareholding and indirect shareholding, but do not include shareholding in lieu of shareholding;

(j) Macao affiliates refer to those enterprises which are established according to the law in Macao, which have paid taxes (including but not limited to supplemental income tax and business tax) or are exempted from taxes according to the law, and which are directly held by the enterprises in the Zone (excluding shareholding in lieu of shareholding). percent or more of the shares or directly holds (excluding nominee holding) more than 50 percent of the shares of the cooperation zone enterprise, and engages in the same or similar business with the cooperation zone enterprise;

(xi) Public service venues, refers to the activity venues provided by the incubator for sharing by the enterprises under incubation, including the public dining room and the reception room, Meeting rooms, exhibition rooms, activity rooms, technical testing rooms and other ancillary service venues;

(xii) "Above" includes this number.

Chapter II

Supporting the Construction of Macao Universities' Industry-University-Research Demonstration Bases

Article 3

Support for Incubation Projects

For projects recommended by Macao universities and incubated in their Industry-University-Research Demonstration Bases, a one-off subsidy of RMB 200,000 yuan will be granted, and each Macao university can recommend no more than ten projects per year.

Article 4

Conditions for applying for funding of incubation projects

The application for funding of incubation projects shall meet the following conditions:

(1) The application for incubation project funding is unified by the Industry-University-Research Demonstration Base of Macao Universities and the funding will be transferred to the corresponding projects;

(2) The projects recommended by Macao Universities must be originated from Macao Universities or have been ranked on the U.S. World University Rankings, QUALITY World University Rankings, QUALITY World University Rankings, and QUALITY World University Rankings in the past three years. News World University Rankings, QS World University Rankings, and Times Global Top Universities Rankings for the past three years; the project leaders must be full-time faculty members of the respective universities;

(c) Macao universities shall evaluate the innovation and industrialization prospect of their recommended projects, and the relevant evaluation report shall be stamped with the official seal of the university. The report shall be stamped with the official seal of the university, and projects focusing on basic research shall not be recommended.

Article 5

Reward for paid-in capital of incubatees

For startups incubated by Macao higher education institutions, 20 percent of their paid-in capital can be rewarded in monetary terms. The one-time maximum reward of 200,000 RMB will be given to 20% of the paid-in capital of the enterprise, and each enterprise can only apply for it once.

Article 6

Conditions for applying for the incentive of paid-in capital for incubatees

The application for the incentive of paid-in capital for incubatees shall meet the following conditions. (1) The applicant is an enterprise whose place of registration, tax administration and statistical relations are in the Zone, has independent legal personality and a standardized financial management system, and operates substantially in the Zone;

(2) When applying for the incentive, the applicant is established as an incubatee and has the right to apply for the incentive; (3) The applicant has the right to apply for the incentive. (b) At the time of applying for the award, the applicant must have been established for not more than forty-eight months;

(c) At the time of applying for the award, the applicant must have passed the evaluation of science and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and possess a valid registration number for the SMEs in the science and technology-based SME database;

(d) At the time of applying for the award, the shareholding of the applicant organization must not be less than three percent.

Article 7

Support for Joint Laboratory Construction

If the enterprises in the Cooperation Zone establish joint laboratories with the demonstration bases of Macao universities, the enterprises' actual investment will be recognized according to the actual investment of the enterprises.

For enterprises in the Zone to jointly build joint laboratories with demonstration bases of Macao universities for industry-academia-research, a maximum subsidy of two million yuan will be given to the joint laboratories according to the 30% of the actual capital invested by enterprises.

Article 8

Conditions for Application of Joint Laboratory Construction Funding

The application of Joint Laboratory Construction Funding shall comply with the following conditions:

The application of Joint Laboratory Construction Funding shall comply with the following conditions.

