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This is fine, so long as the $3M funded research is still open and available to anyone to productionise. Is that how it works or are private companies funding
by headsoup 7y ago
This is fine, so long as the $3M funded research is still open and available to anyone to productionise.
Is that how it works or are private companies funding some of the 'open' research phase to then privatise (i.e. make secret) the outcomes?
- Ill_ban_myself 7y agoIf you spend 300$ million in secret research you can realize 1.5 billion in profit. The numbers for research where you're forced to make the production research public mean your competitors can get to market faster and it may mean an investment of even 3 million isn't worth it. There are some medicines/procedures/devices where this is the only way to make the numbers work to sell it.