Secondary innovations can also come from solving a primary industrial or commercial problem as is often the case. By their nature, secondary innovations are no

Secondary innovations can also come from solving a primary industrial or commercial problem as is often the case. By their nature, secondary innovations are not promised. Hence, researchers can get away with not "delivering" any, no matter how much they pitch the "possibility" when asking for funding. The quality of researchers who will be working is another factor. Presumably it would be very competitive with LHC stuff. But I've seen research projects just become money black-holes as they just end up with unremarkable un-creative research staff who are just there for the paycheck and not competitive enough to otherwise get out of the academic comfort zone.