The National Academy Wenzhou Research Institute (NAWRI) recently held a major signing ceremony for projects totalling over ¥1 billion in investment. The agreements cover multiple fields including project funding, collaborative R&D, and dedicated project funds.

At the ceremony, the Institute finalized partnerships with several high-quality enterprises. A series of flagship projects officially began, and an incubation-management company for institute-enterprise collaborations was also inaugurated simultaneously.

A highlighted project, titled “High‑end Semiconductor Photoresist Clean-container”, involves a collaboration between NAWRI-incubated Wenzhou Tianji Wenketech New Materials Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Zhonghongyun Technology Management Partnership. With wholly owned independent intellectual property rights, this development fills a domestic gap and supports China’s efforts to overcome reliance bottlenecks in semiconductor materials.

Meanwhile, NAWRI‑incubated Wenzhou Qingfeng Biomedical Technology Co., Ltd. signed an agreement with leading domestic in vitro diagnostics (IVD) firm Hangzhou Bori Technology Co., Ltd. They will jointly develop medical diagnostic instruments aimed at accelerating the R&D and deployment of high-end domestically produced testing equipment and reducing import dependence.

In addition, National Academy Wenzhou Technology Development Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Zhejiang Zhongyi Holdings Co., Ltd. to establish a dedicated project fund. The fund will focus on incubating and scaling up industrial projects emerging from the institute, aiming to accelerate the transformation of technological achievements into commercial outcomes across new materials, intelligent equipment, life-health, and artificial intelligence sectors.

Ye Fangfu, Deputy Director of NAWRI, stated that they hope to establish long-term and stable strategic partnerships with enterprises. The goal is to deepen cooperation, jointly build high-level innovation platforms, tackle core technologies, and promote the economic realization of scientific achievements.

In recent years, NAWRI has innovated its mechanisms to build a full‑chain ecosystem for technology commercialization, utilizing joint R&D centers and technology vice-presidents. Through a “problem posed by enterprises, solved by institutes” model, it has partnered with local companies such as Huafeng Group and Zhejiang Xingyao Semiconductor to address technical challenges. To date, the institute has completed over ¥130 million in technology transactions, incubated more than 70 tech companies, secured over ¥450 million in financing, and achieved a total incubatee valuation of ¥2 billion—setting a benchmark for the growth of new‑type R&D institutions.