Zhang Chen really didn't care too much about Liu Bingcheng's careful thoughts.

Whether it is at home or abroad, whether it is charity or this kind of education fund, although the sponsor has a certain say in the use of money, the real leading power must be in the hands of the competent unit.

Just like more than ten years later, there are many wealthy people in China who line up to donate money to prestigious American schools, and they can't influence the specific flow of money, at most, the accounts of these schools are relatively open and transparent.

Zhang Chen of the Spark Scholar Award Program was originally only responsible for the bonus part, which was distributed on a per capita basis, and the accounts were extremely clear. The operating expenses of the plan are directly allocated by the Ministry of Finance to the Education Commission through the budget, which has nothing to do with Zhang Chen. In this case, as long as the judging committee can uphold the principle of impartiality in reviewing each candidate, Zhang Chen has nothing to worry about.

Huaxia Hotel.

"Oh, by the way, Biadi's investment has been done, 20 million yuan, 30% equity. I helped them make a 30 million RMB secured loan, and if I had waited a little longer, there might have been a better result. Shen Nanpeng ate the last piece of ham and wiped his mouth.

Zhang Chen took a sip of milk, "No need, so be it." By the way, they're still working on nickel-metal hydride batteries? What do they think about our proposal to buy a patent for a lithium polymer battery from Bell Labs?"

Shen Nanpeng muttered: "Wang Chuanfu seems to be not interested in lithium polymer batteries, they are now developing lithium batteries themselves, he is more optimistic about the iron-lithium technology that came out last year, and believes that iron-lithium technology is the future direction." ”

Zhang Chen asked the waiter to remove the plate, "Both are new technologies, however, I heard that some companies are more optimistic about lithium polymer batteries, thinking that the theoretical energy density is greater, although the requirements for power management are higher, but these are problems that can be solved through research and development, and the theoretical upper limit of energy density is a difficult hurdle that cannot be overcome." Of course, if Bell Labs asks too much, forget it. ”

Shen Nanpeng smiled: "The asking price of Bell Labs is not high, less than 100,000 US dollars. ”

Zhang Chen was a little puzzled: "Bell Labs is willing to license the patent so cheaply?"

Shen Nanpeng shrugged: "The price is indeed not high, but the transferee will give Bell a patent royalty of 3/1000 for every battery sold." ”

Zhang Chen thought for a while: "Even so, this is a good business." ”

Shen Nanpeng shook his head: "When Bell Labs came up with this technology, it was really popular, and more than a dozen companies bought Bell's technology license. But in the past six months, almost no manufacturers have asked Bell for quotations. ”

Zhang Chen frowned slightly: "Why?

In Zhang Chen's previous life, ATL, the boss of the battery industry, was also his customer, so Zhang Chen knew some inside stories of the battery industry, ATL was made by buying the patents of Bell Labs, which proves that Bell Labs' things do have considerable potential, how can they not be sold?

Shen Nanpeng smiled mysteriously: "A colleague of mine in Citi's legal department jumped to Sanyo to work as a patent lawyer, and he told me that in the first half of the year, he accompanied people from Sanyo's battery technology department to Bell Laboratories to talk about this patent. At that time, Sanyo spent a lot of money to buy the patent license, which is said to be as high as millions of dollars. As a result, within two months of buying it back, the patent was thrown in the trash. ”

Zhang Chenqi said: "Why?"

Shen Nanpeng sold Guanzi, "Because this technology just looks good, but it has no practicality." After Sanyo took it back, the battery produced according to the patent would bulge after charging and discharging less than ten times after packaging, and the production plan could not be adjusted. So I found Bell again, and guess what. ”

Shen Nanpeng looked at Zhang Chen, who was hung up his appetite, and grinned: "Bell's people told Sanyo that the problem of bulging is the drawback of this technology itself, and they can't solve it, and as far as they know, no one from the dozen or so companies they authorized can solve it." ”

Zhang Chen was dumbfounded: "Isn't this a pit man?"

Shen Nanpeng pouted: "It's a pit man, according to my friend, the boss of Sanyo Battery Division is about to blow up, and he almost beat that kid from Bell Labs." Later, this matter spread among Japanese and Korean battery manufacturers, so no one asked Bell to buy this technology anymore. ”

Zhang Chen pondered for a long time and slowly spoke: "If you want to buy this technology completely, how much will it cost?"

Shen Nanpeng smiled and said, "Completely buy?"

Zhang Chen nodded: "That's right, do you think it's possible for them to completely transfer this technology to us?"

Shen Nanpeng was puzzled: "It's meaningless, this technology has no practical value at all." Even if we buy this technology, almost everyone in the industry will hear this story now, and no one will ask us to do patent licensing again, and the cost will not be recovered. ”

Zhang Chen pursed his lips: "I always think that polymer lithium batteries are the future development direction, and there must be a way to make up for the shortcomings of Bell's technology, so let's go talk to the people in Bell Labs, and say that we want to buy it, and if the patent transfer price is within one million US dollars, we will buy it." ”

Shen Nanpeng was helpless: "Even if this technology is useless, if I go to them like this, they will ask for a high price." They must have thought that we already had a way to compensate for their technical shortcomings. ”

Zhang Chen smiled: "Didn't that colleague of your Citi deal with them before? You look for him and ask him to say to Bell like this, 'Huaxia has a local bag company, and it also wants to make lithium batteries, but it has no technology, and now I haven't heard about the disadvantages of your technology, I can help you sell him another copy of this technology.' If you want to make more money, anyway, now that the reputation of this technology in the industry has become stinky, it is better to completely transfer the patent rights to this Huaxia company for 500,000 dollars. When Bell heard the news, as long as he weighed it a little, he would definitely agree, after all, it was not easy for them to find the stunned young people in this industry. In another two or three years, maybe more advanced technology will come out, and then their technology will be even more worthless. Your friend can also ask Bell for a rebate of 50,000 US dollars, and Bell is a research-oriented unit, and he is very happy to give rebates, and he can get more, which is also his ability. When it was done, I gave him another $50,000 in commissions. ”

Shen Nanpeng was dumbfounded: "This, this... ”

Zhang Chen said with a smile: "There's no need to be surprised like this, it's just a little trick." ”

Shen Nanpeng shook his head and said: "I'm not surprised by your little skills, but surprised that a billionaire like you is a little trick to dig out hollow thoughts here in order to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars less, and the amount of your wealth appreciation in half an hour is more than this, right?"

Zhang Chen disagreed: "Value-added is value-added, why do you have to spend money that you can't spend, I'm not wronged." ”

Shen Nanpeng sighed: "No wonder others say that the faces of capitalists are ugly. ”

Zhang Chen said hehehe: "The comprador's face is no better." ”

(End of chapter)