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Say I've got a retail arm that sells consumer products and does consumer research on possible improvements, new products, etc. If I send all that data out to a
by roc 13y ago
Say I've got a retail arm that sells consumer products and does consumer research on possible improvements, new products, etc.
If I send all that data out to an R&D arm to develop and improve my products, an arm run by the same parent corporation(s), and the R&D arm's only gig is supplying those new and improved products back to my retail arm that really doesn't sell anything else, how useful is it to point to the legal distinction between the two outfits whenever someone conversationally implies they're the same thing?
- rayiner 13y agoBecause think tanks are nothing like a subdivision of a parent company?
- roc 13y agoExcept the part where their product (notwithstanding a little PR now and again) is fed pretty much exclusively to another group with largely the same financial backers and that product is shaped for and supported only insofar as it usefully services that other group.