I'm not sure if the US is the same as the UK, but here there are tax incentives [1] to classify, or interpret as much engineering time as possible as R&D. [1]

I'm not sure if the US is the same as the UK, but here there are tax incentives [1] to classify, or interpret as much engineering time as possible as R&D. [1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/corporation-tax-research-and-development-tax-relief-for-large-companies https://www.gov.uk/guidance/corporation-tax-research-and-dev...