alt Hacker NewsThat's not what I was saying. The foundational research that built the massive economic engine of the current US did not come from industrial research.
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userbinator • yesterday at 9:34 PM
The "massive economic engine of the current US" is certainly the result of large companies' research. They have all been very open about that, so do you have any proof to the contrary?
More examples: IBM, Kodak, Xerox...
Did you overlook the transistor?
Built at Bell Labs in 1947, getting a Nobel prize for Bardeen, Shockley, and Brittain a few years later?
It's hard to think of a part of any economic engine that doesn't rely on transistors for the last many decades.