Diverse Investment Values
Let us suppose that a company is going to produce an outstanding new robot that does not have any non military applications. The only party that would be allowed the rights to this robot would be the government. After this robot is invented it would be sufficiently easy to manufacture that the company that had taken care of the research would not have any benefit over others in requesting for a production contract. This type of research work would just about not have any value to an investor. There may be another project that might produce the same robot, however the method of manufacturing might be difficult enough that a company not involved in the original development work would have a very hard time trying to make it. This type of research project would have somewhat of a significance to an investor since it would be inclined to assure continual, even though maybe not very profitable, business for the government. There may just be another company that may engineer this robot and while doing this may gain knowledge of ideologies and modus operandi that are straightforwardly pertinent to its normal every day commercial lines and that apparently show more of a profit margin. This kind of research project may have a lot of value to an investor. A few of the most wonderfully successful companies in the recent past are the ones that have a great amount of talent for pin pointing intricate and technical defense work and doing this sort of thing provides them at government expense with knowledge that can reasonably be turned into lucrative non defense fields that have to do with the existing commercial activities. These kinds of companies are giving the government the results of research the defense authorities fundamentally require of. On the other hand, during the same time they are getting at little or virtually no cost, having to do with non defense research benefits that they would most likely otherwise be paying for on their own. This may have been one of the reasons why there have been some very spectacular investments in certain companies.
To conclude, when looking over the relative investment value of company research organizations, there is one other kind of activity that needs to be looked into. This aspect is something that is normally not looked at as developmental research at all, and this has to do with the outwardly unconnected field of market research.
