[cutemonster]

> Is that speculation on your part, or something you figured out

That's just normal monthly wages, how things usually work.

> look what real companies are actually doing already

But you can't look at what companies are doing now, to find out if new research is useful? The companies can't yet have started doing the things that any new & good research enables (since it wasn't known before).

Could take years until they make use of the research

(But maybe you meant something else)

[eru]

I mean look at what companies have been doing in the past to organise and incentivise research, and see what worked.

Look at what processes worked (and didn't work!). Not at what specific inventions worked.

[cutemonster]

If you have any books or articles you like related to that, it'd be interesting to hear :-)

(Research by Google about psychological safety comes to my mind.)