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Give me just one example where that ever worked to create a viable company. Whoops, there aren‘t any. Separating research and development never really worked fo

Give me just one example where that ever worked to create a viable company. Whoops, there aren‘t any. Separating research and development never really worked for anything. What do you expect, if you have a two class employment hierarchy: First, people who have all the freedom, but no responsibility or constraints, giving semi-good solutions to people who aren’t motivated to let other peoples ideas succeed with all the responsibility to make them successful but no freedom to pivot or iterate. Even if you separate them inside the same company, very rarely does something usable come out of it. Proof in case: Some of the worst, most uninnovative companies in Germany (SAP, T-Mobile, etc.) have some of the most stellar research results, papers and sought-after positions, yet they never result in successful products in practice.

adventured 9y ago
Take a look at this list, as one small example: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?id=11358 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?i... Commercialization hand-offs have been extremely successful. It doesn't have to be for starting one specific company, it can be for sparking large broad technology adoption such as the Internet or technology in the aerospace industry. SpaceX exists overwhelmingly due to NASA. Tesla solely exists because of the US Government. Self-driving technology has been dramatically pushed forward by numerous government initiatives over decades. The iPhone exists because of numerous technologies invented by or funded by the US military. GPS exists because of the US Government. Silicon Valley owes a ton of its success to the US Government funding progress on microchips. The entire computer industry owes an epic thank you to the US Government supporting it. Maybe it works very differently in Germany. In the US, the federal government has handed off vast technology to the private sector.
icebraining 9y ago
DARPA funded the seed for the Internet, GPS, self-driving cars, plus all the work that went into The Mother of All Demos. Bell Labs: its researchers are credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the operating systems Unix, Plan 9, and Inferno, and the programming languages C, C++, and S. Plenty of viable companies have been created from these research results.

adventured 9y ago

Take a look at this list, as one small example: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?id=11358 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?i... Commercialization hand-offs have been extremely successful. It doesn't have to be for starting one specific company, it can be for sparking large broad technology adoption such as the Internet or technology in the aerospace industry. SpaceX exists overwhelmingly due to NASA. Tesla solely exists because of the US Government. Self-driving technology has been dramatically pushed forward by numerous government initiatives over decades. The iPhone exists because of numerous technologies invented by or funded by the US military. GPS exists because of the US Government. Silicon Valley owes a ton of its success to the US Government funding progress on microchips. The entire computer industry owes an epic thank you to the US Government supporting it. Maybe it works very differently in Germany. In the US, the federal government has handed off vast technology to the private sector.

icebraining 9y ago

DARPA funded the seed for the Internet, GPS, self-driving cars, plus all the work that went into The Mother of All Demos. Bell Labs: its researchers are credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the operating systems Unix, Plan 9, and Inferno, and the programming languages C, C++, and S. Plenty of viable companies have been created from these research results.