Companies have only done research after WW2? Can you cite something for that, or is it your own view? My recollection is that the entire industrial revolution

Companies have only done research after WW2? Can you cite something for that, or is it your own view? My recollection is that the entire industrial revolution was based on innovations that came out of the private sector. Or, is the distinction you're making one of teams vs individuals? The size of teams needed to make new inventions has gone up over time I'm sure, but companies led by an inventor with other people working for them on developing the invention certainly predates WW2! That's basically what the US model already does, and it leads to ever growing tuition fees, and people far over their head in debt before they even leave university. That's because western society convinced itself that people had to have degrees or else they'd be useless and unsuccessful for life. In the UK universities are basically all taxpayer funded - the so-called student 'loans' are all from the government and aren't structured in the same way bank loans would be, so it's essentially public funded, and people end up in lots of debt there too.