"Of course, we are collaborators." Matsk said with a sneer. "As collaborators, all institutions can obtain the right to use the technology patents obtained in this project, and only need to pay a certain amount of patent usage fee. In this way, your country does not need to participate in the work of other subsystems, and you can also obtain these technologies."

"Mr. Chairman means that we can obtain these technologies without discrimination?" Feng Xiaochen asked.

"Of course it's non-discriminatory." Matsk said confidently.

“We are free to use them, as long as we pay the patent fee as required?”

“Yes, total freedom.”

“Is these technologies included in international tenders?”

"this……"

"Does these technologies include secondary development to have technologies that form independent intellectual property rights?"

"I think there should be some differences..." Matsk could only break his promise and become fat.

The technology mentioned in commercial cooperation has many levels. The highest level is naturally to obtain independent intellectual property rights, which means that you can use this technology at will, whether it is participating in international competition or secondary development of the technology, and there will be no restrictions. The lower level is to only obtain limited use rights, such as only being used within a certain range and not exceeding this range. The most typical limit is that it can only be used in the country and cannot be used in the international market. The lower level even completely limits the autonomy of the introducer. The introducer must apply to the owner of the technology when using the technology. If the other party does not agree, the introducer cannot use this technology.

What Feng Xiaochen hopes is to form independent research and development capabilities for the entire system of deep-sea oil development through participating in the Captain Cook project, so that China can independently design and build offshore oil equipment in the future and participate in international market competition. If the power you get is only to use these patents and will be restricted by the original technology manufacturers when participating in international competition, then what is the difference between it and directly purchasing foreign equipment?

Matsk actually knew Feng Xiaochen's idea, but he could not agree to Feng Xiaochen's request. What Heinz and his friends were most worried about was that after the Chinese obtained this technology, they would grab their market internationally, so they tried every means to prevent the Chinese from participating in the research and development of core technologies. According to Heinz and his friends, the Chinese could not even use these patents. If they want to obtain these equipment, they could only buy them from companies such as Pumai. Of course, Matsk could not tell Feng Xiaochen this way, because this was too bullying. They agreed to cooperate in development, but they did not even use the technology developed by the partner. So what is the cooperation?

It took a lot of effort to convince Heinzl and others to agree to authorize relevant patents to China after the project is completed, but this authorization is strictly restricted. It would be fine for the Chinese to build several platforms and collect oil in their own waters. If they cross the border to sell, European companies will refuse to issue licenses and will never let the Chinese take away their market.

As expected, after hearing that every company can only participate in one aspect of research, Feng Xiaochen asked about patent authorization. Matsk could not beat it even if he wanted to be careless. After all, the two parties ultimately had to sign an agreement, and it was impossible not to write these things clearly in the agreement. Even if he could trick the Chinese people now, they would still find out in the end.

"We are interested in investing $500 million to participate in this project. Based on the investment of the entire project, $500 million is equivalent to 25% of the shares. Do we have the right to ask for participation in 25% of the research work?" Feng Xiaochen changed his perspective and said to Matsk.

It's indeed $500 million!

Matsk's heart pounded suddenly. Before that, he had just listened to the people who were passing the message that China had such an intention, but he could not completely believe it. Now that Feng Xiaochen said this number in person, the meaning is completely different. This means that as long as Matsk is willing to agree to Feng Xiaochen's conditions, 500 million US dollars can fall into his hands. Once he has this 500 million US dollars, he can fool more companies to join this project, and then this project will be almost certain.

With Matsk's original intention, he would agree to the conditions offered by Feng Xiaochen at all costs. Even if these conditions are harsh, what can it be? Matsk himself does not care whether the Chinese will steal the market of European companies. For him, developing the sixth generation drilling platform is the most important thing. He will receive great honors for this and his future prospects are bright.

However, the affairs of the committee are not the ones that he, as the chairman, have the final say. Heinzel, Kelvey and other members from the company are the real masters. These people will definitely not agree to the Chinese conditions, so what can Matsk say?

