[DIYbio] Re: [diybio-eu] Modern day Menlow Park

Why don't we create a modern day invention factory, where we all suffer in a crappy wooden lab with all the old-school hardcore lab equipment we need, and create amazing things for shared profit?

Much of the internet seems to always chose Tesla > Edison because Edison killed an elephant, but they were both genius in their own right as inventors and businessmen.  If Drunken History has taught us anything, Edison went on to found GE, while Tesla died alone in a hotel, in love with a pigeon. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gOR91oentQ)

All jokes aside...I honestly only know one company that was set up to "self fund" scientists doing research, and that was New England Biolabs which is close by. Obviously, there are probably many more, but the point is, many corporate structures are setup in such a way that the few on the top get a large portion of the wealth and the rest is trickle down.

Is having 5-20 people inventing the shit out of things a viable business model?  Or...is academia the closest thing to that?