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"How long can our project funds last?" Lao Gu turned around and asked the teacher in charge of fund supervision.

“From the current point of view, most projects are just starting up, so the funding is not large.

The verification of the ion evaporation principle has been completed, and the capital consumption is much smaller than expected. I think it may be because the ideas provided by Wang Xu are too clear, so many expected losses did not occur.

Based on this situation, we may be able to re-evaluate carefully, reduce the margin to the minimum, and leave some free funds for use at any time.

I made a rough estimate. Our existing funds were originally estimated to be able to support almost two months of research, but now we estimate that it can be extended appropriately.

The most optimistic estimate is that our funds should be available for three to four months.

For detailed time, I still need two days to do actuarial calculation. "The cadre responsible for fund supervision and budgeting was transferred from the ministry for support and is mainly responsible for the actuarial calculation and supervision of funds.

His initial evaluation was based on normal scientific research procedures, but when it came to this project, something seemed a little different.

Many projects appear to be going very smoothly on their schedules, especially those entering the experimental phase.

This smoothness was somewhat beyond imagination, which resulted in almost every project having a surplus of funds compared to expectations.

This shows that his assessment was too high, and he must re-evaluate the cost of the entire project based on the current progress.

Although the ministry did not provide much financial assistance, it still provided some other support as much as possible. From a policy perspective, it acquiesced in this model of cutting first and playing later. In terms of personnel, it seconded several elite soldiers in management and coordination. Support.

This actually shows that the attitude of the Ministry is very optimistic. The Ministry of Science and Technology has a terribly weak presence in this era. There is almost no technological innovation and everyone is catching up.

In the evaluation of scientific research achievements across China, it is almost the best achievement to reach the level of foreign countries in the 1980s.

Shuimu suddenly made several internationally leading achievements, so it would be strange if they weren't targeted by the higher-ups.

I guess the department is having a headache as this year's scientific and technological progress awards have been handed out. After all, Mizuki's achievements are too scary. Graphene, single crystal copper, highly sensitive signal detection circuits, high-fidelity signal amplification circuits, and proven growth methods, each of which is world-leading.

Although the two circuits are not well-known, they have been widely used in many confidential research projects such as radar, sonar, monitoring, remote sensing, etc. Their original designs and their variants add up to more than a dozen types.

The ideas of these two circuits can be said to have brightened China's eyes a lot. Achievements of this level could only be ranked at the bottom of last year's list of Mizuki scientific research achievements.

The implementation of two consecutive large-scale research projects, "Supercomputing" and "Growth Method" in Shuimu, makes it almost inevitable that the results will blow out in the foreseeable future. The "Supercomputing" project is actually the same as the "Growth Method" project, which was officially launched only after the year.

The slowness of the "supercomputing" project is actually normal. After all, the supercomputing project is essentially initiated from the bottom up, and both the student union and the Youth League Committee play an important role in it.

This kind of project mainly trains young teachers and students. The project leader is Professor Yan, who is also a relatively young professor, so the position of this project has become a pilot project to cultivate future backbones.

In this way, from the various application processes at the beginning to the specific ideals of each project, these young teachers are all completed independently, so the overall process is naturally not much faster.

They are all done in accordance with standard procedures. This formal thing is not just a waste of time. On the contrary, it is a tool for large organizations to improve efficiency.

Therefore, this kind of training will be all-round, not only for young teachers, but also for young Shuimu project management organizations.

There is no problem with Mizuki's decision-making, and he even thinks further than Wang Xu when he conceived it. This is not surprising. In the final analysis, Wang Xu is only sure of the direction of technology.

But how to implement it specifically, how to apply for projects, how to manage, how to coordinate, how to supervise, and how to accept acceptance all require experience. Scientific research management is not at all simpler than the management of large companies.

Mizuki is obviously aware of his own shortcomings, so he is consciously taking advantage of every opportunity to improve.

