Well, you'd get my money for a ray-bending materials research problem that will eventually turn out to be easy to integrate on an organic substrate, opening the

Well, you'd get my money for a ray-bending materials research problem that will eventually turn out to be easy to integrate on an organic substrate, opening the way for silicon-on-organic optoelectronic devices. But in all seriousness, there are different types of research, no? Some research leads to new technology and some is verification, repeatability and just plain knowledge discovery. There might be some way of rigging up the system so that people who fund potentially patent creating research could get a cut of the royalties. And the reproducibility area would be great for a large number of people especially if such things are kept track of ("This particular study has only been done once"). If we can get people to trust repeated studies more than not repeated that site will help better clarify emergent research trends/topics.