Wayne Enterprises was very wealthy, but perhaps many people knew that assets and liquid capital were two different things.
Liquid capital, put simply, was cash on hand. Many people might own cars and houses, which all counted as assets. If you included their cars and homes, many people were millionaires. But when it came to liquid funds they could actually use, most people did not have that much.
Wayne Enterprises was no different. Any company that existed in the real world was constrained by liquid capital. Making many aggressive investments at once and draining the company's available funds was extremely dangerous. Many people might have heard the term "broken cash flow chain," but they might not understand what it meant.
In more everyday terms, it was robbing Peter to pay Paul. Sooner or later, there would be nothing left to take from Peter. It was like using one credit card to pay off another—sooner or later, there would come a day when you could not pay it back.
So what Wayne Enterprises needed now was not new assets, but a way to immediately convert assets into cash or obtain a large amount of liquid capital.
If Bruce invented a new technology and wanted to monetize it, he had two options. One was to use Wayne Enterprises' industrial advantages to put it into civilian use and earn a great deal of money.
But the problem was that the process from investing in production resources, to manufacturing, to sales was very long, and the returns could not be estimated with much accuracy. If he drained Wayne Enterprises' other funds before the investment started generating returns, poor returns could easily cause the cash flow chain to break.
The other option was to sell the technology. That was a quick way to turn it