>> Private funding for research constitutes the lions share of research funding, and that private research leads to the vast majority of scientific and technolo

>> Private funding for research constitutes the lions share of research funding, and that private research leads to the vast majority of scientific and technological advances around the world. Please reveal your source for this belief. >>every other product on the planet - do those mean nothing? Breakthroughs are expensive and do not conform to our short term business cycles, as they rarely result in products, as opposed to breakthroughs. Trivial and immaterial incrementalism perfectly conform to our business cycle.