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Re:The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science... by watwut on Monday December 22, 2025 @01:13PM (#46356848)
Cause goverments funds basic research and private sector does not. Also, results of private sector research are secret, patented and generally dont create competitive markets.
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Re:The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science... by jandrewrogers on Monday December 22, 2025 @01:28PM (#46357061)
The amount of basic research funded by the private sector has been growing for decades. It is now a large percentage of the total in the US.

Government investment didn’t decline, private investment massively grew. Same thing happened in applied research decades earlier.

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