you're leaving out publicly funded labs at universities, which is where e.g. Google's "garage" days were spent. Public labs are nice for society because they'r

you're leaving out publicly funded labs at universities, which is where e.g. Google's "garage" days were spent. Public labs are nice for society because they're extraordinary cheap relative to their corporate counter-parts (grad student = 30k/yr with no benefits, research scientist = 200+k/yr with full benefits)