The claims in this article that corporations don’t do pure research and every project is targeted at revenue generation is false. I’ve been in R&D at both Goog

The claims in this article that corporations don’t do pure research and every project is targeted at revenue generation is false. I’ve been in R&D at both Google and IBM TJ Watson on projects that were never even tangentially revenue generating. A company with 80,000 employees can easily afford to let hundreds or even thousands of employees operate on non-product focused research. In fact on orientation day at IBM we were explicitly told that nothing we do will ever be a product, that there’s a firewall between TJ Watson and the rest of IBM and that any products will be rewritten by product teams. It seems like the author is speculating how things work Not from experience.