(1) The applicant is an industry-academia-research demonstration base set up by a Macao university in the Zone;

(2) The applicant has signed a formal cooperation agreement with an enterprise in the Zone for the construction of a joint laboratory;

(c) The joint laboratory should be centered on technology research and development, achievement transfer and transformation, and talent cultivation, and have a stable and clear long-term cooperation mechanism, rather than targeting specific one-time project cooperation;

(d) The joint laboratory has a fixed site, R&D personnel, and the necessary resources in the zone. (d) The joint laboratory has a fixed site, R&D personnel and necessary instruments and equipment in the cooperative zone;

(e) The co-founding unit (enterprises in the cooperative zone) has actually invested funds in the joint laboratory.

Article 9

Reward for Transformation of Achievements

For the technology contracts in which the demonstration base for industry-academia-research set up by Macao's universities in the Zone acts as the seller, the amount of the actual income of the contract may be paid as a bonus.

The actual amount of income from the contract is determined by the amount agreed in the technology contract, the corresponding tax invoice amount and the bank receipt, taking the smallest amount to be determined; the time of obtaining the income is based on the date shown in the bank transfer certificate.

Income derived from enterprises with equity affiliation is not included in this award.

Chapter III

Innovation Platform Funding

Article X

Innovation Platform Construction Funding

Support for major innovation platforms built by domestic and foreign innovation entities in the Cooperation Zone in collaboration with Macao universities, research institutes and technology enterprises, etc., which have a supportive effect on industrial development. Upon evaluation, a maximum funding of 100 million RMB can be granted to a single platform.

For the innovation platforms that have been assessed and approved, the Economic Development Board of the Zone will sign a cooperation agreement with the applicant, agreeing on the annual assessment targets for the platform construction period. After the expiration of the annual assessment period, the Cooperation Zone Economic Development Bureau of the innovation platform of the previous year, the completion of the indicators for the assessment, the assessment passed the allocation of annual funding.

The maximum funding period for a single platform is five consecutive years; the annual funding is disbursed in accordance with 30% of the total investment in platform construction made by the platform's operating unit with its own funds (i.e., excluding non-reimbursable government funding at all levels) in that year.

The total investment in the construction includes site rental, site decoration, purchase of instruments and equipment (including software), and human resources, etc., subject to the data in the special audit report issued by the third-party auditing organization.

Article 11

Application conditions for innovation platform construction funding

Innovation platforms shall meet the following positioning, and the applicant unit shall choose one of them Application:

(a) Industrial technology research and development platform: It refers to a platform that is oriented to the development needs of key industries in the Zone, such as integrated circuits, electronic components, new materials, new energy, big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, biomedicine, etc., and carries out the research and development of common and key industrial technologies, demonstration of the application of new technologies, transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, standardization, talent training and other activities. (b) Science and technology public service platform: for small and medium-sized enterprises common technical problems and industrial sustainable development needs, to provide testing, testing, pilot incubation, R & D design, resource sharing, financial services, talent attraction, science and technology consulting and other specialized services to reduce the cost of enterprise innovation and improve the efficiency of the use of scientific and technological resources. The company also provides specialized services such as testing, incubation, R&D and design, resource sharing, financial services, talent recruitment, intelligence gathering, science and technology consulting, etc. to reduce the cost of innovation for enterprises and enhance the efficiency of science and technology resources.

The application for innovation platform construction funding should meet the following conditions:

(a) The unit applying for the innovation platform must meet one of the following conditions:

1. left;"> 1. Fortune 500 enterprises, central enterprises, listed enterprises, unicorn enterprises recognized by the Cooperation Zone, and enterprises that have won the Hengqin International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition;

2. Universities ranked in the top 300 in the U.S. News World University Rankings, QS World University Rankings, Times Top Universities in the World Rankings;

3. State-level scientific research institutes, and domestic and foreign research institutes ranked in the top 200 in the Nature Index in the past three years.

(2) The applicant or co-constructor must include at least one Macao innovation entity, including Macao's universities, research institutes, and science and technology enterprises certified by the Macao SAR Government (Potential Science and Technology Enterprises, Growing Science and Technology Enterprises, and Key Science and Technology Enterprises);

(c) The operating unit of the innovation platform shall be an entity with independent legal personality registered in the Cooperation Zone; if the operating unit has not yet been established at the application stage, the applicant shall undertake to complete the registration of the operating unit of the platform within three months after the completion of the public announcement of the project;

(d) The innovation platform must be of public service nature;

(e) The innovation platform shall be a public service organization. The innovation platform must be of a public service nature, providing public services to enterprises or organizations in related industries;

(e) The total investment in the platform construction shall not be less than 20 million yuan.

