I think you might be trying to apply the concept at a wrong granularity. Yes, there is often an iterative combination of the fundamental and applied, but then you need to be classifying each iterative step, rather than the white sequence, and the point is that it’s a “Pasteur-Edison” iteration, not a “Bohr-Edison” one. Almost any new fundamental advance has to go through the “Edison” phase as the technology readiness grows, before it becomes practical. This is true whether the advance came from “Bohr” quadrant, it “Pasteur” one. The distinction is whether you are mindful of the potential applications when you were embarking on doing the fundamental part (“Pasteur”), or whether the practical implications were only figured out after the fact (“Bohr”). The distinction becomes particularly pronounced when the research effort is only proposed, and you are asking for funding.
I think you might be trying to apply the concept at a wrong granularity. Yes, there is often an iterative combination of the fundamental and applied, but then you need to be classifying each iterative step, rather than the white sequence, and the point is that it’s a “Pasteur-Edison” iteration, not a “Bohr-Edison” one. Almost any new fundamental advance has to go through the “Edison” phase as the technology readiness grows, before it becomes practical. This is true whether the advance came from “Bohr” quadrant, it “Pasteur” one. The distinction is whether you are mindful of the potential applications when you were embarking on doing the fundamental part (“Pasteur”), or whether the practical implications were only figured out after the fact (“Bohr”). The distinction becomes particularly pronounced when the research effort is only proposed, and you are asking for funding.