Device manufacturers will find, unless they have breakthrough technology with demonstrably better results, they will be financially better off lowering the costs of tried-and-true devices and gaining market share.
The vast majority of biotech companies engaging in drug development pay no taxes because they are losing money year after year as they pursue breakthrough therapies and cures.
The hollow-fiber story highlights the way that even technologies viewed as longshots continue to attract attention, especially when they have breakthrough potential.
Principals and teachers don't generally stand to make much more money if they achieve breakthrough results (or attract gobs more customers).
Convinced that they had made a breakthrough, they approached Bangalore University and later the road institute for research and support.
There was talk that they had about 80 per cent of the problem sorted but they couldn't manage the breakthrough they sought.
In Dáil elections they did not make the breakthrough they hoped and indeed have lost ground.
Of course MaidSafe's team might be misguided in terms of the breakthrough they think they've made with Parsec.
Radiotherapists were focused on collecting statistics to incrementally improve the application of radiotherapy, whether by novel machines, or isotopes, or new routines but they did not experiment (much) on the basis of laboratory work, nor did they expect breakthroughs.
