As Science|Business celebrates the 1000th issue of its newsletter this month, here we republish a 13 October 2005 opinion by Benoit B Mandelbrot, the (now late) founder of fractal geometry
Once upon a time, there were great businesses with massive central labs that did both product development and basic research. Today, most corporate labs have refocused on applied research. They do not know what they are missing.
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