Article 12

Procedures for Establishing Projects of Innovation Platform Construction

Procedures for Establishing Projects of Innovation Platform Construction are as follows:

(a) Application: The applicant submits the platform construction program and other materials to the Economic Development Bureau of the Cooperation Zone. The content of the platform construction plan shall include the platform's functional positioning, construction objectives, construction content, construction period, organizational structure, operation team, investment estimation and fund-raising plan, expected economic and social benefits, and sub-annual assessment indicators. The sub-annual assessment indicators shall be quantifiable and assessable, and the content shall be real and credible, and shall not be exaggerated. Once the project is established, the assessment indicators in the construction program will be used as part of the cooperation agreement;

(B) Preliminary examination: The Economic Development Bureau of the Cooperation Zone will conduct the preliminary examination of the application materials;

(C) Evaluation and validation: The Economic Development Bureau of the Cooperation Zone will organize experts or commission a third-party professional organization. Organize experts or commission a third-party professional organizations, a comprehensive use of written reviews, on-site defense, site visits and other ways to assess the demonstration. If the evaluation passes, the Economic Development Bureau of the Zone will issue a "Notice of Project Establishment" to the applicant;

(4) Signing of Cooperation Agreement: For the innovation platform projects approved by the Zone, the Economic Development Bureau of the Zone and the applicant will sign a cooperation agreement, agreeing on the sub-annual assessment indicators.

Article 13

Innovation Platform Recognition Reward

The innovation platforms are recognized and rewarded for the first time to obtain the approval or recognition of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Ministry of Information Technology and other ministries and commissions approved or recognized national key laboratories, national technology innovation centers, national engineering research centers, national industrial innovation centers, national manufacturing innovation centers, national clinical medical research centers and other scientific and technological innovation platforms, can be given a one-time reward of 30 million yuan. A one-time reward of RMB 10 million yuan may be given to the above-mentioned science and technology innovation platforms of the same type recognized by Guangdong Province for the first time after the implementation of these Measures. Within the validity of these measures, the same level of accreditation is only rewarded once; if more than one reward level is reached, the highest level will be rewarded by making up the difference.

A one-time reward of RMB 3 million will be given to the new R&D institutions and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao joint laboratories recognized by Guangdong Province for the first time after the implementation of these measures. The same level of accreditation will only be rewarded once within the validity period of these measures.

For the first time after the implementation of these measures to obtain the national, Guangdong Province, recognized by the enterprise technology centers or engineering technology research centers can be given a one-time award of 5 million yuan, 500,000 yuan. In the validity of this approach to the same level of accreditation is only rewarded once; to achieve more than one reward level, in order to make up the difference in the way of the highest level of reward.

Chapter IV

Funding for Incubation Carriers

Article 14

Article 14

Specialized Incubator Construction Funding

Supporting domestic and foreign innovation entities to jointly build specialized incubators with Macao's universities, scientific research institutes, technology enterprises, etc., focusing on industry segments. For the first time to obtain the cooperation zone professional incubator recognized, according to the recognition of the three years prior to the date of the year (the establishment of less than three years, according to the actual operating years) operating units with their own funds (that is, not including the government's non-reimbursable subsidies type of financial funds) to carry out the construction of the incubator of the total investment of 50% to be funded, the maximum amount of funding for a single incubator of 10 million yuan.

The total investment in construction includes site rental fees, site decoration fees, purchase of instruments and equipment (including software), human resources, etc., based on the data in the special audit report issued by the third-party auditor.

