Gov Research
One of the great things about government funded research is it doesn't have to have a clear financial goal. So if government invested more we might get more stuff like.
HTTP invented at CERN
ARM party started by NEB - an government organisation formed because of Wilson speech (not the best sub there Tim)
ARPNET - US Government funded
Internet - Al Gore put the bill though congress
Teflon - NASA
Computers - Bletchley Park
Graphene - University of Manchester
instead of
Viagra - Pfizer
FaceBook - Zuc
better hoovers - dyson