Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1891 Comrade Xiaomiao
Zhou Zhi continued, "But as a technical consultant for a private enterprise, Xiao Miao's identity does not present such a problem."

"We at Clover Group are willing to invest in building a scientific research laboratory for it and share the research IP results with it. This is a very common corporate behavior internationally, and almost all information technology companies have this approach."

"We have also used this mechanism for Academician Li and Mr. Masuoka before, and the effect is remarkable, without any strange noise interference. It can be seen that this model is widely accepted around the world."

"This is based on Xiao Miao's personal identity and safety, and also on considerations for the country."

"This is a forward-looking science and technology, and its success or failure is hard to predict. It is possible that the country will invest heavily in it for many years but will hardly see any output."

"The pressure accumulated in this way may be too great for the parties to bear, and eventually lead to the failure of the project." Zhou Zhi said: "my country has learned such profound lessons in large-scale IT industry projects."

This was a mistake made in China's chip industry before it was established. Although the consequences of that layout error have been absorbed by Zhou Zhi and Hu Changfeng through the use of smart card chips, storage chips, DVD chips, COS industrial control chips and other industries, and they have finally corrected the detour and expanded production capacity countless times, the lesson is profound.

Such a failure would cause many people to leave the market in disgrace. Zhou Zhi was also reminding Director Song to pay attention to the risks in this regard.

"If we let enterprises do this, and then introduce the Science and Technology Commission, ministries and scientific academies to conduct joint supervision, then the country can adjust from the role of athletes to the role of coaches and referees, and the room for advancement and retreat will be much greater, and the risk of public opinion will be easier to control."

This made the participants on the other side of the meeting nod their heads secretly. The country has been calling for the separation of government and business. Other aspects are easy to say, but this kind of forward-looking science requires large investment and is difficult to produce. It is unlikely that any company will be willing to take on such responsibility, and most of them will continue with the original operating mechanism.

However, there are also disadvantages to this approach, namely that the problems of old state-owned enterprises are deep-rooted and difficult to cure.

There have been calls from above that since the mechanism is difficult to change, then some more competitive and dynamic members should be introduced to join in, so that they can trigger the catfish effect and activate this stagnant water.

However, everyone is still brainstorming on how to do it.

Now the Clover Group has actually stepped forward on its own initiative to undertake the task. Although the participants appeared to remain silent on the surface, in fact, more than half of them have been persuaded to agree.

"Finally, there are the issues of funding and remuneration," Zhou Zhi said. "The country needs money everywhere now. The funds that can be allocated to national scientific research projects and the remuneration that can be given to scientific researchers are destined not to be too high. "Those who make missiles are not as good as those who sell tea eggs" has become a catchphrase in society a few years ago."

"It would be easy for anyone else, but Xiao Miao's income and allowance, as well as the funding given to him by Mr. Cai..."

"Don't worry about me." Mai Xiaomiao finally couldn't help but speak: "Like Mr. Zhou said, I have a source of income in school. This time I came back to help Shu University set up a laboratory. You don't have to worry about my personal income. I just ask you to consider the laboratory funds fully."

"That's what Xiao Miao said, but we can't do that." Zhou Zhi disagreed: "Xiao Miao's current annual income is about 300,000 to 400,000 US dollars, and the experimental funds must be calculated in millions of US dollars, plus other travel expenses, even if it is 1.5 million US dollars a year, it is almost 10 million RMB. First, the country may find it difficult to allocate so much funds. Second, even if it is allocated, there is no guarantee that the laboratories of other projects will not have objections."

This is also a real problem. In fact, Director Song has not figured out how to solve it. Shu University wants to compete for this project. Although it has many advantages, it is also vague about the funding.

In fact, everyone knows that 4-5 million yuan of funding each year is already a considerable support, but if it is really given in this way, according to Zhou Zhi, the salary that Mai Xiaomiao deserves will account for half of it. Although Mai Xiaomiao clearly stated that her personal income can be ignored, as the main talent introduced by the state, she cannot be ignored anyway.

Spending a thousand gold coins to buy a horse bone sounds nice and exciting, but when the account is carefully calculated, everyone realizes how difficult it was for King Zhao of Yan back then.

"If, I mean if." Director Song said, "If this task is given to Clover, can you give Xiao Miao such treatment?"

"We pay our top consultants an annual salary of $400,000." Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "This income is certainly not very high in the international market, but fortunately, there are project output incentives linked to it, which makes Masuoka very satisfied with his income."

In the island country, people who sit on the bench in a company are called "window seats", which means you can only sit there and stare out the window without doing anything. When Fujio Masuoka was in the island country, he had basically fallen to that level, but he had a lot of experience, so his annual income was actually not bad, but not as much as Mai Xiaomiao is making now.

Being poached with an annual salary of $400,000 was already quite attractive to Masuoka.

However, what allows Masuoka to still work as hard as a young man is the very generous incentive mechanism of Clover.

According to Clover's incentive mechanism, for all Clover's IPs, developers have a considerable proportion of "contribution value", and these contribution values ​​will be converted from product revenue as a reward for the developers.

Masuoka is the inventor of flash memory chips. This type of "independent researcher" accounts for a very high proportion of the IP contribution value. Now, Masuoka will get a share of every flash memory particle produced by Clover Group itself or under license.

The share of a flash memory particle is almost negligible, but if the global annual output is added up, what Masuoka can get is an extremely rich fortune.

Of course, Mai Xiaomiao's projects are unlikely to produce immediate results like Lao Masuoka's, but Clover can still provide basic consultant and expert-level treatment.

"The key is R&D funding." Zhou Zhi continued, "Given that Xiao Miao's research project is highly consistent with the direction of our group's software industry, we are of course willing to increase investment to improve our group's productivity and future market competitiveness. This funding investment will definitely not be less than the amount given to her by Professor Cai's laboratory."

After discussing it for a while, everyone agreed that this was actually a good plan, but there were many problems that needed to be solved.

For example, how can Clover Group ensure timely, sufficient and continuous investment? For example, the emphasis between group goals and national goals? For example, the training of successor talents? For example, the sharing of intellectual property rights...

These are issues that affect the entire body and must be considered and resolved.

"We can continue to discuss these issues later." Director Song wrote down all these issues in his notebook: "There is one issue we haven't considered yet, and that is Xiao Miao's personal inclination."

"Comrade Xiao Miao, which of the two options do you personally prefer?"