The 2023 Greater Bay Area Science Forum (GSF) kicked off on May 21 in Nansha, 
Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. With the theme of "Bring Together Wisdom, Bring 
Together World", this forum sets 13 sub-forums and has attracted experts in 
various fields who held discussions online and offline on scientific frontier 
topics such as marine science, nanoscience, high energy physics, advanced 
manufacturing, and artificial intelligence, and how to continue to promote the 
construction of talent highlands in the GBA and form a high-end science and 
technology talent gathering effect.

Bai Chunli, president of the Alliance of International Science Organizations 
(ANSO), chairman of the GSF, and academician of the Chinese Academy of 
Sciences, said in his speech that the GSF is based on the Bay Area and actively 
cooperates with Hong Kong and Macao to play the role of high-end platforms and 
communication hubs. He added, the GSF interacts with global scientists, 
international scientific organizations, and all sectors of society to explore 
global hot issues to promote the exchanges and sharing of scientific 
achievements, stimulate the collision of innovative ideas, speed up the 
connection of rules, mechanisms, and is committed to forming an open innovation 
ecosystem for the construction of the GBA through participating deeply in 
global scientific and technological cooperation.

During this forum, the National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences 
released the "GBA Innovation and Development Patent Index Report (2023)", which 
is based on patent data and builds a patent index to reveal the characteristics 
and development trends of scientific and technological innovation in the GBA.

The report shows that from 2017 to 2022, the number of invention patent 
applications of enterprises in the GBA accounted for 73.44% of the patent 
application volume of the GBA, and the amount of invention patent granted of 
enterprises accounted for 78.33% of the number of invention patent granted of 
the GBA. The application volume of enterprises' PCT accounts for 94.43% of the 
volume of PCT application of the GBA.

The patent data quoted by the report shows that the GBA possesses technical 
advantages in multiple industries such as new generation of information 
technology, new energy vehicles and new materials.

In recent years, with the accelerated construction of the International Science 
and Technology Innovation Center of the GBA, the innovation driving force of 
the GBA has continued to increase. Wang Yueqin, director of the Department of 
Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, said that Guangdong actively 
cooperates with Hong Kong and Macao, continuously deepens the connection and 
mechanism connection of GBA's scientific and technological innovation rules, 
and accelerates the promotion of GBA's science and technology exchanges and 
cooperation in terms of factors, platforms, projects, and talents.

As the host place of the GSF, Nansha is eager to promoting scientific and 
technological innovation cooperation, sharing the innovation achievements, and 
building an open innovation ecology facing the world. Official data shows that 
in the field of artificial intelligence and life and health, more than 1,000 
companies have gathered in Nansha.

In addition, the joint technology innovation of GBA continues to deepen in 
Nansha. After the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) 
started in Nansha, the Science and Technology Park of Hong Kong University of 
Science and Technology and the Nangsha Incubation Base of Hong Kong Science and 
Technology Parks have accelerated.

Source: 2023 Greater Bay Area Science Forum