There should be a balance though, an open ended research lab that is a non-profit and generates ideas is going to have a tough time getting funding. Maybe this

There should be a balance though, an open ended research lab that is a non-profit and generates ideas is going to have a tough time getting funding. Maybe this research lab should partner with something like YC so when an idea is nearing a production quality design, VC's can fund it to product fruition with some sort of royalty agreement with the research lab to fund more ideas. I would think a lot of highly technical, actual scientists (not some dude who's been hacking at CRUD web apps for a couple decades, aka me) would love to work at a place where constant academia/VC pressure is set aside to allow more pure research to happen.