That's certainly how Xerox PARC is described in some of the tales of their classic discoveries/inventions/Demos.
Certain decades of Bell Labs, too, have that glimmer of a bunch of the smartest people allowed to explore stuff they cared about with only the oversight from fellow technical people.
I've even heard Microsoft Research can still sometimes feel a bit like that, though with all the pressures of academia like grant finding and patent applications and other such hustles.
Certain decades of Bell Labs, too, have that glimmer of a bunch of the smartest people allowed to explore stuff they cared about with only the oversight from fellow technical people.
I've even heard Microsoft Research can still sometimes feel a bit like that, though with all the pressures of academia like grant finding and patent applications and other such hustles.