The "Growth Method" project is aimed at more mature professors and researchers who are at their peak. If they don't have enough talent, they can collaborate across departments and colleges. This is an investment in the present and focuses more on the improvement of real scientific research capabilities.

Although many detours can be bypassed with Wang Xu's guidance, countless related projects can make up for this shortcoming.

Using projects that Wang Xu is confident about can directly gain achievements and honors, and projects that he is not familiar with can truly train his team. This is the real reason why the scope of the growth method project has spread to such a large extent.

Several teachers were talking about funds and project progress, but Wang Xu was a little distracted. Yes, he also had to participate in a meeting of this level. The title of chief scientist of the project team was not for nothing.

"Classmate Wang Xu, do you have any suggestions on the sources of funds?" Several teachers have already spoken, and the sources of funds have also been provided from the ministry, to the city, to the district, and to all levels of the school. Everyone has matched it. Eventually we can gather more together and it is very possible to survive this year.

But in the end I asked Wang Xu. After all, this guy is known to have a lot of crooked ideas.

"Actually, we can also try some financial means." Wang Xu suddenly gave an unexpected answer.

"Using financial means to finance scientific research? You mean industry, academia and research?" Lao Gu seemed to have some inspiration, but he didn't fully understand it.

Wang Xu thought for a while, searched his memory bank, hesitated, and finally said:

“Industry-university-research, industry-university-research, industry-university-research, industry-university-research, may be too industry-focused, but I always feel that there is a missing leg here, and that is finance.

Using financial tools to conduct scientific research is nothing new overseas.

In foreign universities, a lot of scientific research is sponsored by companies. Everyone thinks that big companies donate money for scientific research. Our news often reports this, but this is not the case.

There are actually several misunderstandings here. The first one is that only companies that invest in scientific research will lose money.

These companies are all profit-making institutions. How can they really invest in loss-making transactions? Even if a single project seems to be losing money, it is likely to be profitable from an overall perspective. There are many ways to earn money in the future, and I believe teachers all know about it.

The second misunderstanding is that only companies invest in scientific research.

In fact, overseas, the financial industry may invest more in scientific research, and even if it is corporate investment, many financial institutions will participate in various types of financing.

Many financing methods can be used, but this requires a sound financial environment.

What’s more, China’s financial institutions need to jump out of their comfort zone, which may be difficult in a short time.

The third misunderstanding is that our enterprises have no strength and cannot afford to invest in scientific research.

In fact, no, many of our companies are indeed not as large as overseas companies, but the funds we invest in research and development are also not as large as those overseas. Now those companies have commissioned a lot of scientific research projects.

But those are often short-term projects. For ordinary universities, they still have a certain meaning. For universities like Shuimu, they are too far away from the cutting-edge of science and technology.

The projects of universities like Shuimu often do not have short-term benefits, so it is difficult to attract direct investment from enterprises, and they can only be carried out in the form of donations.

We still have some powerful companies, but they don’t know what to invest in or where the returns will be.

This is actually a matter of ideological concepts, and it also needs to be gradually formed with some examples to be convincing.

But haven’t we created a technology pool that allows companies to invest in scientific research by redeeming their qualifications? If they don’t know what to invest in, then they can invest in the overall technology pool. "

Directly give them exchange points for their technology pool to form a virtual currency, allowing them to gain access to the technology pool through investment. This virtual currency can even allow transfers and transactions between enterprises. Isn't this Financial method? "

Wang Xu's explanation made several leaders feel a little confused, but there seemed to be nothing wrong with it. There seemed to be risks involved, and it felt like it was very confusing.

"Let's think about this proposal when we go back. To be honest, I don't know what the consequences of this will be." Lao Gu thought for a long time. The benefits of this thing are obvious, but to open up a new currency so openly, Is it really good?

They almost didn't know how to express their opinions, so they simply recorded the proposal and planned to think about it after the meeting.

This is how virtual currencies were played in later generations. In the 1990s when the entire financial industry was still ignorant, it was really too out of line.

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