Re:Google was incorporated 25 years ago on September 4 1998
by dekhn on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:41PM
(#37399883)
R&D in pharma/biotech can be like this. But there are fewer and fewer free-wheeling R&D groups in industry these days, probably because people saw Xerox PARC and thought it was a waste of money (a single invention at PARC paid for all of PARC).
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Google was incorporated 25 years ago on September 4 1998
by ghaff on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @09:34PM
(#37400342)
>But there are fewer and fewer free-wheeling R&D groups in industry these days
This was true going back to the 80s. If anything there's been something of an uptick in companies with money to burn.