The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and three other departments issued a notice on October 23 to further prevent harmful intermediary agencies from affecting the cultivation and certification of high-quality small and medium-sized enterprises, and to keep polishing the "golden signboard" of specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative enterprises.
The notice specifies that in the certification of specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative SMEs and the preliminary review and recommendation of specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative "little giant" enterprises, provincial SME authorities should improve review mechanisms and standardize whole-process management, effectively using rigorous review procedures to cut off the channels through which intermediary agencies interfere with and influence the evaluation work; SME authorities should help enterprises fully understand application policies and review procedures, promptly release and respond to hot issues, and reduce information asymmetry.
The notice requires SME authorities to strengthen comparison and verification of key data, study and establish a front-end patent screening mechanism, and explore the use of artificial intelligence, big data and other technologies; SME authorities, cyberspace authorities and intellectual property authorities should jointly address acts by application-related intermediary agencies such as publishing false information, distorting interpretations of relevant application and certification policies, releasing false promotional and advertising information related to application services, and soliciting business by using guaranteed commitments about application results as a gimmick.
In addition, for enterprises involved in data or material falsification, SME authorities will cancel their certification and they may not apply again within three years; typical cases of harmful intermediary agencies will be reported on the gradient cultivation platform for high-quality SMEs.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will next strictly organize the certification of specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative "little giant" enterprises, and through methods such as the quality evaluation of specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative development of SMEs, special inspections of work on SMEs and high-tech enterprises, and unannounced inspections of specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative SMEs, improve the quality of cultivation and certification of high-quality SMEs and prevent the influence of harmful intermediary agencies.
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