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by idoh 5196 days ago
By law many federal agencies have to give research grants to small businesses. My mom runs a physics research company and that's how they stay in business.

You check out SBIR grants - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Business_Innovation_Resea...

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> My mom runs a physics research company [...]

I'm curious -- how does this work? I.e. what kinds of organizations contract her for what kinds of tasks / duration? I would have thought that research was inherently un-estimatable.