November 25, 2005

Research Inc.

By LILA GUTERMAN

BEST CASE: 2015 sees the results of many medical, scientific, and engineering advances: a drug that prevents Alzheimer's disease, mass-produced cars that run partially on solar energy, and portable devices similar to the cellphones of the past, but cheaper, that allow almost anyone on the planet instant access to anyone else.

Largely financed by industry money, those discoveries were all made in research universities' laboratories. And each breakthrough was quickly patented and

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