Just make sure you publish, and do it loudly. I was part of a university group that designed and built the first real-time baseband processor for 802.11a wirel

Just make sure you publish, and do it loudly. I was part of a university group that designed and built the first real-time baseband processor for 802.11a wireless LANs. In the timeline, we were sandwiched between the patent holders (CSIRO) and the start-up (Radiata). We removed the risk, by figuring out that it was possible to actually build the idea that CSIRO proposed, and filling in the details, such as how one built a real-time FFT (in 1995) and how to do the error correction. The result of the research was a paper in IEEE Micro [1], so we got the "credit", but how many people mention the Macquarie University team in the same breath as CSIRO (Prime Minister's Award+$1b royalties) and Radiata ($560 million)? When money is involved, people don't like complicated structures, with too many names attached. [1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=624067 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=624067