Chapter 892: Chicken Soup for the Soul
In order to shape a new corporate culture, Lin Qi can be regarded as a disgrace, not to mention disguising himself as an admirer of technology and productivity, even more extreme than the so-called industrialists in later generations.
This is also a cult of materialism, but it is a cult of productivity, and it is much more noble and pure than the so-called cult of money in the general righteousness of human progress.
The same worship of material, the simple worship of money is rotten and degenerate.
The cult of productivity can be packaged as a concern for the future and progress of mankind.
"I've been thinking about why we want to start the new venture electronics group, where we want to go, and what are our future pursuits?
In fact, when the money reaches the point where I am, making more money should not cause me more stimulation and excitement. In contrast, some shareholders and veteran employees are more or less like this.
You always need to think about a little bit of idealism in order to make your next step faster, clearer and more meaningful.
After a period of thinking, I temporarily came up with some truths, the new venture electronics group and the new venture department, such a large company, is a technology company, should not be limited to market share and profits, we should stand, on the basis of being a profitable enterprise, we should also think more about making some contributions to the future of mankind.
Humanity is the future, not on politicians, careerists, philistine, but more on ...... Innovation will bring new vitality and productivity progress.
Recently, I read some books on economics, science and technology, and history, and consulted some relevant experts, and conducted some discussions, and finally I formed a clear view - from a macro perspective, the only driving force for economic growth in the history of human civilization is the continuous accumulation and application of science and technology and new knowledge.
Every time the number of new technologies and inventions increases, human civilization will be sublimated, and productivity and material will be improved to a greater extent. There is no other way, without invention and knowledge, and there is simply no way for mankind to increase productivity by a hundredfold, thousand, thousand, or even more.
In the absence of the development of science and technology, one labor force is a labor force, and even excessive exploitation will not create the output value of three labor forces. However, scientific and technological innovation is a variable, and human beings continue to break through themselves, and the labor productivity of an individual with advanced productivity can exceed 10,000 times that of a hundred years ago.
In other words, all kinds of distributive doctrines are floating clouds in the history of human development as a whole. In the future, human beings should produce 100,000 times, millions of times, 10 million times, 100 times, 100 times, 100 million times. Only by relying on the continuous exponential development of productive forces that human production efficiency can truly reach great enrichment, will we break through narrowness.
In the case of limited resources, you may hold a grudge for a lifetime for a few buckets of rice and a few bags of grain. But...... Will you hold a grudge against someone for the rest of your life for the sake of a contradiction of 1 yuan or 20 yuan, and you will always regard it as a deep feud in the sea of blood? No! It is simply because your value and because of the factors of science and technology have increased by a hundred times and a thousand times compared with the past. Dozens of dollars are not worth remembering for a lifetime.
From the ancient times of stone tools and sticks hunting. In ancient times, when metal utensils, textile construction, farming, writing, and so on were invented, there was no doubt that the production capacity of human beings had increased at least tenfold. Later, after the Industrial Revolution, the speed of human knowledge accumulation, popularization and new technology was invented dozens of times faster than that of the classical era, and the production efficiency of one field after another was also greatly improved because of these new knowledge and new inventions. It can be said that in the 19th century, the output of human beings in one year has reached the output of decades in the classical era. In the 20th century, the emergence of more heavyweight technologies such as electricity, semiconductors, the Internet, and nuclear power made new technologies and new knowledge emerge at a faster rate. If we compare it with ancient times, the amount of new knowledge that we appear in a day is much greater than the amount of new knowledge discovered in a year in ancient times!
In modern society, different countries are divided into developing countries and developed countries. Developing countries are poor countries, and developed countries are rich countries. Developing countries are similar, with insufficient resource development, underdeveloped markets, backward educational resources, and an overall backward level of technology and technology.
In developed countries, some of them are lucky, for example, the territory is rich in resources, and the population is relatively small, so it is natural to be rich. Or, it is strategically located as an important international transportation hub, for example, in countries like Singapore. These developed countries with resource or geographical advantages are not representative.
The more successful developed countries are more likely to benefit from the improvement of the level of science and technology, learning the technology of advanced countries at the beginning, and then becoming a big country in technological innovation themselves, and new knowledge and inventions are constantly emerging, and they naturally become developed countries.
