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Private companies don’t do basic research.
by conception 4mo ago
Private companies don’t do basic research.
- jjtheblunt 4mo agothey definitely do for electronics, for example. i've worked in such (Qualcomm, Motorola, Apple) in inner sanctum engineering roles.
- j7ake 4mo agoCheck Physics and Chemistry Nobel prize of last 5 years, Google was involved in half of them.
- xhkkffbf 4mo agoIBM researchers won a few Nobel prizes themselves.
- dcrazy 4mo agoHave things changed since Bell Labs produced the transistor?
- inejge 4mo agoYes. Bell Labs are a shadow of their former glory, when Bell could lavishly fund it, having a quasi-socialist telecommunications monopoly. Private companies don't like to fund research outside of their own domain -- that has been offloaded to federal funding, but (as seen here) it's getting a lot more strings attached.