Article 15

Recognition of Professional Incubator

The application for recognition of professional incubator shall meet the following conditions:

(a) The incubator must include at least one Macao innovation entity, including Macao's universities, scientific research institutes, and technology enterprises certified by the Macao SAR Government (Potential Technology Enterprises, Growing Technology Enterprises and Key Technology Enterprises);

(b) The incubator should be recognized as a professional incubator by the Macao SAR Government. left;"> (b) The incubator operator shall be an independent legal entity registered in the Zone, with a sound operation and management system and incubation service mechanism;

(c) The direction of incubation industry is clear, and belongs to the key industrial areas of the Zone;

(d) The incubator shall be operated by an independent legal entity registered in the Zone. align: left;"> (d) have been registered in the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Enterprise Incubation and Incubation Service Platform (Guangdong Incubation Online Incubation Platform) and have reported relevant statistics for at least one year;

(e) the incubator site is centralized, and the area of the incubation site that can be disposed of on its own is not less than 3,000 square meters. (In case of leased space, it shall ensure that the remaining lease term is not less than five years from the date of application), and not less than 75% of the space (including public service space) is used by the incubatees;

(6) through self-built, joint-built, cooperative and other means, build open public service platforms in the field of specialized technology to provide R&D, design, inspection, testing, and other services for the incubatees. (f) To build an open public service platform in the field of specialized technology through self-built and joint-built or cooperation, and to provide the incubatees with professional and technical services such as research and development, design, inspection, testing, pilot test, etc.

(g) To set up an angel or venture capital fund, or to carry out early-stage project investment with its own funds. No less than ten percent of the incubatees have received investment and financing;

(h) The main body of the incubator operation has a professional service team, and the full-time incubation service personnel (referring to the full-time incubator staff with experience in entrepreneurship, investment and financing, and business management, or after entrepreneurial service-related training) account for more than sixty percent of the total number of the organization. More than 60% of the total number of incubators, with no less than six full-time incubation service staff, and at least one entrepreneurial mentor (referring to entrepreneurs, investment experts, and management consultants who have received training from science and technology departments, industry associations, or have been appointed by the incubator, and who are capable of providing professional and practical counseling services to start-up enterprises and entrepreneurs);

(ix) The incubator has no less than one incubatee with experience in entrepreneurship, investment and financing, or who have received training in entrepreneurship services. (ix) The incubator has no less than ten incubatees, and the enterprises engaged in R&D and production in the incubation industry account for no less than seventy-five percent of the total number of incubatees, and the cumulative number of graduated enterprises transformed by the incubator and settled in the Cooperation Zone is no less than five; and the ratio of enterprises that have applied for patents to the total number of incubatees in the incubator is no less than thirty-five percent, or the proportion of enterprises that own valid intellectual property rights is no less than ten percent.

The above incubatees refer to enterprises meeting the following conditions:

(a) mainly engaged in the research and development, production and service of new technologies and products, and shall meet the relevant requirements for science and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises;

(b) The enterprise's residence, business premises and main R&D and office premises shall be located within the incubator premises, and the enterprise's establishment time at the time of admission shall be no more than twenty-four months;

(c) The incubation time limit shall be no more than forty-eight months in principle. Technology field for biomedicine, integrated circuits, the incubation time limit of not more than sixty months.      

The above graduated enterprises refer to those that satisfy one of the following conditions:

(a) being recognized as national high-tech enterprises;

(ii) total cumulative equity financing (paid-in amount for qualified institutional investors) exceeds two million yuan;

(iii) annual operating revenue exceeds five million yuan for two consecutive years;

(iv) annual operating revenue exceeds five million yuan;

(v) annual operating revenue exceeds five million yuan;

(D) be merged, acquired or listed in the domestic and international capital markets, listed.

The qualification of the recognized incubator is valid for three years from the date of recognition, and must be re-recognized after the expiration of the period.

Article 16

Incubation Carrier Recognition Reward

The newly recognized national and Guangdong Science and Technology Enterprise Incubator can be granted respectively with A one-time reward of three million yuan and two million yuan will be given to the newly recognized national and Guangdong science and technology business incubators respectively. If more than one reward level is reached within the validity period of these measures, the reward will be given according to the highest level by making up the difference.

