Yes, it's just that they aren't directly linked with LHC - most of the time you're dealing with second/third or higher degree connection, where part of LHC requ

Yes, it's just that they aren't directly linked with LHC - most of the time you're dealing with second/third or higher degree connection, where part of LHC required support technology that in turn required technology that often can be used in for something else. The most famous example is of course WWW, although it's fairly remote - a bit of the encouragement for building it was help CERN work better, and at the time work on LHC's design already started. Other things are work on grid/cloud technology as well as supercomputing, computer visualisation, research on industrial automation (something I personally used for work, directly related to challenges of building and running LHC), etc. etc.