We do not want to compete with those who pay us to play. We will produce the knowledge that is needed to develop products. Companies which are sponsors of Starlab will be first in line to license the information for development into a product or to join in a spin-off. Even laboratories themselves, our competition must be able to work with us. That is something we learned from the MediaLab .
Good labs create their own competition and clever laboratories charge for it.
In our case we were charged for it by the MediaLab . And we were grateful for it. Within a short time, research will become an intricate mosaic of relations and it will become very hard to ascertain where one lab begins and another ends.