What family is Jobs?

In fact, as far as the contribution to human innovation is concerned, Academician Yuan Longping is by no means inferior to Jobs, but there is really no such person as Jobs in China business circles. Academician Wang Xuan is a pioneer of IT innovation in China, but his influence is mainly in the field of printing. Some commentators believe that China people can't be blamed for their lack of innovative genes and innovative ability, but China enterprises have weak innovative genes, insufficient innovative motivation and poor innovative ability. What Causes China Enterprises to Fall into Innovation Dilemma? This is probably due to the pursuit of enterprises in China and the institutional environment. What do China enterprises pursue? If small and medium-sized enterprises struggle to survive, it is understandable that most of them do everything to make money. Those large enterprises, especially some large high-tech enterprises, have the support of national policies and abundant funds, but they still have no pursuit of innovation, which really makes people sigh. The road of technological innovation is full of uncertainty. Even Steve Jobs can't guarantee the market effect of every innovation. However, Jobs believed that his goal was never to win business, but to create great products. He said: "My passion is to build a company that can be passed down from generation to generation. The people in this company are full of motivation to create great products. Everything else is secondary. Power comes from products, not profits. " If one day, some enterprises in China can proudly say that profit is not the first priority, but innovation is the first, then China is not far from the day when Jobs was born. As for the institutional factors, I think it is more necessary to look at them historically. The institutional arrangement most closely related to technological innovation and entrepreneurship is to protect the intellectual property rights of entrepreneurs who master technology. China enterprises often spend huge sums of money to buy foreign intellectual property rights, but domestic intellectual property rights are another matter. Especially at a certain stage in the past, the technological innovation of scientific and technological personnel has not been rewarded as it should be. In fact, what frightens science and technology entrepreneurs is a "theory" of "the dispute between entrepreneurs and scientists" which is widely spread in high-tech enterprises. The key point of this "theory" is that "entrepreneurs" who know management can expel "scientists" who don't know the market and build cars behind closed doors. It is a false proposition to distinguish between "entrepreneurs" and "scientists" in high-tech enterprises. In real high-tech enterprises, if there is any "home", there are only "entrepreneurs", such as CEO, CTO, COO, CFO, CIO and so on. But the division of labor is different. Of course, some people are proficient in technology, some are proficient in management, and some are both, but there is no distinction between "entrepreneurs" and "scientists". He is proficient in technology, management and artistic talent. Do Apple's "entrepreneur" Jobs and "scientist" Jobs often fight? The founders of high-tech companies in developed countries are mostly Jobs type, and now the founding teams or founders of high-tech enterprises in China are basically this type. Sometimes when an enterprise is old, or the founder is old, they may ask a professional manager to be the CEO, but the founder is still the boss and the CEO is responsible for them. For example, Gates of Microsoft stepped back and hired Ballman as CEO. In the early days of reform and opening up, there was a dispute between "scientists" and "entrepreneurs" in "high-tech enterprises" owned by the whole people, which was a phenomenon in a special stage of development. Looking back now, at that time, the construction of intellectual property system in China had just started, and the intellectual property rights of scientific research institutes and universities were not evaluated when they founded the company. In this way, the intellectual property rights of scientific and technological personnel as job inventions are used by enterprises for free, and their rights cannot be guaranteed. Although the state later promulgated a series of laws and regulations to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, the scientific and technological personnel in a weak position can do nothing if the people who hold the fate of the enterprise do not want to remedy such historical problems. I have great confidence in the improvement of China's innovation system environment. Over the years, many innovative teams or innovators (including returnees) have asked me for advice when starting a business. I always tell them that China's intellectual property laws and regulations are getting more and more perfect. You can start a business with confidence, but the most important thing is to learn to use institutional arrangements to legally safeguard the right to speak and control. The intellectual entrepreneurs, represented by Ding Lei and Ma, who have risen in the Internet era, have relatively perfect enterprise property rights system arrangements, and the conflicts or consumption of property rights after the development of enterprises are much less. Therefore, they can lead enterprise innovation with more peace of mind and dedication. (The author is an academician of China Academy of Engineering)