“Funding agencies the world over are interested in maximizing their return on investment in the scientific world. Indeed, the European Research Council recently

“Funding agencies the world over are interested in maximizing their return on investment in the scientific world. Indeed, the European Research Council recently invested $1.7 million in a program to study serendipity—the role of luck in scientific discovery—and how it can be exploited to improve funding outcomes.” What came out of this study? The article left me hanging.