> As such, the authors find, science, technology and innovation research is not focused on the world’s most pressing problems including taking climate action, a

> As such, the authors find, science, technology and innovation research is not focused on the world’s most pressing problems including taking climate action, addressing complex underlying social issues, tackling hunger and promoting good health and wellbeing. Should it be? Are those actually things that would benefit from additional expensive research? - we already know how to do fission power, and how to get rid of any waste (if the politicians wouldn't forbid it); there's a lot of research money already going to fusion power; both direct solar (photovoltaic) and indirect (wind) power are getting cheaper very rapidly as they're done more; hydro and geothermal are already things in places where they're a thing - social research isn't hampered by lack of funds, but by ideological uniformity of researchers and "I want to believe" (seriously, it's amazing how much lasting real-world harm communism and more generally "the entire world is just a struggle between groups defined along such-and-such axis" cause ever time they escape from the ivory tower) - hunger is downstream of social issues - good health and wellbeing looks like it's mostly about infectious diseases? Aside from high-end research for new things (eg covid), that'd be either poverty (social issues) or trust in medical authorities (also social issues) or maybe outside medical folks being banned from places (social issues again)