The investments needed to improve processes have been going up every year. There can only be so many companies that can pour billions of dollars into R&D each y

The investments needed to improve processes have been going up every year. There can only be so many companies that can pour billions of dollars into R&D each year. If you want to sustain a local cutting-edge manufacturer even when its capacities are redundant or too small to be economical then the pot of subsidies would have to increase yearly and not be spent wastefully. Is there a precedent for that?