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Re:Energy Storage Investments Boom as Battery Costs Halve in... by Gravityloss on Saturday August 10, 2019 @05:04PM (#20664509)
It is in general more efficient to do basic research in universities and publish the results so that everybody does not need to do the same large amount of experiments.

Then do the productization in companies.

I don't know which part is harder regarding batteries, but I assume we have still quite a lot of basic research to do as well.

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Re:Energy Storage Investments Boom as Battery Costs Halve in... by RobertoG on Saturday August 10, 2019 @06:06PM (#20664750)
Is that how it works?

My impression was that the basic research was done in universities (with public funding) until there are some good patents, then the patents are transferred to some kind of private company that take the profits.

I don't know the procedures very well, so, I would be happy if somebody assure me that this is not the case.

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