(1) The projects supported by the Innovation Fund shall be those that conform to the national industrial technology policy, have high innovation level, strong market competitiveness, good potential economic benefits and social benefits, and are expected to form the transformation of high-tech achievements in emerging industries.
(2) The enterprise has been legally registered in the local administrative department for industry and commerce, has the qualification of an enterprise legal person and has a sound financial management system; The number of employees shall not exceed 500 in principle, and the proportion of scientific and technical personnel with college education or above shall not be less than 30% of the total number of employees. High-tech enterprises recognized by the competent department of science and technology of the people's government at or above the provincial level can carry out large-scale production of technological innovation projects, and the conditions for the number of enterprises and the proportion of technical personnel can be appropriately relaxed.
(3) Enterprises should be mainly engaged in the research, development, production and service of high-tech products, and the person in charge of the enterprise should have a strong sense of innovation, a high market development ability and a high management level. The annual expenditure of enterprises on research and development of high-tech products is not less than 3% of sales, and the scientific and technical personnel directly engaged in research and development should account for more than 10% of the total number of employees. For enterprises that have leading products and will gradually form mass production and large-scale production, they must have good business performance.
6. The Innovation Fund encourages and gives priority to supporting joint innovation in Industry-University-Research, and gives priority to supporting various projects with independent intellectual property rights, high technology content and high added value, which can attract a large number of jobs, save energy and reduce consumption, be conducive to environmental protection and earn foreign exchange through export.
Seven, the innovation fund shall not support low-level redundant construction, simple capital construction, technology introduction and general processing industry projects.
Eight, according to the different characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprises and projects, innovative funds are supported in different ways, such as discount loans, free subsidies and capital investment:
(1) Loan discount: In principle, for innovative projects that reach a certain level, scale and benefit, interest discount is adopted to support them to use bank loans to expand production scale. Generally, subsidies are given according to 50%- 100% of the annual interest of the loan amount, and the total discount is generally not more than 1 10,000 yuan, and the maximum for a single major project is not more than 2 million yuan.
(2) Free subsidy: it is mainly used for the necessary subsidy in product research and development and pilot stage of technological innovation of small and medium-sized enterprises, and the subsidy for scientific researchers to start enterprises with scientific and technological achievements to transform their achievements. The amount of funding is generally not more than 6,543,800 yuan, and the maximum amount of a single major project is not more than 2 million yuan, and the enterprise must have its own matching funds with the same amount or more.
(3) Capital investment: for a few projects with high starting point, wide innovation connotation, high innovation level, great potential for subsequent innovation, large market demand after production, and expected to form emerging industries, capital investment will be adopted. The main purpose of capital investment is to guide other capital investment, and the amount generally does not exceed 20% of the registered capital of the enterprise. In principle, it can be transferred according to law, or the investment can be recovered according to law in the form of cooperative operation within the prescribed time limit. Specific measures shall be formulated separately.