They also said that there's a change in the corporate mentality. Whereas government money had always been there for basic science and engineering research, we also counted on some companies to do some basic research, but what's happened now is companies put more energy into short-term product development than they do in basic engineering and science research.
科学家们还提到了 发生在一些大公司身上的变化。 尽管政府资金从来都是 支持基础科学和工程研究的， 但我们也指望一些公司能做一些 基础研究。然而目前的现状是--- 公司将更多的资源投入在 短期的产品研发上 而不是基础工程和科学研究中。