The cause was that someone wrote a tip-off letter to the Beijing Procuratorate to report his huge corruption. 201June March 17 The Anti-Corruption Bureau of Haidian District Procuratorate took criminal detention measures against Lin. Fu Lin was formally arrested on April 1 2065438. On May 9, 20 17, the Public Prosecution Office of Haidian Procuratorate formally sued Fu Lin. According to the indictment, Fu Lin was charged with two counts, one was that corruption caused a loss of more than 2.2 million yuan in scientific research funds, and the other was embezzlement of 4.39 million yuan.
Fu Lin case has aroused great concern in colleges and universities-this is a very typical accident caused by the transformation of scientific research achievements. The focus of this case is that the affiliated companies in Fu Lin participated in the research process of the above major topics and the subsequent transformation of scientific research results.
Professor Zhu, deputy dean of the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, said: "The worst impact of the case is that teachers are afraid to transform scientific research results now, so they write papers."
Almost all professors who are engaged in the transformation of scientific research achievements like Fu Lin are faced with a kind of "identity suspicion"-they are both national public officials and can make money through the transformation of scientific research achievements. At the same time, they hold two positions, and it is easy to be suspected of holding national resources for their own use. It is this logic that Fu Lin was reported to be corrupt, as was the case of Chu Jian in Zhejiang University two years ago. "The transformation efficiency of scientific research achievements in our university is far less than that in American universities," said Professor Zhou Qiren from the National Development Research Institute of Peking University in an interview. In recent years, the state has issued a large number of policies to encourage the transformation of scientific research achievements, but there are no clear statements and institutional arrangements on some key details.
For example, he said that there is an intermediary organization in American universities called the Patent Transformation Office. Practitioners are neither scientists nor businessmen, but experts who help scientists apply for patents and promote the commercialization of patents. Commercial benefits brought by patents, 1/3, go to the patent conversion office. Their work efficiency is very high, and the whole technology transformation mode is different. This kind of intermediary organization can help professors avoid many problems directly facing the market when transforming scientific research results.
Fu Lin's wife, Qu Yan, said that since the establishment of the company, she and Fu Lin have always had a heavy psychological burden-not only afraid that people at school will say that they are using public resources to do things for themselves, but also afraid that outsiders will make trouble. He was blackmailed and threatened more than once in the years when he started his company in Fu Lin. On August 20 14, Fu Lin sold the company and prepared to fade out of the business world completely. But this move did not let him avoid the quagmire.
On March 16, 20 16, Fu Lin's schedule was full as usual. After breakfast, he went to work in the office.
Different from usual, he took the luggage for business trip and prepared to go to Jinan in the afternoon. The next day, he had two important things, one was to attend the technical appraisal meeting organized by China Energy Conservation Association, and the other was to report to the leaders of Jinan Municipal Committee. Fu Lin is the chief expert, and the Energy Institute of Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd. (restructured from Tsinghua Urban Planning and Design Institute, hereinafter referred to as "Tsinghua Planning Institute") led by him is the planning and technical supporter of the project.
On the afternoon of the first day, Fu Lin got a call from the Tsinghua University Commission for Discipline Inspection and asked him to go to the Haidian District Procuratorate on March 16 to explain the situation-he was reported to be corrupt again. At 9 o'clock in the morning, Fu Lin came to Haidian District Procuratorate with his luggage. Judging from this move, it seems that he is still thinking about going on a business trip, and he didn't expect what would happen later.
10, Fu Lin's wife, Qu Yan, received a phone call from Haidian Procuratorate asking her to send some materials.
1 1, when Qu Yan rushed to the procuratorate to hand in the materials, he was very angry when he heard Fu Lin in the next room explaining loudly. Qu Yan remembered that two years ago, someone threatened to "send Fu Lin to prison and sentence him to more than 65,438+00 years", and she was a little worried. But she is still confident that as long as Fu Lin explains the problem clearly, she will come back soon.
This is not the first time that it has been reported-2015, 10. The Tsinghua University Commission for Discipline Inspection also received a similar report letter, but after investigating Lin, the Planning Institute of the Tsinghua Commission for Discipline Inspection found that there was no problem. Therefore, Qu Yan believes that this point has been made clear before and can be made clear this time.
But what she didn't expect was that Fu Lin was quickly put into a detention center and never heard his voice again.
