I've worked in a couple of corporate research labs. Yes, you'll be expected to do more convincing about the value of your research for the company. That raises

I've worked in a couple of corporate research labs. Yes, you'll be expected to do more convincing about the value of your research for the company. That raises two problems: - Some great researchers are not very good at convincing. - From a purely financial standpoint some research does not make sense considering the risk (more ground breaking and longer usually means more risk). I'm not sure that the alternative is not much better though.