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**GZFL2tDA** · 07-10-2010, 02:57 PM

Not being pessimistic, being realistic. I've spent more then a decade now in R&D with most clients being in the defense sector. There is an amazing range of innovations and equipment that never get to be commercial products because they cost too damn much to get into the mass market. There are even technologies that cost too much for the military even without congress being involved in such things as funding. Yet there is still a constant demand for innovation.

Well of course there are. That's the nature of R&D - lots of dead ends, with a few big hitters that sell and justify the costs of the dead ends.

07-10-2010, 02:57 PM	#39
GZFL2tDA Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 351 Senior Member	Not being pessimistic, being realistic. I've spent more then a decade now in R&D with most clients being in the defense sector. There is an amazing range of innovations and equipment that never get to be commercial products because they cost too damn much to get into the mass market. There are even technologies that cost too much for the military even without congress being involved in such things as funding. Yet there is still a constant demand for innovation. Well of course there are. That's the nature of R&D - lots of dead ends, with a few big hitters that sell and justify the costs of the dead ends.
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