Thanks for the friendlies HN.
Well done and congrats. Glad we nabbed you for a visit to New Zealand before you got lost in work again. Good luck in your new job.
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#12Out of curiosity, what other well known corporate R&D / internal incubators exist out there?
Bell Labs immediately comes to mind.
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#13Out of curiosity, what other well known corporate R&D / internal incubators exist out there?
Bell Labs immediately comes to mind.
They've changed hands so many times between AT&T, Lucent, Alcatel and Alcatel-Lucent that they're long gone. I think Alcatel-Lucent said they were basically disbanding the sliver of Bell Labs that was left around the 2007 time frame.
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#14Congrats! Glad to hear you working for an org down in my area that's not the government!
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#15Out of curiosity, what other well known corporate R&D / internal incubators exist out there?
Still in the news area, some of the larger newspapers keep dedicated infoviz and digital media departments. They report news, but in ways that just aren't possible with a newspaper, and don't involved tables and tables of columns.
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#16Thanks for the friendlies HN.
I'd love to see you do write-ups on some of the 35+ cool companies you met with. Surely you've seen some neat things. Even if the companies/positions weren't for you, I'm sure they'd benefit from the exposure as would all of us.
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#17Out of curiosity, what other well known corporate R&D / internal incubators exist out there?
In Cambridge, MA alone we have Nokia Research Center (NRC), Microsoft NERD (no really, New England Research and Development Center, but they've dropped the C in the last year or two :-) Disney Research... up until a couple of years back we had Orange/France Telecom, too. (BITD there was a "$foo Cambridge Research Labs" for most computer/tech values of $foo; these days all the new buildings, and a lot of the old, are biotech instead.)
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#18Alas, it is newspaper distribution and not newsrooms that consume the vast majority of profits at most newspapers.
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#19Thanks for the friendlies HN.
Welcome to the Post!
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#20Out of curiosity, what other well known corporate R&D / internal incubators exist out there?
Lockheed's Skunk Works comes to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
Google has its so-called X Lab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_X_Lab
Xerox PARC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC
If you want to read a great page-turner history of PARC, check out Michael Hiltzik's book: Dealers of Lightning. One of his conclusions is that the laser printer alone paid for PARC several times over.