Chapter 891: The second item of the schedule

Sargent McCormick listened very carefully to Tan Zhenhua's plan and the description of the function of that new drug.
Then he joined without hesitation.
For him, this is a small adventure with a lot of opportunities. Chicago was originally one of the most important biomedical technology centers in the United States, the famous "Abbott Laboratories" and the largest pharmaceutical company "Takeda Pharmaceutical" in the country. The U.S. headquarters is located there, so the Chicago Consortium originally invested in this industry through complicated capital relationships, which is regarded as an emerging industry in all its investment activities.
Therefore, Sargent is not too unfamiliar with this industry. Life and health have always been a hot investment direction in the capital market, and he is also very optimistic about his investment direction.
Moreover, at the national policy level of the United States, it also attaches great importance to fostering this industry. The most typical representatives are the "Bay-Door Act" and the "Stevenson-Weidler Science and Technology Reform Act" promulgated in 1980, as well as just this year. A series of laws and regulations such as the "Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Compensation Act" have been passed. These bills have fully encouraged the development of this industry and are protecting intellectual property rights, promoting the market transformation of research results, encouraging the development of new drugs and saving generic drugs in medical expenses. A balance was struck between.
These have greatly promoted the development of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry and also contributed to the birth of a number of entrepreneurial companies in this industry.
After Tan Zhenhua introduced the "side effects" of this new drug that was destined to attract the attention of men all over the world, with his extraordinary commercial sensitivity, Sargent believed that the invitation from Eric was an opening for him. A gate to the gold mine!
Therefore, he immediately volunteered to undertake the investigation and screening of target pharmaceutical companies.
Anyway, he just graduated just had a lot of free time, and it also happened to help Tan Zhenhua free himself from such tedious business work to implement the second item in his schedule.
This work actually started running before his final exam, and the company that helped him run this project was Heidrick & Struggles International Consulting Co., Ltd., which had already had an unsuccessful cooperation experience with him.
Yes, classmates, you guessed right. Master Tan Er is going to dig people with his checkbook again. This time, the target of the digging is the famous Kodak Company, and the target is Steven Cezanne.
If he was not of Chinese descent and could make the second young master tricky, he naturally couldn't be an ordinary person. Obviously, this Steve Cezanne must have a remarkable achievement.
In fact, Tan Er didn't remember this name very much, but he remembered one thing very clearly. Kodak was the true inventor of the digital camera.
So the first task he gave Heidrick & Struggle was to find the specific inventor of this digital camera.
Heidrick & Struggle finally did not lose the chain this time, perhaps because the failure of the first cooperation made them feel lost. This time they sent the top staff and quickly provided Tan Zhenhua with a detailed information.
"Steven Cezanne, born in 1950, graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1973, and entered Kodak's Rochester Laboratory in New York in the same year. The first research project he took over was to use Bell Labs' new The charge-coupled device was researching the feasibility of making a "handheld electronic camera". He apparently successfully completed the task. In October 1975, he and two of his colleagues successfully captured a child with a device in the laboratory. A black-and-white image of a puppy. The charge-coupled device they used is now called a CCD sensor, and the storage medium they used was an audio cassette."
"Then what's the situation now?" Tan Zhenhua listened to the explanation from the senior manager Ms. Rowling, who was sent by Heidrick & Struggle to take charge of the case, while looking at the information in hand.
"According to our investigation, Kodak is obviously not very interested in this 3.85 kg device that can only take black and white photos. They only allocated a small amount of funds to continue research in this area, but even so , Mr. Steve Cezanne has achieved a lot of results. So far, Kodak has accumulated more than 1,000 patents in this direction, and in the late 1970s, some of the most important patents were granted to This is the source of technology for Sony’s "Mavica" digital camera in 1981.
Tan Zhenhua nodded and closed this document. Some of the contents in it he knew, and some he did not understand in detail. However, based on the information obtained today, he came to the conclusion: To develop a usable digital The camera, then, is obviously indispensable to obtain Kodak’s patent authorization, and considering that there is no right person ready to perform this project, the best solution is to simply combine Steve Cezanne himself with his little The scientific research team dug up together.
"Then Ms. Rowling, what do you think is the chance of success if we invite Mr. Cezanne?"
"Mr. Eric, I think the probability of success this time is very high, or that I have sufficient confidence to complete this commission."
"Oh?" Tan Zhenhua couldn't help but raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why?"
"Because according to our investigation, Mr. Cezanne is not doing very well now. The research he is engaged in has not been taken seriously by Kodak, or it is a very marginal project within Kodak. His current personal annual salary Yes... well, I found it, about $60,000."
"That's it, I understand."
Ms. Rowling’s answer reminded Tan Zhenhua that in his previous life, this well-known company with a long history officially declared bankruptcy in 2013. At that time, it caused a lot of domestic sorrows. There are even more articles analyzing the reasons, but the most mainstream opinion is Very consistent-Kodak, which once occupied 70% of the global film market, did not seize the opportunity in the process of transforming into the digital imaging field. As a result, it was chased by a group of Japanese manufacturers, and finally had to die with the demise of the film market. Exit.
However, after the rebirth, Tan Zhenhua, who was tossed in the capital market, has a broader vision at this moment. He believes that this actually reflects from another aspect that after the United States has gradually implemented industrial financialization, the manufacturing industry, especially the profitability The competitiveness of high manufacturing industries in the entire international market continues to decline.
Of course, this is a digression. Tan Zhenhua is currently most concerned about whether he can successfully dig the wall from Kodak.
"In fact, we have already had a secret private communication with Mr. Cézanne." Ms. Rowling's face was filled with a confident smile: "According to the judgment of my years of work experience, Mr. Cézanne is obviously very impressed with the conditions we put forward. Interest and serious weighing is in progress. He even hopes to make a very important suggestion to you through us, that is, whose client he does not know yet is."
"Huh?"
"He said that according to his view, Kodak did not pay particular attention to the patents obtained in the field of digital imaging. In fact, they are more concerned about technological innovations in film. So when you go to negotiate with Kodak about the licensing of these patents, maybe not There will not be much resistance. In fact, Kodak has sold these patents more than once. Many companies in the country have purchased these patents, but he specifically reminds you that if you really want to invest in this project, then It is necessary to reach an agreement with Bell Laboratories on the licensing of CCD technology patents."