This is not an idle question., A dwindling stock of discoverable insights in the pipeline would mean correspondingly less scope for progress in the future., It's a dismal project., The flow of new ideas is flagging., Companies have run up against a vexing problem., What also matters is the incentive to tackle difficult questions., It gave tinkerers a strong incentive to develop and hone the steam engine and its applications., The search will often prove fruitless., This is why firms might take a lackadaisical approach to some reseaech questions., Disappointing wage growth is a deterrent to the invention., Persistently high rates of profit gave big firms plenty of money to plough into fancy research labs., The competitive pressures which might prompt them to exploit the resulting discoveries are weak.

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