Chapter 405 [The first batch of scientific research funding projects]
"Please come in!"
Lu Ming was thinking about shorting Zhonggai stocks. When he heard a knock on the door, he stopped thinking and looked towards the office door. The person who came in was his girlfriend Xiao Anan. Lu Ming smiled and said: "How is the work at the foundation?
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An Yirou came to sit next to him and put the briefcase she brought on her lap, "You, the chairman of the foundation, are not here, and I, the assistant to the chairman, are there to patrol the sky." Lou Yiyun
The secretary-general has to report to me on the foundation’s work.”
After saying that, Xiao Anan smiled.
Lu Ming concurrently serves as the chairman of the Science and People's Livelihood Foundation, but he rarely goes there. After An Yirou returned to China, she served as assistant to the chairman even less frequently.
Doing everything by yourself is far less than knowing people and assigning them well. As the ultimate big wave SS, using the right people is more important than doing 10,000 things yourself. Lou Yiyun and other core members of the foundation are all people he personally selected. These people
If things don't get done well, it means the person at the helm has hired the wrong person.
"Look at how proud you are, you can be proud but don't get carried away!" Lu Ming leaned back on the sofa comfortably, "Tell me, what's going on?"
An Yirou came here specifically to report the foundation's work to him, and immediately took out a document from her briefcase and handed it to him, and said: "The foundation's first batch of basic scientific research funding plans has been confirmed, a total of 17 projects.
43 academic leaders in basic branch science fields.”
Lu Ming put down his crossed legs, took the document bag handed over by An Yirou, and took out the materials to take a rough look at them.
Most of the first batch of funding projects approved by the foundation are concentrated in the field of basic materials, especially new materials. There is no way, materials are the country's shortcomings, so the foundation naturally has a focus.
Such as construction and application research of new nanometal materials, standardized preparation of precious metal nanoparticles, structural formation and evolution of hollow shell nanometals, flexible stretchable nanocircuit and devices, development of new flexible hydrogen sensors, materials for energy conversion and storage
Synthesis etc…
There are also nanostructures and their role in nano-optics and power conversion, artificial photosynthesis, nanowire batteries, nanowire photonics, nanowire thermoelectrics, carbon nanotube nanofluids, etc...
An Yirou said methodically: "The foundation's highest funding for these 43 scientists is 295 million yuan per year, and the lowest one has 27 million yuan."
Different fields have different funding needs, but the horizontal comparison is basically top-level. In addition, the higher the academic achievement of a scientist, the higher the funding the foundation will allocate to him.
In the most cutting-edge academic research fields, there is no so-called egalitarianism. It means giving the most outstanding experts the most scientific research resources to conquer the most cutting-edge positions.
"According to the foundation's follow-up survey report, we anchor our funding on people, and the importance that these scientists' universities or institutions attach to them has skyrocketed..."
While An Yirou was talking, she saw the scientists' information on the page that Lu Ming was reading and gave an example: "For example, the professor Sun Guangmiao you see now, the basic research he is engaged in is difficult to realize in the short term.
His university is more inclined to award projects that can produce successful scientific research results within two to three years, and preferably also realize successful innovative products."
Upon hearing this, Lu Ming chuckled and said: "As someone who doesn't understand scientific research technology, I know that it is unrealistic and utilitarian to set a specific time to produce results in scientific research."
An Yirou crossed her hands and said, "So Professor Sun can't get scientific research funding. He himself is not good at wine table culture. He is a boring scholar. He is really at a disadvantage in terms of fighting for scientific research resources. The foundation gave him 6,300 per year."
It is said that after his university found out about the funding amount of 10,000 yuan, it immediately paid great attention to him, and many school leaders went to ask for help.”
When Lu Ming heard this, he sighed softly, didn't say anything more, and continued to look through the materials.
So real!
Such examples have happened to more than a dozen other scholars who have received funding. They used to be indifferent to him, but now the respect index of their institutions for him has soared.
Anchoring the main scientific research resources, that is, funds, on specific people will indeed achieve immediate results.
First of all, it is anchored to the academic leader in the field. This funding must be used for research in this field. At the same time, the control power of this funding is given to this scientist, and the respect and attention he receives has also increased.
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Because the foundation stipulates that if the scientist leaves the university or institution where he is working, the funds that support him will not stay, but will follow the scientist. When he goes to the next institution or university, the funds will go here.
university or institution.
If the university or institution you work for does not respect others and makes them feel wronged, once they leave, their money will be gone. It is a real loss of both people and money.
Moreover, the foundation also gave them the confidence to leave. The funds will always follow the people, and the knowledge is in their stomachs. They can continue to do their own research wherever they go.
Such a mechanism also forces those universities or institutions to pay attention and respect talents. Other universities or institutions are all looking at the scholars who receive funds from foundations, and they are eager to make them unhappy so that they can poach them away.
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"What is this material?" After Lu Ming read it, he found that there was another document. An Yirou glanced at it and explained: "This is a funding project for fifteen unique research topics approved by the foundation."
Lu Ming immediately opened the list, read for a while and couldn't help but smile: "It's really unique."
The first approved project is very unique: Which is more real, reality or dreams?
When everyone dreams, they feel that the dream is such a real experience that when they encounter a certain scene in life, they feel like they have seen it before. It may have been encountered in the dream, and some people can even get something from the dream.
Predictably and accurately "see" what will happen in the future.
As humans progress in the field of science, they learn more about the rules of the world they live in. From three-dimensional space to multi-dimensional space to parallel worlds, these theories emerge. Dreams may be a reflection of people's life in another space. The universe
Perhaps it is really a space composed of a quadratic combination of multiple dimensions, and "reality" is just one of the dimensional spaces.
"It's really interesting."
Lu Ming read the outline of this project with great interest, and the foundation approved a funding of 3.5 million yuan for this project.
The second approved research project: What exactly is thought?
Why do people have thoughts? Is it controlled by the brain? The brain controls the body. Hundreds of billions of brain cells have such a clear division of labor, and the brain is not highly developed, but it can complete such complex instructions and learning and memory capabilities, and everyone has it.
Unique thoughts…
Funding of 8 million yuan was approved for this project.
Later, there are also some weird topics including "Do people have souls?", "What happens when people are about to die?", "Who comes first, man or woman?", etc., which make people feel that they are not doing their job properly.
Lu Ming put down the materials and nodded and said: "These questions are good and interesting, and the 'waste' of these funds is very necessary."
An Yirou said with a smile: "The evaluation of the project approval minutes believes that these fifteen special project topics are not expected to produce specific results. Of course, it is best to have results, but the most important thing is to stimulate people's curiosity about science.
