From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:   
   > Richard Dobson wrote:   
   >   
   >> Joerg wrote:   
   >> ..   
   >>> IF the whole plan pans out, and that's usually a big "if". I have heard   
   >>> from Japanese VCs that on average one out of ten make it. The other nine   
   >>> just burn through an awful lot of cash and then fizzle.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> There is a popular story in the UK, that I am ~assured~ is not made up:   
   >>   a British civil servant was talking to his US counterpart about their   
   >> respective [academic] research funding strategies. The US chap said that   
   >> typically around 10% of the allocation converted into successful   
   >> products, innovations, etc. The British chap said "Ah yes, interesting;   
   >> in the UK we just fund the 10%".   
   >   
   > And then hand the results over to the United States.   
   >   
      
   No, to the Japanese who then market it in the US. We just bought DECT   
   phones so I read up on that standard for a few minutes. Turns out a big   
   shot from Siemens had cajoled the FCC into relinquishing a 10MHz swath.   
   So Siemens could (theroretically) market their DECT phones here. Guess   
   what? When I shopped around the number of Siemens phones encountered was   
   zip, zero, zilch. Nearly all of them Panasonic (Japan) which we ended up   
   buying, some Uniden (Japan) and V-Tech (Hong-Kong).   
      
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