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Do businesses profit off the work of scientists and engineers?
I don't mean to offend anyone in the business field. It just seems that most products and services have been devised by scientific minds; and that business people just sort of "sell" the creation. What is stopping scientists and engineers from selling their own creations? What role do business people play that the scientists cannot play themselves??
They are for marketing! Pure P.R.! Most scientists aren't interested in that side of the game, so to speak.IMO
silvaconsultants
Inventing a new product or service is often the easiest part of the process. Someone needs to figure out how to turn the invention into a salable product, develop a way to manufacture it, and most important of all, find a way to sell the product to the public at a reasonable price. Someone also needs to come up with the money necessary to finance product development, manufacturing, marketing, and advertising. This can involve millions of dollars for even the simplest of products.
Most scientists and engineers don't have the skills or money necessary to take the product beyond the invention stage. In fact, there are probably thousands of great ideas and inventions just sitting on the shelve because the inventor doesn't have the ability or courage to take steps necessary to make the product a reality.
If you look through history, you will generally find that the inventor of most products made very little money off of their ideas -- it was the business people and entrepreneurs who promoted the product who got rich. Probably not fair, but true.
JOHN
what stops them is the contract they have to sign saying anything they invent belongs to the company
Richard
Everyone has their role in life. A brilliant research scientist who invents the new treatment for high blood pressure doesn't want to travel around visiting doctors for sales calls. Maybe a great drug rep (a sales person) doesnt want to be stuck in a research lab with no windows looking at beakers and test tubes. Maybe both of them have no interest in accounting or doing the taxes for the business.
Robert T
Scientists invent the substance to make a poly pipe an engineer designs and makes the machine to make the pipe.
The pipe then goes to plumber who adds a tap,bingo you have water for a shower.Think about a car or anything everybody and everything is connected somehow.Not every person that goes to school can or will want to study as hard as University Graduates.But they by themselves cannot do all the work.It a very big and complicated world.
scott
Business people have stellar models to market the merchandise to the public.
ahsoasho2u2
THEY WORK UNDER CONTRACT FOR THE BUSINESS THUS ANYTHING INVENTED IS THE SOLE PROPERTY OF THE PERSON PAYING THE SCIENTISTS. HOW ELSE COULD YOU HIRE THEM FOR 100,000 A YEAR TO WORK FOR YOU. IT MAY BE 10 YEARS BEFORE THE MONEY IS RECOUPED BUT IT EVENTUALLY IS RECOUPED BY BUSINESS THREE TIMES OVER.
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