Not sure most people would consider venture capital funded startups as even close to the same as the large corporate basic R&D of the past. A better 'name' mig

Not sure most people would consider venture capital funded startups as even close to the same as the large corporate basic R&D of the past. A better 'name' might be: niche short term applied r&d. Likewise, university "research" is not the wide open expanse that it once was either.