Short - term development can take care of itself because it has
immediate economic rewards, but can not substitute for serious long term applied research (as an historic example, development of semiconductors was long term applied research while improving vacuum tubes was short - term development).
According to a 2007 research paper by the credit rating company, Experian ¸ this tendency to be «financially shortsighted (myopic), favoring more
immediate rewards rather than financial benefits in the future, leads to poor
economic decision making.»