The Necessity and Countermeasures of Agricultural Technology Innovation Cooperation between China and Switzerland
As China's first innovation strategic partnership country,Switzerland has a good foundation for the collaboration with China in agricultural science,research and innovation.The two countries have strong complementarities in agricultural science and technology,many common interests and strategies,extensive cooperation areas,and great collaborative spaces and potentials.Strengthening and promoting the China-Switzerland collaboration in agricultural science,technology and innovation will help to jointly address major regional or global agricultural challenges.For this reason,this paper firstly analysed the necessities of strengthening the China-Switzerland collaboration in the agricultural science,technology and innovation,compared the development characteristics of agricultural science and technology between China and Switzerland and summarized the development trend of bilateral collaboration,and then focused on analyzing some problems in the bilateral collaboration.Lastly,some countermeasures and suggestions were present to strengthen the China-Switzerland collaboration in agricultural science,technology and innovation from the perspectives of project management,outcome evaluation,project funding and engagement scope of relevant stakeholders,thus providing references for the in-depth exploration of future collaborative mechanisms between the two countries.