If we had included in BOI a clause that allow for THAI R&D start-up enterprises to receive 'benefits' as FOREIGN and 'relative' companies, we would have gone some distance.

But being a plain and common varieties Thai, all we ever get are pains and moanings.

I have come to rely more on "self" not even support from "friends". How many times we ask for help from friends and they are busy? ;-)