There are three affiliated companies in Fu Lin: Huaneng Ruitong, Huaqing Taimeng and Huayuan Taimeng. Someone made a hypothesis that if an external company had replaced Fu Lin's affiliated company as a platform for its R&D and achievements transformation, then Fu Lin might not have set foot in business and would not have faced the above charges. But the problem is that no company was willing to support him at that time.
"The first step in the transformation of scientific research results is not that enterprises let you sell patents, but that you are often looking for enterprise support to make preliminary products." Academician Jiang Yi said that many people think that selling patents or ideas completes the transformation of scientific research achievements, but in fact, there is still a long way to go from patents to products, and few companies take the risk to pay the bill. If you can't get the support of enterprises, you can only organize your own resources for development, and organizing resources will inevitably lead to starting a company, and there will be many troubles in starting a company-that's how Fu Lin stepped into the business world step by step.
Academician Jiang Yi has a similar helpless experience, so he is particularly eager to have such a platform, "let us take the first step of transformation with peace of mind". However, the most difficult first step in the transformation of scientific research achievements is a blank area in the current university system and social mechanism.
At first, Qu Yan was very opposed to the registration of Huaneng Ruitong in Fu Lin. What worries her is that teachers are always suspected of running the company under Li.
At first, Qu Yan's worries seemed superfluous. However, with the success of technology research and development, especially when the commercial value of technology is recognized by the market, this "identity doubt" will become more and more serious until it is unbearable. In the inherent concept, intellectuals should be honest and upright, and Fu Lin is called "the richest man in Tsinghua" by some people on the Internet, which itself is easy to arouse suspicion.
However, even without a registered company, Fu Lin has entered the commercial river. Under the university system in China, many teachers are actually small bosses. Take Fu Lin as an example. Although the energy institute he led is a scientific research institution, it is also an out-and-out legal entity-a subordinate institution of Tsinghua Tongheng Planning Institute, and the enterprise is owned by the whole people. The person in charge of the business license is Fu Lin, registered in 2004. However, the Planning Institute did not register the capital for the Energy Institute, nor did it pay the staff. In fact, the Energy Research Institute is self-financing. Fu Lin should organize people to do research projects to earn money like a boss, otherwise there is no way to pay researchers.
Professor Zhu, deputy dean of the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, said that such research institutes are very common in colleges and universities, mainly to facilitate teachers to undertake projects and provide a platform for retaining high-level scientific research talents. However, the "ownership by the whole people" nature of the Institute of Energy laid the groundwork for Fu Lin to be accused of "misappropriating public funds".
Back to Huaneng Ruitong. According to Zhang Shigang, this company has no business activities, but mainly arranges the personnel of the research group to engage in equipment research and development, and the management is also very extensive-it was first managed by a friend in Fu Lin, and later managed by an employee, and even the official seal of the company was placed in this employee's hand. Such lax management laid the groundwork for the accident in Fu Lin.
Then, can teachers' affiliated companies participate in major scientific research projects? According to people close to the case, the person in charge of Tsinghua University Research Institute made it clear in June 20 17 that the Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing Municipality and Tsinghua University Municipality had no restrictions on affiliated institutions to participate in the project. For the project led by Tsinghua University, the person in charge of the project can join the affiliated units that really undertake scientific research tasks, and allocate the project funds to the participating units without reporting the relationship.
1992 after the southern tour speech, the state encouraged researchers to start businesses, and a large number of discipline companies appeared in colleges and universities, all of which were red hat companies in the name of public ownership. The complexity of these companies in equity has created many stories, such as the case of Chu Jian of Zhejiang University. Since then, the state has repeatedly issued policies to encourage the transformation of scientific research achievements, but teachers have always been shrouded in the shadow of identity suspicion-in a complex social mentality, the more successful people are, the more suspicious they are, while the unsuccessful people are ignored.
In the case of university researchers starting businesses, intellectual property is a very easy field, and making money for themselves with patents belonging to schools is equivalent to corruption. This accusation once appeared in the prosecution opinion of the Haidian District Procuratorate in Beijing against Lin. Huaneng Ruitong owns three patents worth 28 million yuan, so the procuratorate accused Fu Lin of embezzling 28 million yuan. In the final indictment, this accusation disappeared.