China’s latest push to commercialize research: match 680,000 innovators with companies

Only a small portion of patents owned by universities in China become commercial products. Credit: Xu Changliang/VCG via Getty China’s intellectual-property regulator has been playing matchmaker — connecting researchers with patents to companies that can commercialize them. Last month, the China National Intellectual Property Administration said that as a result of these introductions around 80,000 patents from universities and research institutes have been commercialised between 2023 to 2025. …