Video Game Empire

After sending off the delegation of the principals from the mainland, Li Xuan convened several presidents and vice presidents of the company to hold a closed-door meeting to discuss cooperation with mainland universities and scientific research institutions.

"The overall level of the electronics industry in mainland China is relatively backward, but it has hundreds of universities, hundreds of scientific research and design units, and more than 100,000 professional engineering and technical personnel. If this power can be used by our company, it can undoubtedly be Greatly enhance the company's scientific research competitiveness!" Li Xuan flicked the relevant data collected with his fingers.

"Xuan Shao, what you said is only data on paper, but we don't know the actual situation in the mainland. If we make an investment rashly, it is very likely that the bamboo basket will come to nothing!"

Wang Ying, the vice president of administration, first expressed her objection. She felt that the current R&D investment of Dongfang Electronics has been a little too aggressive. In her opinion, the foundation of Dongfang Electronics is the arcade industry, but the company is currently developing only five or six new arcade projects. Among them, the real progress is rapid, and only the game "Mario Brothers" can be brought to the market within this year.

Even if you count the "Pac-Man" game that was acquired from Japan's Namco Corporation not long ago, there are only two games that the company can list in the second half of the year. It is far from comparable to the speed of rival Sega, with dozens of new games a year.

Hong Kong cubes and tank battles can be an instant hit, but that doesn't mean that the next "Mario" will continue to be brilliant. As for "Pac-Man", Wang Ying is not optimistic about its prospects at all. It has been proved to be a failed game in the Japanese market. As a result, her boss has taken advantage of it and spent 6 million dollars on it. The copyright was bought.

Even if you have money, you can't spend it like this, although Dongfang Electronics is now very profitable and has plenty of cash. But if a new game "Mario" is not as popular as expected, and the two old games of Hong Kong Box and Tank War have passed their peak sales, the company's cash flow will immediately dry up.

From Wang Ying's point of view, Dongfang Electronics is now like cooking oil on fire. Although it looks prosperous, it is already in danger. If investing in projects such as handheld game consoles and home video game consoles can be considered as a solid foundation in the industry, investing in electronic laboratories and semiconductor laboratories is completely blind expansion.

Li Xuan shook his head with a slightly wry smile. He didn't know what Wang Ying was thinking. The other party had expressed his views several times before. But Li Xuan can't tell her that "Mario" will definitely achieve more brilliant success than "Hong Kong Square" and "Tank War".

Even if he said so, the other party might not believe it. She can only wait for the release of "Pac-Man" in the United States next month, and use the solid sales results to let her and other people in the company who have the same opinion as her temporarily reassure.

"Annie's opinion is somewhat reasonable!" He Guoyuan said with a frown. Annie is Wang Ying's English name, "The political system in the mainland is completely different from that of Hong Kong, and there is no perfect law to rely on. Especially the mainland government has now There are no laws and regulations to protect intellectual property rights. Even if we cooperate with scientific research institutions in the mainland to obtain scientific research results, it may be infringed and no real benefits can be obtained!”

The first Patent Law in China was promulgated in 1984 because the German side strongly urged the Chinese government to speed up the revision process in order to protect its intellectual property rights when it negotiated a joint venture with Volkswagen to establish SH Volkswagen.

"Even if it is infringed by a mainland company, it doesn't matter. For a long time in the future, our main markets for Dongfang Electronics will definitely be Europe, the United States and Japan. As long as we can collect the international patents of relevant scientific research results in time, even if we lose the mainland market, it will be completely lost. acceptable!"

Li Xuan had fundamentally considered how much patent fees he could receive in China in the 1980s. Even if the "Patent Law" is promulgated, for a long period of time, domestic enterprises that should infringe will still infringe.

"Then how are you going to cooperate with institutions in the Mainland?" Han Peng had just rushed back to Hong Kong from the United Kingdom, and the exhaustion on his face was clear at a glance.

"There are mainly two aspects: talent exchange and project commissioned research and development. The first point of talent exchange, I hope to do a long-term investment. Relying on the semiconductor laboratory and electronic laboratory, we provide relevant cooperation universities and scientific research in the mainland every year. A certain number of places in the institution.

They are invited to send some outstanding young and middle-aged scholars and professors to Hong Kong for one to three-year academic exchanges. In this way, we can not only gradually establish the popularity of Dongfang Electronics in China, but also provide a steady stream of excellent scientific research blood for the two laboratories! "

Li Xuan paused and continued, "As for the entrusted research and development of the project, we can refer to our current cooperative research and development model with CUHK and Hong Kong University. The two laboratories open applications for scientific research projects to domestic partner universities. Anything that meets our requirements. , For projects that have passed the laboratory review, the project team of the other party will sign an entrusted research and development agreement with the laboratory.

According to the project plan, we allocate corresponding scientific research funds and scientific research equipment, and in the process of project research and development, we regularly conduct audit and supervision on the use of funds and project progress. Finally, we apply for overseas patents in time according to the corresponding scientific research results!

This entrusted research and development model is actually similar to the sample processing that is currently popular in mainland China. It's just that in our cooperation, the input raw materials are intelligence, and the output products are technology patents! "

"What is the scale of the first phase of cooperation?" Han Peng continued to ask.

"The specific scale can be large or small, and we will discuss it according to the actual situation. The first batch of cooperative units, I am now considering four universities: Tsinghua University, Rongcheng Telecommunications Engineering Institute, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Yuezhou Yixian University~www. readwn.com~ and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in BJ! Among them, the presidents of Rongdian University and Shanghai Jiaotong University, I had a brief exchange at the reception reception of CUHK, and they all recognized this model! The other two universities and The Chinese Academy of Sciences also needs us to communicate."

Li Xuan knew that other people still had some doubts, and he was not ready to rush for success, so he said, "This is just an idea of ​​mine. To really implement it, I still need to communicate with CUHK and HKU first. Get their approval. Afterwards, we communicated with the mainland in the name of two laboratories. In addition to the senior management of each school, we also needed to obtain the approval of the relevant central ministries. Therefore, it was actually a rather long and complicated process to really carry out this matter.

I also know that the road has to be taken step by step, and the rice has to be eaten one bite at a time. But some preparatory work has to be done first. There is a point of view within the company that we are taking too big steps now, but in my opinion, it is not the case. What we, Dongfang Electronics, is inspired to do is a research and development enterprise, not a manufacturing enterprise.

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