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Re:You Cannot Serve Two Masters: The Harms of Dual Affiliation by rlkf on Friday August 10, 2018 @04:26PM (#17736492)
If BigCompany expects its research center to crush inconvenient innovations, they're not really running a research center, they're just calling it that because they like the titles.
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Re:You Cannot Serve Two Masters: The Harms of Dual Affiliation by hnbroseph on Friday August 10, 2018 @04:40PM (#17736575)
i read "inconvenient" as "competing". if your r&d can lead to a few choice patents (or you "just" buy them) you can sometimes hamstring competition or get little graft by leeching off competitor's developments.
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Re:You Cannot Serve Two Masters: The Harms of Dual Affiliation by buth_lika on Friday August 10, 2018 @10:44PM (#17737986)
The point of being a big company, not the point of running a research center.
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