There is a program that is called SBIR ... small business Innovation something or other. It was designed to help small business that have a creative idea and want to pursue it. I have applied many times and have been turned down many times only to see my ideas get marketed by big business. I know of no small business that ever gets one of these grants. Their definition of small business is 500 employees or less. That isn't exactly small in my books. Yet I see year after year the same companies get funded over and over again. I had an idea once for a software system for the hearing impaired. One of the reviewers used the term brilliant ... yet I was turned down ... 2 years later I saw my idea peddled by a huge corporation all over ... ya that is how it works .. sadly ..

By the way, has no one figured out that trickle down didn't work in the early 1900's and doesn't work today either.