Abstract: The development of high quality scientific & technological think tanks is inseparable from
the strong support of socioeconomic data, which provides important reference for the establishment of data
service platform. This paper discusses the concept, function and classification system of S&T think tanks. It
investigates and analyzes the socioeconomic data demand content, demand characteristics, data acquisition
and utilization difficulty of the S&T think tank, as well as the core function requirement of the data service
platform through questionnaires. Statistics of governments of important countries and regions, and those of
international organizations are the main reference resources for S&T think tanks’ research. In the process
of building data service platform, we should pay particular attention to the authority of data resources,
whereas other indexes such as data integrity, timeliness and availability are also important.

Key words:  Science and technology think tank, Science and technology policy, Socioeconomic data, Data service platform