Such an employer would have to tolerate high risk, frequent failure, high cost, low "productivity", and slow unpredictable progress toward financially unrewarding intermediate results... and do so for years without administrative interruption.
Unless the innovators are somehow overlooked by the omnipresent bureaucrats and bookkeepers -- e.g. working in a small lab hidden deep in a very large organization disinclined to optimize costs/profit -- I don't see any established organizational model that could sustain innovators like Nicolai Tesla or Kurt Godel.
Unless the innovators are somehow overlooked by the omnipresent bureaucrats and bookkeepers -- e.g. working in a small lab hidden deep in a very large organization disinclined to optimize costs/profit -- I don't see any established organizational model that could sustain innovators like Nicolai Tesla or Kurt Godel.
Maybe a bored billionaire?