# Why hasn’t Bell Labs been replicated? # Why hasn’t Bell Labs been replicated Is this actually true - could you argue that PARC was a replication of Bell Labs? * [[Regulation drove many of Bell Labs’ actions]] * [[Conversation with Daniel Windham 31/10/2019]] ### Answer My answer is that no R&D labs *working on physical technology* meet the conditions necessary to create a high-quality corporate R&D lab. [[Healthy corporate R+D requires a trifecta of conditions]]. Note that [[AI research is an exception to the decline of corporate R+D]]. [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Why+hasn’t+Bell+Labs+been+replicated) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Why+hasn’t+Bell+Labs+been+replicated)