For what I see, it seems to me that hard STEM startups tackling industrial problems can’t work through the lean paradigm, that’s why too much too often their pr

For what I see, it seems to me that hard STEM startups tackling industrial problems can’t work through the lean paradigm, that’s why too much too often their projects are shut down or internalized as soon as a nice acqui-hiring happens. In other words, bigger firms just scoop applied r&d teams in their field before they actually become a commercial threat.