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Bell Labs was funded by a government-sanctioned monopoly. Calling it a "corporate lab" is incredibly misleading, but popular among corporate lab types.
by octoberfranklin 6y ago
Bell Labs was funded by a government-sanctioned monopoly. Calling it a "corporate lab" is incredibly misleading, but popular among corporate lab types.
- not2b 6y agoMany companies that did not have a sanctioned monopoly used to have significant investments in research labs; those investments have been scaled back drastically.