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- Grant funding - Tenure requirements - Job duties (both requirements and limitations) - Elimination of corporate skunk works like PARC - Credentialism - A
by anonymouskimmer 4y ago
- Grant funding
- Tenure requirements
- Job duties (both requirements and limitations)
- Elimination of corporate skunk works like PARC
- Credentialism
- A "Pain point" focus would tend to be more incremental than truly disruptive
On the good side there may be some decrease of disruptive inventions and discoveries because we are also focusing on eliminating the externalities of current and previous inventions and discoveries. It's a lot easier to make wildly new things if you aren't worried about their side effects.
- feraloink 4y ago>Elimination of corporate skunk works like PARC This is a big problem. PARC, Bell Labs, IBM Research are the first that come to mind. Same is true for mostly government-funded initiatives like the one where Marc Andreessen invented Mosaic browser, that eventually became Netscape Navigator. I don't recall the project name. Do we even do that anymore?
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoWe still have DARPA. We also have ARPA-E, ARPA-H, and HSARPA. A variety of DOE national labs and core facilities (including NCSA where Mosaic was developed) still exist and are funded. We may need more to take up the slack of the corporate research facilities.
- urthor 4y agoRemind me, in the history of the physical sciences, how many "groundbreaking breakthroughs," came from academics teaching undergraduates? My mind is genuinely struggling... Certainly not Curie, Einstein, Fleming worked in a hospital. Maybe the problem is... Undergraduates!