Charles hung up the phone with William and immediately began to contact the top ten universities in the UK.
As an old prince who has been active in the UK for many years, Charles has very strong connections in the country, and the heads of several top comprehensive universities in the UK have friendships with him.
What’s interesting is that Britain is, after all, an old imperialist country. Although the royal family no longer controls political rights, they still control honorary rights. For the country’s elite, the greatest honor is given by the royal family, so they and the royal family The relationship is very close, and it also gives the royal family a lot of face.
Charles communicated one by one, and every word was the same. He first said hello to each other, and then asked the other party whether he was interested in cooperating with Makino Technology.
Under normal circumstances, when Charles talks about Makino Technology, the other party expresses strong interest. This is not only because he wants to sell Charles a face, but also because Makino Technology is indeed too well-known around the world.
After confirming the other party's interest, Charles will further elaborate on the specific details of the cooperation:
Makino Technology’s request is that these colleges can provide a certain number of exchange students to China every year. These places should be as large as possible and cover as many subjects as possible;
In return, Makino Technology provides a certain number of direct employment positions for these schools, such as Cambridge. If Li Mu gives Cambridge 20 direct employment positions every year, then 20 people will be recruited from Cambridge every year.
Charles's first contact was Alec Browers, the president of Cambridge University.
Alec Browers is a very legendary figure. He is an Australian. He studied electrical engineering at Cambridge and then joined IBM. After serving in IBM for nearly twenty years, he served as IBM's chief scientist. He returned to Cambridge to establish a laboratory and became the principal of Cambridge in 1996.
Alec Browers has devoted almost all of his career in social enterprises to IBM, and IBM itself is a world-renowned supplier of commercial computer hardware and solutions, so he understands the Internet very well and attaches great importance to it. .
However, the UK itself has not yet formed a strong atmosphere for Internet entrepreneurship these days. Although there are several well-established high-paying technology companies in the UK, these companies generally focus on chip-based hardware and are not so interested in the product-based Internet industry. understanding.
Because of this, it has led to an embarrassing situation: there are almost no real Internet companies in the UK that can take action.
Alec Browers himself is very anxious about the development of the Internet in the UK. He even feels that Cambridge needs to help the UK improve the strength and level of the entire country in the Internet, so he has been promoting the establishment of a "Silicon Swamp" around Cambridge. "The park attracts multinational Internet companies as well as local Internet companies to settle in.
However, although Alec Browers has this intention, he does not have the ability to revitalize the entire market.
Not only is there little development in British Internet companies, but Cambridge students don't seem to be very enthusiastic about the Internet. Their future employment plans are generally in Europe, and Europe itself is not a soil with Internet roots.
Almost half of Cambridge students will choose to stay in Europe after graduation, and a small number will choose to return to their motherland. Only a small part will decide to go to North America for development. Moreover, due to Cambridge's consistent development situation, almost all students going to North America will All go to Wall Street, and very few choose to go to Silicon Valley.
The reason for not choosing Silicon Valley is not that they are not interested in Silicon Valley, but that they feel that it is much more difficult to enter Silicon Valley than to enter Wall Street.
Although universities such as Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College are very impressive, in this day and age, because they are in Europe and far away from the center of the Internet industry, students from these universities have very few opportunities to truly enter the core circle of the Internet, let alone Top companies like Makino Technology.
If Makino Technology does not offer them direct employment positions, it is very likely that they will not recruit anyone from Cambridge throughout the year.
The reason is not because there is anything bad about Cambridge, but because companies in Silicon Valley prefer to recruit local employees, as well as experienced, hard-working Chinese and Indian employees. They are inherently repulsive to pampered European college students.
What's more, even in American universities such as Stanford and MIT, which are close to the holy land of the Internet, it is not that easy for their students to enter Makino Technology, let alone students in Europe who are far away from the Internet battlefield.
For these universities in the UK, they are also aware of the rapid development of the Internet industry, so they also hope to find a good opportunity to break into the core layer of the Internet and break into Silicon Valley.
At this stage, Silicon Valley is far less international than it will be a dozen years ago. More than 70% of Silicon Valley practitioners now graduated from American universities, and most of the rest are from China and India.
It's relatively easy for students from European universities to get into Wall Street, but it's really not that easy for students from European universities to get into Silicon Valley.
At this time, Europe was somewhat similar to Japan. They both had a strong economic foundation, a strong industrial and academic foundation, but they did not have a strong Internet foundation.
