For a long time, the state has supported universities to carry out scientific research activities, and a simple employment relationship has been formed between the government and university scientists.

The government provides funding, and scientists make inventions, apply for patents, and publish articles.

After the transaction, the scientist goes to apply for the next government grant, and then he makes new inventions, and then a new cycle is repeated.

As of 2005, the country found that it was not possible to operate like this, and the patent conversion rate was only 5%, not to mention compared with the United States, and even compared with Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, France and Australia, it was thrown a few streets away.

So there was the Chinese version of the Bayh-Dole Act, the Science Progress Act.

Shen Qi and the others are doing similar things, inventing and creating, applying for patents, and publishing articles.

But Shen Qi would not simply hand over errands, and after greeting President Lu, he found Director Qi, the person in charge of the Technology Transfer Center of Yan University.

Director Qi is the leader of the Technology Transfer Center of Yanda University, but he is not from a technical background, but a legal expert, and Yanda invited him back from the United States.

What is the new department of Yanda Technology Transfer Center, which has been established for more than five years, to do?

Internally, they are the service department, serving the scientists and scientific research teams of Yanda with professional legal knowledge in patent application, intellectual property protection, technology transfer, etc.

Externally, they represent Yanda University, and also rely on professional legal means to negotiate with enterprises, and finally facilitate the transaction of patent development rights.

Scientists are not necessarily proficient in patent law, and in practice, front-line scientific researchers often have a one-sided understanding of patents, and even have some mistakes.

For example, if you don't know how to apply for a patent, or how to use a patent to protect your innovation, you can file a patent application with a very small claim, and in many cases there is only one independent claim.

It is precisely because of the lack of professionalism in the legal aspect that it was common for patent inventors and enterprises to fight each other.

Companies often say that inventors are not honest and that the patents they buy have no practical value at all.

Inventors complained that the company did not respect intellectual property rights, had no credibility, and did not pay the license fee according to the sales commission.

The mistrust between buyers and sellers has created a dilemma where China's patent conversion rate is only 5%.

Shen Qi knew very well that professional things had to be done by professional people, so he found Director Qi: "Director Qi, this is probably the case with my project, and then I will trouble you." ”

Director Qi, who graduated from Harvard Law School, patted his chest and promised: "Academician Shen, please rest assured that our Technology Transfer Center will provide you with one-stop service. Over the past five years, we have done many successful cases, helping Yanda transfer more than 250 scientific and technological achievements, bringing more than 2.7 billion yuan of cumulative income to schools and inventors, and the complaint rate of inventors and enterprises is less than 1%. ”

Look, what is called professionalism, this is called professionalism.

Director Qi's department is a very professional intermediary service department, their upper family is a scientist like Shen Qi, and the next family is an outside company.

However, the intermediary service department of Yanda Technology Transfer Center does not charge intermediary fees, and they serve scientists and enterprises with a red heart.

If an industry wants to develop healthily and rapidly, system and talent are the most important indicators.

Shen Qi has the advantage of staying in Yanda, Yanda enjoys certain preferential treatment in the system, and there is no shortage of professionals in all aspects.

Under the professional operation of professional talents, Shen Qi's team quickly applied for patent protection for Ce-Al-Cu metal plastics.

Because the FASTER project is state-funded, the resulting intellectual property remains with the state.

However, with the support of the legal provisions of the "Science Progress Law" and the institutional support of Yanda enjoying preferential policy treatment, the patent development right of Ce-Al-Cu metal plastics, that is, the commercial development right, belongs to the invention team of Yanda.

If the commercial development rights of Ce-Al-Cu metal and plastic are sold, Shen Qi's team will have to pay part of the money to the school.

This rule is understandable for Shen Qi, after all, Yan University is a national university and not a private institution.

As for how much money to pay, that is an internal matter of Yanda, and everything is negotiable.

As for writing a thesis, there is no need for Shen Qi to do it himself now, he has so many doctors under him, just grab one of them, and send it out after writing.

"Research and Preparation of Ce-Al-Cu Metal Plastics" was written by Tang Yuan, and after he finished writing, he hung Shen Qi's name and sent it out.

The setting of the system is that regardless of whether the paper is written by Shen Qi himself, as long as it is published and Shen Qi's name is in the list of authors, then Shen Qi can get Xueba points.

"Research and Preparation of Ce-Al-Cu Metal-Plastics" was published in Physics Today, a journal sponsored by the American Physical Society.

I don't know if it's because of the data or what's going on, the latest IF value of Physics Today is as high as 27.928, which is the highest in the world's physics journals and more than twice that of the famous physics journal Physical Review Letters.

The abbreviation of Physical Review Letters, also sponsored by the American Physical Society, is PRL, and Shen Qi is an old friend of this journal.

This time, Shen Qi chose his new friend "Physics Today", and there is only one reason, the IF value of others is high.

