A new article reveals that large corporations are investing less in science. From 1980 to 2006, publications by company scientists have declined in a range of industries. The result holds across a range of industries.
Investigators also found that the value attributed to scientific research has dropped, whereas the value attributed to technical knowledge (as measured by patents) has remained stable. Companies appear to be focusing more on developing existing knowledge and commercializing it, rather than on creating new knowledge through basic research.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171127124929.htm
[Abstract]: The decline of science in corporate R&D
Remembering AT&T Bell Labs, IBM Labs, Xerox PARC, HP Labs, TI, etc. In the current political and economic situation, do you think companies in USA have the will and means to reverse this decline?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday November 30 2017, @03:19AM (8 children)
Another reason research should be open and shared rather than hidden and duplicated just because...patents.
The world doesn't need more patents and lobbying to support them: it needs good, open, shared research LIKE IT USED TO BE!
Fucking corporations.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 30 2017, @03:58AM (7 children)
How much corporate research was shared? Bell Labs and Unix seems to be an exception to the rule. No, I don't have any citations to offer, but patents and corporate secrets have been a thing for a almost a century. Corporate espionage didn't spring into existence just in the last quarter century. Everything we have today, like trademarks and trade secrets, has always been there. You might make a case that abuse is more flagrant today, but there are limits to that as well.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:18AM (2 children)
Go for a job interview, with all those pushy unanaimated insectoid morons. It is no wonder that America is losing the battle, because the big boys are all Pajeet poodoos and Nguet Nguen idiots who don't understand a goddamn thing about English,
Go ahead, save your few bucks. You will lose to Apple!
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:48AM (1 child)
Apple also hires Pajeet and Nguen, thank you very much. Jobs is dead, long live the turtleneck.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:14PM
I do not believe there is any danger to longevity. It's turtlenecks all the way down.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:43AM (3 children)
My first US patent started with the number 5, back around 1992 or 3, I think. I'm pretty sure there are at least twice that many now. So, from the patent act in 1790 until 1990, there were ~5 million patents issued, and in the following 27 years, there were ~5 million MORE patents issued.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:49AM (1 child)
And how many of those were bullshit software patents or patents for existing things that just added on a computer or on the internet?
(Score: 2) by chromas on Thursday November 30 2017, @06:22AM
Has anyone invented cyberpatents yet?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @07:32PM
Yes, there may be 5 million MORE patents, but of those half are junk like patenting "swipe to lock/unlock". That's no patent, its just IP protectionism games.
USA companies are investing in R&D - OOgle, aceBook .. the WRONG companies, pouring millions into researching how to strengthen themselves as the Data Barons and oppress the masses in the Land of the "Free", and the rest of the world as a bonus.