关键词: 石油企业, 科技奖励, 埃尼奖, 中国石油, 中国石化, 创新文化

Abstract: Technological innovation awards granted by oil companies are usually non-governmental and characterized with incentive, guidance and continuity. It is one of the important ways to encourage technological professionals for inventions and help technological achievements find a wider application. The awarding system includes a series of essential elements, such as launch of prize items, reviewing criteria, prize-awarding bodies, working procedures and promotions of prizes. Oil companies attach great importance to such awards to create an environment for innovations and improve their innovative capability and market competitiveness. This article uses the elements of technological award to analyze what has been done by Italy’s ENI and domestic oil companies in this area. Based on China’s general situation of non-governmental technological awards and the domestic oil companies’ efforts for innovation-driven development, this article makes analysis and study of the Chinese oil companies’ technological prize-awarding system and further emphasizes the principles of guidance, openness, equality and publicity for technological innovation awards.