Does it make money to open a restaurant with an area of ??tens of square meters and a capital of 200,000 yuan, or do scientific research in a research institute make money?

For you, it would be better to open a restaurant. Judging from your tone, you don’t have patents or other high-tech technologies. If you set up a research institute on such a basis and invest only a few hundred thousand yuan, you will definitely lose everything. To be honest, the risks of engaging in technology are too high, especially after the technology level has developed to such a high level today, it is extremely difficult to achieve technological breakthroughs.