November 24, 2017 09:28 am PST
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AlphaGo Zero shows that corporate R&D has starved basic research in favor of safe bets and tinkering at the margins
An NBER paper from 2015 tracks the decline in corporate spending on basic science in R&D, which has become a practical, application-focused line-item in corporate budgets, creating a safe, predictable, and slow cycle of innovation. (more…)
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