Check out the book Doing Capitalism In The Innovation Economy for a defense of the government encouraging exactly this sort of thing. I reviewed it on Amazon he

Check out the book Doing Capitalism In The Innovation Economy for a defense of the government encouraging exactly this sort of thing. I reviewed it on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2SCHS5SXNDF30 https://www.amazon.com/review/R2SCHS5SXNDF30. Point being, we want exactly this sort of thing, but it's foolish to expect the market to make this sort of investment very often.