Abstract: Application oriented universities are an important part of the higher education system. Their mission is to cultivate applied talents who can adapt to economic and social development and solve practical technical problems in regional industries and enterprises. Strengthening organized research has become a critical path for application oriented universities to achieve their positioning and functions. The main value of organized research in application oriented universities lies in serving local economic and industrial development, promoting the deep integration of industry, academic and research organizations, supporting the cultivation of high-quality applied talents, and in enhancing the research capabilities and core competitiveness of universities. However, there are still some practical difficulties in the implementation of organized research in application oriented universities, such as an inadequate research management system, an inefficient mechanism for collaborative innovation among research subjects, a single evaluation standard for research work, and a lack of local characteristics in research orientation. Therefore, efforts should be made to empower the efficient implementation of organized research in four aspects: optimizing the research management system, improving the collaborative innovation mechanism among research subjects, building a diversified evaluation index system, and deepening the local characteristic orientation of research.

Key words: application-oriented universities, organized scientific research, cultivation of applied talents, university research capability