Economics = MC2 A portrait of the modern physics startup
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2014 - For much of the 20th century, many of the technological innovations that drove U.S. economic growth emerged from "idea factories" housed within large companies - research units like Bell Labs or Xerox PARC that developed everything from the transistor to the computer mouse. In recent decades, however, many large high-tech companies have eliminated in-house research programs, turning inste ... more

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