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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by imglorp on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @01:00PM (#43707703)
It's also fundamental tech and a research pipeline supporting new ones.

There are numerous examples of whole competencies were transferred to a foreign partner, leaving only sales and marketing in the US. TV's for example, gone by 2000, leaving only a swirl of patent walls to further prevent them from coming back. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2014/10/22/america...

And research? DEC WRL, Bell Labs, Xerox Parc ... Which corp has the gumption to fund any of that again? They'd rather pad the current quarter than invest in the next.

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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by SR2Z on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @03:40PM (#43709501)
Corporate research spending is nearly $1T/yr. Yes, corporations have a lower risk tolerance than the government, but that's not always a bad thing.
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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by perrylaj on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @07:55PM (#43711627)
Not just risk tolerance - they also have different (generally much more short-sighted) incentives.
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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by justinclift on Monday April 21, 2025 @11:07AM (#43752809)
I kind of wonder how much of that money being reported is really research vs gamed numbers? eg for taxation claim purposes and things along those lines.
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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by gsf_emergency on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @04:09AM (#43769728)
Especially interested in data from Google (e.g., from ongoing legal battles?)

(I'd assume Amazon & Microsoft are too clever, too well-run for their own good/our eptification)

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