And, of course, those demands lead to a let-down after release, which requires a lengthy recovery period before the participants can reasonably be expected to tackle a new job. Working in the same market all the time, all they find themselves doing is taking advantage of advancing technologies to improve the cost and performance of the same old product line. First, since it's time-sharing its services over several clients, it's effectively working for multiple manufacturers in multiple markets. It should be more difficult for boredom to set in. Second, the relationship is changed.
Decisions are more likely to be made on economic bases, and less on bureaucratic or political.
Perhaps through better understanding of the process of innovation. Balancing the pull of market and the push of technology as only the market-aware technologist rationally can. Or using the tools of the professional inventor. The professional inventor always has a dozen projects going. When he hits a roadblock on one, he simply shifts to another, lets his subconscious work on the block, and when the solution comes, simply shifts back.