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A single researcher is rarely productive on their own. Effective research requires a tight network of likeminded individuals and support structure. If the numb
by relaxing 6y ago
A single researcher is rarely productive on their own. Effective research requires a tight network of likeminded individuals and support structure.
If the number of corporations needing new discoveries keeps growing but the funding is fixed, that means either the researchers are spread thin or there’s a centralization of research that has a hard time transitioning into the wild. (Both situations exist, and it sucks.)
- eru 6y agoReplace 'single researcher' with 'a fixed size research group' in my comment. Your argument about a minimum size research group for productivity is interesting. I am not quite sure whether that means we should normalise by population size, though.