Hmm I've had the opposite experiences. Corp labs release cool and useful stuff all the time. On the front page right now is Seamless, a very useful thing releas

Hmm I've had the opposite experiences. Corp labs release cool and useful stuff all the time. On the front page right now is Seamless, a very useful thing released by a corporate lab. And corps have performance evaluation and management programmes designed to encourage high performance output. And of course the competent ones manage to bring research into production regularly. Whereas with academics, you get a paper. You might get data and code, or might not, depending on field and temperament of the researchers. If you're really lucky that data/code might actually be correct, match the paper and be usable for something, but it really depends a lot on the field. You almost certainly won't get products.