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Re:Who Pays the Price When Cochlear Implants Go Obsolete? by pie_flavor on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:32PM (#36051690)
R&D is financed by the profiteering. Having companies legally on the hook for abandoning their clients is a great idea, but demanding that they allow anyone else to manufacture their design is a great way of ensuring vastly fewer designs.
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Re:Who Pays the Price When Cochlear Implants Go Obsolete? by elzbardico on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:38PM (#36051735)
In practice, a lot, and I mean, A LOT of research and development in health is done by universities under government grants from the NIH.

Like this https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/university-minnesota...

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Re:Who Pays the Price When Cochlear Implants Go Obsolete? by pie_flavor on Friday May 26, 2023 @09:19AM (#36083704)
Universities make good idea guys, but they're not so good at turning them into products. The foundational R is done at universities, and then sold to companies so they can do the specific R and all of the D.
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