Collaborative Innovation Promotes "Two Breakthroughs" in Guangdong LED Industry

Guangdong has explored and established a collaborative innovation mechanism in which various innovative elements are closely linked and coordinated with each other. This has enabled the semiconductor lighting (LED) industry to achieve “two breakthroughs” in core technology research and market application demonstration. In 2011, the scale of LED industry in Guangdong Province reached 150 billion yuan, and the output value and scale continued to rank first in the country.

According to Li Xinghua, Director of the Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, the semiconductor lighting (LED) industry is a strategic emerging industry that is supported and developed in Guangdong Province during the 12th Five-Year Plan period. The development of the LED industry faces two prominent problems. First, the core technologies and key equipment are subject to human beings, and the second is the difficulty of market promotion and application.

LED is a multidisciplinary frontier technology field involving lighting, mechanical equipment, electronic information and other industries. In August 2011, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology took the lead in organizing 21 research institutes and leading companies to jointly establish the "Guangdong Province Semiconductor Industry Lighting Industry Co-Innovation Center." With the center as a link, upstream and downstream industrial chain or complementary technology companies, relevant universities and research institutes, etc. have jointly tackled a number of core LED key technologies. At present, Guangdong has a total of 9,131 patent applications in the LED field, and 1,270 LED-licensed patents, both of which rank first in the country. Collaborative innovation in open cooperation has accelerated the pace of independent innovation in the LED industry.

LED is emerging green lighting technology, LED industry currently has high product prices, low awareness, the original interest chain resistance and other issues. To this end, Guangdong established a joint conference system for the entire province, and related departments jointly organized and implemented the “1,000 Miles” high-power LED street lamp industrialization demonstration and promotion project and the green lighting demonstration city special action. The construction of a new expressway LED lighting demonstration project has been initiated in Guangzhou (Changzhou) Lechang (Changzhou) and Bo (Luo) Shenzhen (Shenzhen), etc. The province has installed more than 260,000 LED street lights and more than 2,500 kilometers of demonstration road sections. The forefront of the country.

It is understood that experts from universities, research institutes, LED companies, and industry associations have jointly drawn up the Guangdong Province's LED industry technology roadmap, so that the government and industry can more clearly grasp the LED industry's mainstream products, industry goals and core technologies. The direction of R&D will enable industry-university-research institutes to be integrated into practice, and technological innovation will be more targeted and efficient.