Innovation doesn't work like that. I normally think about it like this: Government research: Money spent here is the most abstract as it doesn't define a pro

Innovation doesn't work like that. I normally think about it like this: Government research: Money spent here is the most abstract as it doesn't define a problem before it tries to solve it but rather looks for things we don't understand yet. Military research: The point of this research is maintaining power which means researching whatever might give you the upper hand. This is why AI is added to the research now. Whoever is furthest have the upper hand. Because getting the upper hand with regards to physical power can be a lot of things, whoever wants to be in power have to invest in a broad spectrum of areas. Product/market research: Solving problems perceptually or real, defined by the market itself or creating new markets but often using knowledge from what was created by governments and millitary (or ex. space travel). These are often accidental and byproducts. Now here is the problem. Just because you can define a market or a problem doesn't mean you can find a market for it. You have to find the customers who benefit from and who can pay. If you took the money away from the millitary and gave it to solve "humanities problems" you would run the risk of loosing the monopoly of power because the problems of the humanity is not the same as those of the individual nation states.