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I don't know how this works in Germany, but in China, it usually goes this way: doesn't matter if you are good at or even know it (officials won't care), just s
by cauldron 8y ago
I don't know how this works in Germany, but in China, it usually goes this way:
doesn't matter if you are good at or even know it (officials won't care), just scour the internet and produce a PPT, pull some strings to arrange a fancy dinner with relevant local officials, deal done, once you got the money hire someone to do a demo, profit.
One woman bragging about this was vacationing on the Palm Jumeirah island in UAE last year, she was there pitching her block chain projects to Arabs.
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- rmetzler 8y agoI'm German and don't think there are fancy dinners needed, before you get the funding money. It's much more bureaucracy. It can be so much overhead in administrative work that companies which try to find a stable business model may not want to invest into getting research funds and other companies may have specialized in applying and getting research funding. From what I hear it's not unusual to use the money for paying people who work on other topics, produce a little output and write in the report "we did some research, but more research is needed..."