After World War II, the economy of all mankind ushered in a relatively good stage of development, and the economy developed at a rapid pace, faster than hundreds of years ago. In particular, in the second half of the 20th century, many developing countries and regions even broke through the bottleneck and became developed countries. In the past, it was already rare for a developed country to emerge in a hundred years.
Moreover, as a result of free trade and the international division of labor, new developing countries have emerged one after another with high economic growth. In the past, it was Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, now it is China, some countries in Southeast Asia, and so on.
Developing countries are growing rapidly, and many people have summed up some experiences such as cheap land, cheap resources, and demographic dividends. In fact, these advantages may be useful to a certain extent, but the most important point for the rapid economic take-off of developing countries is the learning and acceptance of new knowledge and technology.
Whether incompetence is in developing or developed countries, the reason for economic growth depends more on the improvement of the level of science and technology. Because the developed countries have abundant knowledge and technology, they can only gain momentum for development if there is an unprecedented explosion of new knowledge and technology.
Developing countries, on the other hand, will be able to gain great improvement by accepting and learning from the old knowledge accumulated by mankind in the past. Therefore, in the process of absorption and learning, the speed of economic development and the improvement of production efficiency far exceed the level of developed countries. Developing countries that want to become developed countries basically need to get rid of mere learning and absorption and follow the past development experience of developed countries. Rather, it is necessary to become the source of innovation for new industries and technologies. In other words, it is not enough to learn from the experience of the past, and it is necessary to innovate and feed back the scientific and technological civilization of mankind in order to become a new developed country that has been achieved by the accumulation of productive forces.
Scientific and technological innovation is important for the future of mankind, but in general, human investment in science and technology is still insufficient.
At present, science and technology and productivity are limited, and human beings still survive in a small ecological environment dominated by the earth. Because the earth is too small, resources are limited, and the uneven distribution and uneven distribution of resources on the earth has led to various fierce conflicts and even wars. However, if human productivity is further improved, more material and technical conditions can be sent to space to develop materials on more distant planets, then such a small amount of materials on the earth will become floating clouds. Then the earth may also be more peaceful than it is now, and there will be fewer conflicts of all kinds.
Overall, the world spends just over $1 trillion a year on innovation, accounting for a very low 2% of humanity's GDP. Even the vast majority of countries invest less than 1 percent of their GDP in scientific and technological innovation! Even some relatively developed countries that attach importance to scientific and technological innovation, such as the United States, invest $300 billion in scientific and technological innovation a year, accounting for about 30 percent of the world's total investment in scientific and technological innovation, accounting for about 4 percent of the United States' GDP! Other countries have even lower investment in new technologies and new knowledge. From the perspective of promoting the overall development of mankind, the global investment in science and technology is still too low.
However, at the enterprise level, especially technology and high-tech enterprises, even if they sell dog meat on the head of a sheep, they have to invest 1% of their revenue in research and development a year. It's not unusual for a slightly more decent technology company to have R&D costs accounting for 5% of revenue a year. It's not surprising that some enterprising tech companies, perhaps more than 10%, 20% or more, are invested in R&D. In the United States, for example, the vast majority of investment in scientific and technological research and development, mainly by high-tech companies, and government investment, does not account for the lion's share.
In a sense, the economic growth and technological innovation of all mankind in modern society are mainly driven by high-tech companies, especially companies in the semiconductor, Internet, electronics and other industries, which account for a large proportion of investment. Therefore, this field is also the industry with the largest number of technical invention patent submissions in the world.
And our new venture electronics group, even in the high-tech industry, is also a pioneer and leader in technological innovation!
Last year, our new venture electronics group invested more than $15 billion in research and development. In the world, it is in a leading position. The number of invention patents applied for was 316,000, and the number of valid patents approved reached 94,700. At the same time, the total number of outstanding patents held by us exceeded 400,000. Whether it is the number of new technology and invention patents we have applied for, or the total number of patents we hold, we have been the No. 1 technology company in the world for more than 5 consecutive years. In terms of R&D investment, we are also the first ......"