Archive of posts with tag 'Bell Labs'
Bell Labs Holmdel. From Severance season 2, episode 5.
Western Electric Plant. Cicero, IL.
Western Electric was the captive equipment arm of the Bell System and produced the majority of the telephones and related equipment used in the U.S. for almost 100 years.
Bell Labs Holmdel Complex. New Jersey.
Whatever happened to the industrial R&D lab? →
Ben Southwood looks at the waning of the big R&D labs:
The Rise and Fall of the R&D Lab →
August 31, 2020 • #Corporate research was a big deal in the mid-20th century. In this piece, Ben Southwood inspects why we no longer have modern equivalents to research centers like Xerox PARC or Bell Labs.
An interesting point here on what might be demotivating large organizations to invest too much in deep research:
Another possible answer is that non-policy developments have steadily made spillovers happen faster and more easily. Technology means faster communication and much more access to information. An interconnected and richer world doing more research means more competitors. And while all of these are clearly good, they reduce the technology excludability of new ideas, even if legal excludability hasn’t changed, and so may have reduced the returns to innovation by individual businesses.