Japan has failed to grasp the Internet industry, and the same is true for Europe. In a dozen years, the top 20 Internet companies in the world by market value will be divided between American companies and Chinese companies. No one in Europe, Japan, or other countries will have a chance.
The reason is that except for the United States and China, no other country has created a real Internet industry atmosphere.
European institutions of higher learning have long been aware of these problems and are concerned about them.
For any world-renowned university, the most important thing is not academic achievements and academic construction, but the graduates' flourishing careers in various parts of the world and in all walks of life. Li Mu summed this up as academic colonization.
In Li Mu's eyes, academic colonization is the vertical penetration of civilized means, and it is common in modern society.
If a few Tsinghua graduates enter Silicon Valley and get influential positions in influential jobs, then there will definitely be more and more Tsinghua graduates in Silicon Valley, and even eventually it will become a large-scale alumni association;
If students from Jiaotong University’s School of Finance can gain a foothold on Wall Street, more Jiaotong University graduates will also take root on Wall Street in the future.
This is true for one institution, but if it is enlarged to a country, the scale and significance of academic colonization will be even greater and far-reaching.
Academic colonization is like ethnic migration. As long as the pioneers can establish a firm foothold and achieve success, the later generations will follow.
Universities in Europe, especially the UK, all hope to make achievements in the high-tech IT field. Sending their students to Silicon Valley and the best Internet companies in the world has become their dream. At this time, Li Mu gave them An excellent springboard is of great significance to these schools.
Therefore, each of these schools is very interested in the cooperation mentioned by Charles. They exchange a certain amount of exchange student resources for an opportunity to go to Silicon Valley or go to the world's number one Internet company for academic colonization. This deal is very cost-effective. .
Alec Browers is also very eager for such cooperation. He hopes that Makino Technology can give these young people more opportunities to see the future and allow them to prepare for their future in advance. If a group of people can be directly sent to Working at Makino Technology would be even more perfect.
Therefore, Alec Browers quickly agreed to Charles' request and was willing to offer more than a hundred exchange student places to make a mutually beneficial deal with Li Mu.
Charles quickly compiled the feedback from British universities on Li Mu’s cooperation plan.
Among the top ten universities in the UK, every college is willing to establish cooperation with Li Mu, and the number of exchange students they can provide ranges from more than a hundred to dozens of students.
The most generous among them is the University of Cambridge, which has given 150 exchange student places at once, covering almost all majors in undergraduate and graduate schools.
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When Li Mu returned to Ziyun Villa, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.
Zhao Ziqiu was still playing with the dog in the yard. In one day, she had established a good relationship with the corgi. The little guy had regarded her as his master and kept surrounding her.
Seeing Li Mu come back, Zhao Ziqiu hurriedly said to Li Mu: "Lucky is so cute and very smart. Do you want to play with him for a while?"
Li Mu smiled and said: "What are you doing? You're calling me a dog."
After that, he walked up to Gouzi, squatted down, touched his dog's head, and said with a smile: "How about Gouzi, isn't this a little less interesting than your hometown?"
Although the villas in Ziyun Villa can be considered a very high-end villa area, compared with Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle, they are still far behind.
Gouzi had not had much contact with Li Mu, so he touched him twice. He might have been a little scared, so he instinctively took two steps back, looking at him with his small eyes, with a wary look on his face.
Li Mu smiled and said: "Looking at how cowardly you are, I can still eat you."
Zhao Ziqiu shook his head and smiled: "How can you get along with a dog like this? How can you scare it again?"
Li Mu smiled and said: "It's okay, I just teased it first."
Zhao Ziqiu said: "Be careful that it ignores you in the future."
Li Mu said, "It's okay. We'll get to know each other after living together for a few more days."
Zhao Ziqiu asked him: "Have you ever raised a dog before?"
Li Mu nodded and said: "Our family had a Pekingese before, and I don't know what happened. In those years, Pekingeses were so popular that all the people walking dogs on the street were Pekingeses."
Zhao Ziqiu asked: "How did your family raise Jingba in the past?"
Li Mu thought for a while and said: "Take it out for a walk once or twice a day, and then it will basically eat whatever the person eats, and there will be nothing else."
Zhao Ziqiu said: "This breed of dog is very valuable, you can't raise it like a Pekingese."
Li Mu smiled and said: "What's so precious about gold? Isn't it said that Jingba was raised by Lafayette in the palace back then? It is said to be much more valuable than it."
Zhao Ziqiu smiled and said: "You will become blind and poor all day long."
After saying that, Zhao Ziqiu took Li Mu's hand and said, "Let's go in and eat first. I made fried noodles for you."
(End of chapter)