For example, subsidies received by energy corporations could be made conditional on a greater percentage of profits being invested in low-carbon innovations. After all, it was this kind of condition – imposed on the US telephone company AT&T in the early twentieth century, in exchange for being allowed to retain its monopoly – that led to the creation of Bell Labs, a crucial incubator of innovation.
公共部门可以——也应该——做得更多。比如，能源公司所获得的补贴应该以加大投资于低碳创新的利润比例为条件。毕竟，这类条件——20世纪初曾经对美国电话电报公司实行过，以此换取保持其垄断地位的权利——曾经催生了贝尔实验室，成为创新的关键孵化器。