The Research Of Scientific Support In Economic Development In Higher Education Of Shanxi Province

Facing with the profound changes as well as fierce competition in domestic and international economic technology, the gap between science and technology and economy remains a serious problem in Shanxi Province. Moreover, the ability to innovate and transfer technology is weak, so is the support for economy. To achieve the goal of prosperity in Shanxi Province---the central area of China, universities must give full play to science and technology, accelerate the process of transferring its scientific and technological achievements into practical productive forces so that it can better serve regional economy and social development.This paper is composed of three parts.The first part gives a comprehensive overview of the basic characteristics of economic and social development, industrial base and disadvantages of economic development in Shanxi in recent years. Meanwhile,《The collected materials of statistics data about university and college science and technology》published by Science technique department of Ministry of Education is the paper's foundation. The statistics data between 2004 and 2008 is the paper's basis. The paper makes use of vertical and horizontal comparison to research Shanxi higher education's scientific and technological ability from three aspects: technical investment, technical innovation production and technical innovation transformation. By collecting and analyzing the data on the achievements in science and technology made by colleges and universities in Shanxi Province in recent years, we can easily find science and technology plays a supporting role in the construction of local economic development in Shanxi.The second part explores the reasons which hinder the economic development and support in Shanxi higher education from the perspective of internal and social dimensions. And on this basis, seven main problems are generalized:First, the system of science and technology in higher education is rather old; Second, lack of high talents is obvious and the distribution of human resources is unbalanced; Third, the value of selection is misleading, and technology and economy "mismatch"; Fourth, the rate of technical transformation in universities is low; Fifth, the shortage of investment in science and technology is severe, displaying an unbalanced tendency; Sixth, the intermediary service system has not been formed; Seventh, science and technology lags behind legislation, and legal protection covers less areas..In the third part, by analyzing a successive of problems existing in science and technology of universities in Shanxi, combining with the actual situation in our province and learning from the experience in domestic and overseas universities to promote economic development, Shanxi universities should meet the demands in the era of Knowledge-based Age, adjust the value of higher education orientation and foster service for support. Furthermore, they should attract more intellectuals to promote economic development in Shanxi on the basis of prominent features of economic and social development of Shanxi. The paper mainly proposes the solutions to the problems in the development of scientific and technological support ability from several aspects, such as institutional policy, introduction and training of talents, the establishment of research groups, capital investment and financial channels, construction of science and technology intermediary service system and so on.