There are millions prepared already. They just make the mistake to imagine it is already industrial, and ask for industrial-grade evidence. some judge it should be treates as seedling/startup capital, not as developement/industrialization capital (maybe I don't use the good US term).
oood example is Brillouin and the 3-20 million... while teams with 250k needs to fund lab, engineering design, patents, have difficulties. maybe proposing a research consortium needing many million, to fund a dozen of teams after good selection, could be successfull... 2013/10/31 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> > This initiative begs the question: where will you get the money? Where and > how? If a good plan or good prospects were sufficient to attract funding, > this field would have billions of dollars already. > > - Jed > >
