You will be amazed how much side effect / cross improvement this had created in. For e.g. Because Semiconductor industry need precise high vacuums, large vacuum pump companies invested in technology of high speed rotating device at near zero vacuum scale. Which in turn enabled them to create ultra compact flywheel technologies for transportation. Or on socioeconomic side, because of higher wealth and more leisure times, there are tons of nutrition research which in turn created single food all vitamin products and superfoods.