> So corporations largely stopped funding private research labs like Bell and instead entered into public-private partnerships They didn't though. Bayh-Dole wa

> So corporations largely stopped funding private research labs like Bell and instead entered into public-private partnerships They didn't though. Bayh-Dole was 1980. All the big tech firms have invested massively in R&D since then, and I think it's also true for many non-tech industries or tech-adjacent (e.g. chip manufacturing, oil and gas).