"Mr. Feng, what you learned may be a bit biased," said Matsk, "It is true that Captain Cook's project plans to raise $2 billion in funds. But the valuation of this project is not only calculated based on the amount of funds raised, but also takes into account the technical investment of various companies. You also know that, including Aker in Norway, GV in Sweden, Cardiff in the UK, and Pumai in Germany, all have a large number of core technologies in marine oil development. They will invest in their own technology, and these technologies need to be converted into equity."

"There is also a saying of technology investment?" Feng Xiaochen smiled and asked, "So, after adding these technical equity, what is the appraisal of the entire project? If we spend $500 million in funds, what proportion can we account for?"

"After adding technical equity, the project's valuation is about US$4 billion, and US$500 million can account for 12.5% ​​of the proportion." Matsk said. When he said this, his tone was a bit terrifying. Lieing is really a relatively difficult thing. If there is a way, Matsk is unwilling to do such a conscience-abiding thing.

Huang Ming, Chen Mo and others' faces were already a little blue, Leng Feiyun sneered. As for Wang Weilong and Yang Haifan, they met each other and then showed a relieved expression at the same time, which meant: Since that's the case, what else can I talk to this bastard? Let's just leave.

Feng Xiaochen is the calmest among all of them. At this point, he has already had some jokes. In Feng Xiaochen's eyes, Matsk and those members who did not show up, are just a bunch of ridiculous clowns. The Captain Cook project does not exist in Feng Xiaochen's previous life's memory. He has never verified why this life has happened. Maybe it was caused by his demonic wind that was incited by time traveling through butterflies.

Feng Xiaochen remembers what Europe would look like after entering the new century. Under the blow of the European debt crisis, Europe's industry and technology were almost completely defeated, and it could only be barely maintained by relying on the old capital of the past.

To put it simply, in the global smartphone market in 2018, the United States, South Korea and China have three sides, and European mobile phone brands cannot even enter the top 10 sales list.

Of course, you can say that Europeans may not be reluctant to play low-end products like mobile phones. Then we can give another example: On the list of the top 500 global supercomputers released in November 1999, the United States ranked first with 267 units, Japan ranked third with 58 units, Europe ranked second with 69 units, followed by France, France, 27 units, Britain, Sweden, 7 units, Netherlands, 6 units, Italy, and Switzerland, plus Denmark, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, etc., European countries have a total of 156 units. At that time, China only had one unit on the list.

On the list in June 2018, China ranked first in the world, with 124 units ranked second, Japan ranked third with 36 units, and 12 countries including Germany, Britain, France, and 12 countries in Europe, including Germany, Britain, France, have only 96 units, less than half of China.

It is said that the 21st century is the information age. In such a big Europe, the origin of the industrial revolution, it was left two streets by a developing country in the field of supercomputers. What qualifications are there to be there to show off?

Feng Xiaochen asked Matsk for talks and hoped to join the Captain Cook project. Although he had the idea of ​​learning from European technology accumulation, he was also helping Europeans to develop more advantageous industries. Feng Xiaochen fully believed that without China's participation, the result of Captain Cook project would inevitably become an unfinished project, and in the end everyone would not get anything. If China participated, the project would have a great chance of success. By then, China would naturally get benefits, and Europeans would also get benefits from it, which was a win-win result.

Of course, neither Matsk nor Heinzl nor others were time travelers. They might have felt the recession in Europe, but they would not have thought that they could recession so quickly and thoroughly. In their hearts, they also thought of the opportunity to contain China's development, so such absurd conditions were put forward in this cooperation.

"If this is the case, then what parts of the development work will Mr. Chairman take on by Chinese companies?" Feng Xiaochen continued to ask. Although he already knew that cooperation with Captain Cook's project could not achieve the expected results, he still needs to understand the other party's plans and see if there is any place to use. A pile of garbage is also valuable. Since it has arrived, it is okay to ask more questions.

Matsk said: "We originally considered asking Chinese companies to be responsible for the construction of semi-submersible platform superstructures. Now we know that Chinese companies also have some experience in the construction of fpso. We can consider asking you to participate in the development of fpso..., uh, I mean the construction task under development."
Chapter completed!