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I think your inherent bias knowing only about your field is distorting your r&d expectations. Can you imagine a private sector narrative that could give rise t
by nzjrs 10y ago
I think your inherent bias knowing only about your field is distorting your r&d expectations.
Can you imagine a private sector narrative that could give rise to CRISPR? That's the sort of blue sky r&d that tenure is designed to protect - basic science r&d is impossible to value.
- gravypod 10y agoI could imagine it, yes. That's the point of R&D: you hire people, ask them to make something that will change the future, they show you continual results and you forward that to your investors so they feel good. This goes the same way as for the developments of technologies such as RF transceivers. It was a magical world changing discovery made by a few private inventors. Is there something making this impossible from happening again? There's lots of research funded by private companies. That being said, I'd say that it is possible to do the same research without tenure. Are you saying that you'd never be allowed to research something as important as CRISPR technology had you not received tenure? If that is the case then that's a problem; if researchers cannot research certain things then there is a larger problem in the academic world and I'd need to be convinced that tenure is the best solution for it.