A high IF value means that there are many Xueba points, and Shen Qi has gained nearly 1.4 million Xueba points.

A high IF value also means that the journal has been viewed and cited more times.

February 1 has passed, and the work of recommending candidates for the Nobel Prize will end on December 10 this year.

Between now and mid-October, the Nobel Prize selection committee will conduct a rigorous review of the recommended candidates who meet the criteria.

The judging process was kept confidential and the results were announced in mid-October.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences pays close attention to international authoritative academic journals, and it is not clear how to pay attention to it, but there is such a thing anyway.

"Physics Today" reported on the research and preparation of Ce-Al-Cu metal plastics by Shen Qi's team, combined with the condensed matter physics theoretical system proposed by Shen Qi before, and the news that Shen Qi is a Nobel Prize candidate, Shen Qi has become a hot topic of attention in the international physics community.

In 2005, a team from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a new type of amorphous material called metal plastic for the first time in PRL.

In the same year, the British journal Nature partially quoted the Chinese team's article in PRL and commented on the new findings under the headline "Getting softer."

This year, Nature quoted the article "Research and Preparation of Ce-Al-Cu Metal-Plastics" by Shen Qi's team in Physics Today for the first time, and published a comment.

"The Chinese key is self-created and self-tested, he puts forward the theory, and he verifies the theory. As can be seen from this article published in Physics Today, Ce-Al-Cu metalplastic has a bright prospect for commercialization. ”

Shen Qi put away the latest issues of Physics Today and Nature, and top journals in the United States and the United Kingdom have said that the research results obtained by our team in the laboratory have a wide range of commercial prospects.

"Tang Yuan, I handed over Physics Today and Nature to Director Qi of the Technology Transfer Center, who is a legal expert and may not read much non-legal professional journals. Shen Qi arranged for Tang Yuan to do such a thing.

It didn't take long for Tang Yuan to come back with these two journals: "Director Qi has a team under him, all of whom are engaged in technology, and they have read the top ten journals in the world in physics, chemistry, medicine, biology, computer, engineering, etc. "Physics Today" and "Nature" are their regular readings. ”

"It's really professional enough!" Shen Qi praised Director Qi, who now fully trusts the professionalism and professionalism of Director Qi's team.

"Wait a minute, they don't read journals on mathematics?" Shen Qi asked, but thinking about it, the transformation of mathematical research results is too difficult, and it takes more time to read a mathematical paper than to read a physicochemical biology paper. Technicians who are not majoring in mathematics may not be able to read highly specialized mathematics articles.

A few days later, Chemical Review, a journal sponsored by the American Chemical Society, commented on the article published by Shen Qi's team in the physics journal Physics Today.

Chemical Review has an IF value of 47.251, which is higher than Nature and Science.

As the name suggests, Chemical Review does not publish original articles, they only publish reviews.

"Shen Qi's team synthesized Ce-Al-Cu metal plastics doped with Ge and Sn for the first time, the specific composition proportion and detailed experimental preparation technology can not be known, from the performance data and physical pictures, we can find that this amorphous alloy has a good application prospect. ”

After seeing this report from "Chemical Review", Shen Qi was stunned, the American Chemical Society is idle, isn't it?

Yes, condensed matter physics is very cross-cutting, especially in the subdivision of the synthesis and preparation of amorphous materials, it is difficult to distinguish physics and chemistry.

But what "Chemical Review" did easily reminded Shen Qi of Rutherford.

If you find an introduction to Rutherford on any source, it is usually written according to this template: Rutherford, the famous British physicist, the father of nuclear physics. He is recognized by academic circles as the greatest experimental physicist since Faraday.

Rutherford was a true physics geese, one might even say a physics maniac, and he famously said, "Science is either physics or philately." ”

In that special era, Rutherford didn't pay attention to numbers, transformation, and life at all, and only physics was in his heart.

However, on a cool autumn day in 1908, Rutherford, the greatest experimental physicist since Faraday, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

In recognition of the outstanding physicist Rutherford's important contributions to the field of chemistry, the international chemical community named element No. 104 Rtherfordium.

This element translated into Chinese is a golden word next to + a lu.

Until his death, Rutherford was not able to win the Nobel Prize in Physics for which he coveted and fought for all his life.

There is also a similar figure in contemporary times, namely Shen Qi's physics mentor, the famous physicist Edward Witten, who won the Fields Medal.

According to historical records, at the end of 1907 and the first half of 1908, the chemical community frantically called for Rutherford, which may have been an important factor in Rutherford's eventual victory in chemistry.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is very concerned about the latest developments in the international academic community, especially journals such as Chemical Review, which has an IF value of 47.251 and is known in the international academic circle for its sharp review style.

Shen Qi drank a cup of coffee to suppress his shock, he never thought about winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he had only one goal in the near future: the Nobel Prize in Physics.