3) Politically savvy managers with a technical background, who treat money/sustainability as an enabling factor and see the primary output as being technical.

3) Politically savvy managers with a technical background, who treat money/sustainability as an enabling factor and see the primary output as being technical. The closest I every came to this was Australia's DSTO in the late 1980s. The management was technical and cared deeply about their people, the development of those people and making a positive technical contribution. An interesting recollection of Bell Labs: https://quello.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Memories-Noll.pdf https://quello.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Memories-N... I think it's not about recreating Bell Labs, but doing something better that will fit in with today's technical ecosystem. Are entry barriers lower today, or is that part of the problem: low entry barriers mean people don't have to congregate to get sufficient resources?