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To: elmatador who wrote (26533)	12/16/2007 2:16:51 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217774

<The marriage of corporations and university researchers is still in its early days. > 20 years ago while in London, I needed a literature search/review done for a fuels project. I could get Sunbury the UK BP R&D place to do it for 55 pounds an hour, or Deutsche BP's R&D to do it for about 65 pounds an hour. It seemed insane how much they could get away with charging. So I found a South African university who could do a perfectly good job for about 10 pounds an hour. And they obviously needed the work a lot more than did the UK or Germany. BP put a Professor Cadogan in charge of the R&D labs and I think he was very much a scientist who saw the BP cash flow as a giant piggy bank to do research that he thought was science rather than the boring money-making commercial development work. QUALCOMM is now doing some and has done plenty of university funding. I wanted to persuade BP to set up a huge R&D facility in China back in the mid 1980s. It seemed ridiculous to me that BP was spending 60 pounds an hour for mediocre talent when swarms of Chinese women with IQs of 160 must be messing around planting rice or cleaning out the hutongs. Everyone would benefit from them doing something better. BP could have got about 100 times the talent for the same price. China probably would have stopped it or maybe there were other problems. QUALCOMM is doing a bit of it in India and China. Mostly they seem to import people to the USA to work with the rest of them. Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (26533)	12/17/2007 2:27:46 AM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 217774

Poorly researched. Bell labs licenced the transistor to Texas Instrument among other, for about $100,000 in the 1950s. The license Sony had to buy cost so much they had to get permission from the Japanese government to spend that much foreign currency. The Bell labs / Xerox PARC model has been gone for a while. There are a few places with the Bell Labs model : The big drug companies are close. There big defense contractors also have similar operations, like Hughes Malibu Research, Rockwell, Lockheed, etc. IBM has cut back, but still maintains some activity. There are also the big national labs with pretty open charters : Sandia, Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL, National Institutes of Health, Argonne National Laboratory, FermiLab, etc.

To: elmatador who wrote (26533)	12/18/2007 6:33:10 AM
From: Arran Yuan	Respond to of 217774

el, A sad, eventful but inevitable come! As an experimental researcher by training (not trained in experimenting in playing capitals but doing good with it anyway), I have always been fascinated by those who pioneered in research at At&T, XEROX, etc. They really enjoyed their researches since the spirit of USA had in the age. That was long gone, so here is gone of Bell Labs. On this planet at present, it is really dull. Lack of philosophical thinking is the root for it. There was prosperity, progresses in expanding and exploiting, but no leap in a long time. Well, that is the cycle of the grand dynamics, perhaps?