The newly recognized national record of crowds creation space, Guangdong Province crowds creation space can be given a one-time reward of 600,000 yuan, 500,000 yuan respectively. If more than one reward level is reached within the validity period of these measures, the reward will be given according to the highest level by making up the difference.

For the newly awarded national or Guangdong Province Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao, internationalized and specialized qualifications of crowdspring space and science and technology business incubator, crowdspring space and science and technology business incubator will be awarded 200,000 RMB and 400,000 RMB respectively for each qualification.

Article 17

Incubation Carrier Operation Incentives

For carriers that have obtained the qualification certification of science and technology business incubation carriers in the State, Guangdong Province and the Cooperation Area, the carriers shall be awarded the following rewards For those carriers that have obtained the qualification of national and Guangdong Province's or cooperative area's science and technology business incubation carriers, and have introduced and nurtured science and technology enterprises that meet one of the following conditions, the operating unit of the incubation carrier may be rewarded at the rate of 100,000 yuan for each enterprise, and the annual reward for a single incubation carrier shall not exceed three million yuan:

(a) newly recognized specialized, special and new " small giant" enterprises within the validity of the Measures;

(ii) National high-tech enterprises and specialized small and medium-sized enterprises newly included in the above-scale statistical database of the Zone within the validity period of the Measures;

(iii) Unicorn enterprises, potential enterprises, and other enterprises recognized by the Zone. Unicorn enterprises, potential unicorn enterprises, and seed unicorn enterprises recognized by the Cooperation Zone;

(d) Enterprises whose total amount of new equity financing in the past two years (paid-in amount of qualified institutional investors) has reached more than 20 million yuan.

The above enterprises must have substantial operations in the incubator, and the same enterprise cannot be used repeatedly to apply for operation incentives.

Chapter 5

Attachments

Article 18

Specialized Support

Enterprises meeting one of the following conditions shall be entitled to the support provided for in Articles 10, 13, 16, and 17 of these Measures at one hundred and twenty percent of the established standards:

(a) Enterprises belonging to the category of Macao-funded enterprises;

(ii) Macao affiliates are certified by the Macao SAR Government as key technology enterprises.

Article 19

Applicable Principles 

Except for the laws and regulations, the subject of the application shall not be affected by the application for other policies of the State and Guangdong Province while enjoying the present measures. Its application for other policy support and preferences of the state and Guangdong Province, except those borne or supported by the cooperative zone finance.

Unless otherwise provided for in these Measures, if there is any duplication or intersection between these Measures and other policies issued by the Cooperation Zone and those policies that the higher-level units require the Cooperation Zone to undertake or support financially, the subject of the application may adopt the principle of "merit not duplication" to choose one to apply, except for the provisions of the other provisions. The main body of the application can adopt the principle of "merit and not duplication" to choose one to apply.

Article 20

Funding Supervision

The main body of the applicant shall guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, and legitimacy of the application materials.

The applicant should ensure the completeness, authenticity, accuracy and legality of the application materials, and bear the legal responsibility of the submitted project application materials, such as the applicant subject to provide false materials, fraudulent support for the funding, according to the relevant provisions of the serious investigation, the situation is serious, the relevant legal responsibility.

If the applicant subject violates national laws and regulations and is subject to criminal punishment or is given a fine, confiscation of illegal income, confiscation of illegal property and restriction on the conduct of production and business activities, ordered to suspend production, ordered to close down the administrative penalties, the applicant is prohibited from applying for the relevant subsidies.

If the applicant subject moves out, cancels or changes the obligation to pay taxes or pay statistics in the Zone within five years from the date of obtaining the last amount of subsidy under the Measures, the applicant subject shall be entitled to a one-time refund of all subsidy and interest at the prevailing Loan-to-Value Rates (LPR).

Article 21

Right of Interpretation

These Measures shall be interpreted and implemented by the Economic Development Bureau of the Cooperation Zone.

Article 22

Date of Enforcement and Validity Period

These Measures shall be enforced on January 1, 2023, and shall be valid until December 31, 2025.