83
What Would It Take To Recreate Bell Labs?
(hackaday.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Articles like this always tend to overlook the fact that Bell Labs wasn't unique in its time. And other companies had very similar labs running. A famous example is Xerox Labs which invented the computer mouse and graphical windowing, among other things.
Google had this vibe too, prior to going public.
Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center)