Criminal Regulation of the Risk of Scientific and Technological Innovation——Taking the Rule of Law Safeguards for New Quality Productive Forces as an Entry Point
Chu Chencheng, Liu Yang
School of Law, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
Abstract：In the context of the development of new quality productive forces oriented to scientific and technological innovation,the criminal law simultaneously presents the reverse phenomenon of over-criminalization of scientific research and under-protection of the transformation of scientific research results.The former is in the preventive legislation that expands the legal infringement of scientific and technological research,and the strict justice that confuses the determination of scientific research fund management in the crime of embezzlement.The latter is manifested in the legislation of patent crime that excessively restricts the establishment standard of constitutive elements,which results in the judicial practice that rarely applies the crime of counterfeiting patents.In this regard,the criminal law needs to reflect on the expansion of criminalization for scientific and technological research,the strict criminalization of scientific research funds management,scientific and technological patent infringement civil remedy theory,and other established views.The principle of freedom of scientific research requires the addition of elements of scientific and technological ethical scrutiny about relative crimes,so as to exclude acts that do not involve a general need for prevention and a substantial risk of harm to legal interests.The principle of weighing interests requires that not only the extension of“official”and“public property”should be clarified to limit the application of the crime of embezzlement,but also“the purpose of illegal possession”should be globally recognized to distinguish between the illegal use of scientific research funds and the crime of embezzlement.The patent protection mechanism of scientific and technological innovation under the principle of public welfare protection requires that the criminal law should expand the constituent elements of the crime of patent counterfeiting,set up the second level of statutory penalties,and create crimes related to the infringement of patent rights.
储陈城, 刘扬. 科技创新风险的刑法规制——以新质生产力的法治保障为切入点[J]. 中国科技论坛, 2025(5): 10-20.
Chu Chencheng, Liu Yang. Criminal Regulation of the Risk of Scientific and Technological Innovation——Taking the Rule of Law Safeguards for New Quality Productive Forces as an Entry Point. , 2025(5): 10-20.
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