Rebirth of a Top Student's Handbook

After the mother and daughter comforted each other, Zhou Min took a plane back to school the next day.

During the four days Zhou Min was away, a lot happened at the school.

The most discussed topic is that Zhongchuang Intellectual Property Company suddenly changed its cooperation method and will no longer provide patent subsidies.

Many of those who withdrew from the cooperation with Zhou Min's company and failed to reach a cooperation agreement with Zhongchuang Intellectual Property Company in time have returned.

Huachuang Intellectual Property Company, having received numerous high-quality research projects from various universities and laboratories, no longer lacks such simplistic inventions and designs.

Therefore, many people's invention projects have not passed the initial review of Huachuang Intellectual Property Company's patent consultants. If they want to cooperate, they can only be left in the database, waiting for some patent engineer who has no work to do to suddenly decide to look at it in the database.

Many of these people were dissatisfied with Zhou Min's company's arrangement, and they posted about it on the campus forum.

However, instead of the condemnation they expected against Zhou Min and Huachuang Intellectual Property Company, they received endless ridicule.

Unable to withstand the pressure of public opinion, the group eventually deleted all of these posts.

Although they deleted their posts, the incident still sparked heated discussions at the school.

Most people start intellectual property companies amidst ridicule, engaging in malicious competition that ultimately backfires.

A small minority of people support this kind of industry competition, believing that only in this way can a single dominant player and industry monopoly be avoided, and the interests of industry practitioners be protected.

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There were many different opinions on the forum, but none of that mattered to Zhou Min at the moment.

Zhou Min's attention was entirely focused on the document in her hand.

"Which laboratories have reached cooperation agreements with them so far?"

As Zhou Min flipped through the thick stack of documents in her hand, she asked with a serious expression.

Zhongchuang Intellectual Property Company has changed its strategy.

Previously, Zhongchuang Intellectual Property Company used patent subsidies to squeeze out Huachuang Intellectual Property Company's patent commissioning market.

Now they've upgraded their approach; they're directly contacting major laboratories and research institutions at universities, investing money and sponsoring their research funding.

The only requirement for the cooperation is that these laboratories and research institutions, after producing research results, will give priority to cooperating with Zhongchuang Intellectual Property Company.

"Most of them are still in negotiations, but according to inside information, the laboratories they have contacted are basically very interested in cooperating." Gu Chaoyang's expression was also very serious.

"How can they be so rich?" Zhou Min muttered to herself.

Although I haven't finished reviewing all the materials I have, it's clear from the parts I have reviewed that Zhongchuang Intellectual Property Company has great ambitions. Their target is the laboratories of all the top universities in the country and the top research institutions in China.

If this collaboration is finalized, it basically means that Zhou Min's company will no longer be able to secure those top-tier research projects.

Zhou Min's envisioned patent platform has become nothing more than a joke.

Zhou Min suddenly felt very frustrated.

My intentions were good, and I worked very hard, but I just fell short, just fell short...

Seeing Zhou Min's dejected look, Gu Chaoyang quickly comforted her, "Hey! Actually, not all labs agree to cooperate. We still have a chance."

Gu Chaoyang has also experienced many ups and downs, so although the current situation is critical, Gu Chaoyang is not as pessimistic as Zhou Min.

Although most of the time, Zhou Min gives people a sense of maturity and composure beyond her years.

But those who know her actual age still can't help but be more forgiving towards her.

After all, she was about the same age as Gu Chaoyang's daughter.

If her daughter had encountered something like this, she probably would have quit long ago.

"Don't try to comfort me. How could anyone disagree with this collaboration? It's sponsoring research funding!!"

Although Zhou Min is not a scientific researcher, she frequently visits various laboratories and the most common thing she hears is that there is insufficient funding.

Although many laboratories receive government funding every year, scientific research is very expensive, and often the amount of funding is insufficient.

Those lab directors who didn't receive government funding fared even worse. Many of them had to socialize, pull strings, and solicit sponsorships in order to complete their lab's research projects.

In this situation, if someone is willing to sponsor them for free in the long term, only asking to be given priority to collaborate with them after they produce research results, probably only a fool would disagree!

"It's true! According to reliable sources, your school's Computer Science Research Institute directly rejected their cooperation request." Seeing that Zhou Min still didn't believe him, Gu Chaoyang had no choice but to release this information.

"what?"

There really are fools!

Zhou Min was stunned for a moment before realizing who Manager Gu was talking about.

"Oh, you mean Teacher Gong! Teacher Gong doesn't lack money!"

Professor Gong's laboratory is a national key laboratory, and the projects he studies in the laboratory are all national key projects.

This is also why students like Zhou Min were so eager to get into Professor Gong's laboratory.

It is precisely because of the importance of Professor Gong's laboratory research projects that his laboratory can bypass the university and directly obtain research funding from the Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Science and Technology.

Furthermore, with the rapid development of the internet, various industries are becoming increasingly reliant on computers.

Therefore, Professor Gong's laboratory receives substantial corporate funding every year.

In this situation, Teacher Gong really doesn't need to agree to this cooperation.

"Regardless of whether we are short of money or not, at this time, his ability to directly refuse cooperation with Zhongchuang Intellectual Property Company is beneficial to us."

"Moreover, after he refused, several other laboratories also refused to cooperate with Zhongchuang Intellectual Property."

“I did some research, and these labs all have some connection with Professor Gong from your college.”

"I suspect your teacher helped us out behind the scenes. If you have time today, you should go and thank them."

Because Zhou Min is quite young, Gu Chaoyang often acts as both an employee and a teacher, frequently offering her guidance.