We are all reborn, who wants to be the richest man?

The circle of top scientists is very small, and the predicament of Bell Labs quickly spread throughout the academic circle, and Luo Nianzhong was the first to know about it.

"Bell Labs?" Luo Nianzhong's tone was full of mixed emotions, including excitement, disdain, regret and pride.

The excitement is because the Luo family will have the opportunity to completely take over this palace of scientific research. With 11 Nobel Prize winners, 16 winners of the National Highest Science and Technology Award, and four Turing Award winners, what a great scientific research institution this is.

As for the disdain, it is directed at those short-sighted people on Wall Street. Since the split of AT&T, the company has been completely controlled by Wall Street.

Far-sighted managers could see that splitting up AT&T would do more harm than good in the long run, but the profit-driven bankers and professional managers didn't care.

These people were unwilling to wait for the researchers at Bell Labs to conduct slow experiments and trial and error, and wanted them to shift their research and development goals to projects that could see the future at a glance.

This led to the second split. AT&T, which had already been split once, is now splitting for the second time. Equipment manufacturing will be separated into Lucent, and Bell Labs will belong to Lucent.

During the first split, the Far Eastern Group acquired two communications giants, Bell Atlantic and Bell Southern. Although its shares have been diluted over the years, it is still the single largest shareholder of the two companies and has a very strong say.

In this second split ahead of schedule, Bell Labs became the target.

Speaking of it, the decline of Bell Labs to this point is not unrelated to Luo Nianzhong. It was the rise of the Far East Laboratory that made Wall Street feel that the researchers at Bell Labs had outdated research and development concepts. They only cared about money, so they cut the funding for Bell Labs and made these researchers focus on money.

It can only be said that those who work in finance only see the surface and fail to understand the essence of the Far East Laboratory.

In essence, the Far East Laboratory is the same as Bell Labs, focusing on R&D freedom.

Although Far East Laboratory has produced many revolutionary products, that was the direction given by Luo Nianzhong.

Scholars have always said that the Far East Laboratory is a continuation of the Bell model, but professional managers do not see it that way. They only see that the products developed by the Far East Laboratory have brought unimaginable benefits to the Far East.

However, when it comes to excitement, no one is more excited than Erickson, the CTO of Far East Group and director of Far East Laboratory.

He first entered the workplace at Bell Labs, and later moved to many places before finally settling down in the Far East Group.

He knew the heritage and strength of Bell Labs better than anyone else. Now that he had an opportunity to acquire his former employer, his feelings were beyond words.

"For us, there is no other laboratory in the world that fits us as well as Bell Labs. It can be said that except for the name, we are seamlessly connected."

Luo Nianzhong understood what Erickson meant, because the management structures of the two laboratories were almost identical and there was nothing that needed to be integrated.

The first is culture, which is also the foundation. Many years later, this is what many large companies care about very much, but now no one can see it clearly.

For example, if a researcher at the Far East Laboratory did not produce any research results in two years, other companies would have fired him long ago, but it is different at the Far East Laboratory.

No one cares about you and no one urges you.

However, it does not mean leaving it alone, but there are requirements.

The first is that you have a research direction. As long as you have a direction, it doesn’t matter whether there are results or not.

Of course it doesn’t matter if you don’t have a direction. The laboratory will assign you tasks, such as project groups that require personnel, etc.

There will be many choices, as long as you choose what you want to do, the work is very broad.

Another thing is the environment. There are many kinds of environments. The first one is definitely money, that is, research and development funds.

Does Far East Group have money? This question does not need to be discussed. Even Far East Laboratory itself has made a lot of money from patent fees.

Take last year for example, the Far East Laboratory's R&D funding reached $57 billion. At its peak, Bell Labs' maximum R&D funding was only $ billion.

Such investment means that researchers don't have to worry about R&D funds at all, and fund approval, material purchase, business trip reimbursement, etc. are all very fast.

The purchase of some large and expensive experimental equipment is not included in the R&D funds. The report may be submitted in the morning and the purchasing department may set off in the afternoon.

There is also the issue of personnel. What level of personnel are being recruited by the Far East Laboratory now? Basically, they all start with a PhD, and they also have to be experts in a certain profession.

When these people work together, they basically have a lot of common topics, or the cooperation is very smooth.

One can imagine the sparks that can be created when these geniuses work and communicate together. Sometimes a simple conversation may lead to inspiration and thus overcome technical difficulties.

The last point is that the Far East Laboratory encourages these scientific researchers to work in universities, combining theory with practice, which can also make talents from all over the world naturally feel favorable towards the Far East Laboratory.

The industry leaders train top talents, and these talents are the best reserve blood of Far East Laboratory.

In addition to humanities and environment, another point is management.

What Luo Nianzhong has always insisted on in the Far East Laboratory is professional talent management.

Whether it is Hong Kong Island or the Far East Laboratory branches in various places, the top leaders are all experts in the field of scientific research.

In fact, this has been criticized by some scientific researchers in the Far East Laboratory for a long time, because those who can be managers are all masters in some fields, but these people don’t want to be managers at all.

Because as managers, responsibilities outweigh rights, which will delay their research time.

These people all want to leave their names in history, and no one is willing to do these things, even for an extra salary.

Therefore, many scientific masters who became managers expressed their dissatisfaction with this and reported it to Erickson many times, but Luo Nianzhong simply ignored it.

Because he knows very well that if the managers are those who do not understand technology, they will listen to a report for a long time and cannot distinguish between good and bad. This is a cancer.

The current model is the foundation for the rapid development and continuous innovation of the Far East Laboratory. Coincidentally, this operating model is almost identical to that of Bell Labs.

That's why Erickson said the two labs can be seamlessly connected.

"You take charge of this matter and invite the other party to visit Hong Kong Island. I can meet him if I have time."

The Telephone and Telegraph Company didn't care about Bell, but Luo Nianzhong was very willing to accept Bell's assets.