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Doesn't sound like you're doing any actual science there. What about the guy feeding the scientists or housing them, what about the government for providing roads and sewage? That's like putting Steve Jobs' name on all the patents that Apple produced.

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"Securing the funding" is much closer to the work than "providing roads and sewage".

In most sciences, to actually secure the funding, you need to argue for why the problem is important, why the team has a shot at solving it, and what possible approaches look promising. Then you need to actually advise the team in supporting the work.

Did they? (Put his name in all of Apples patents?)

Steve Jobs has 1114 patents. Apple has 16240.

so yes.

I've worked at at least one company where the managers would routinely name themselves as "inventors" on patent applications, where their subordinates were the ones actually doing the "inventing."

I've worked at one, too.

That felt... disheartening.

But also the best motivator to stop selling your brain to heartless corps and go build your own stuff

Building my own stuff: definitely.

Doing all the admin work, all the capital raising, etc. needed to build my own stuff: I suspect that this would kill me.

Joining a nice startup: been there, done that... will do it again :)

The true incubators are the ones that you where inside all too long

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