Comments on: Don’t judge a nanotech white paper by its cover http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2150 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: John Novak http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2150#comment-7520 John Novak Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:04:09 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2150#comment-7520 Uh, because the government has been spending on basic research, which takes much longer to show practical results but which corporations are less willing to fund, rather than applied research or product development, which has shorter cycle time but which corporations take up for profit as soon as they think the cycle times are short enough. (At least, right now. Later, branches of the government like the military and the health bureaus will start funding more targetted product development for critical needs.) Uh, because the government has been spending on basic research, which takes much longer to show practical results but which corporations are less willing to fund, rather than applied research or product development, which has shorter cycle time but which corporations take up for profit as soon as they think the cycle times are short enough.

(At least, right now. Later, branches of the government like the military and the health bureaus will start funding more targetted product development for critical needs.)

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