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For example in academia, being "scooped" is a very often discussed and a very real threat. In the research community, hard-working people that are excellent at
by miloshh 18y ago
For example in academia, being "scooped" is a very often discussed and a very real threat. In the research community, hard-working people that are excellent at execution are a dime a dozen, and ideas that have not been done before are a really scarce resource. In the industry it might be less obvious, but it's still quite possible for a small company with good ideas AND good execution to be killed by a large competitor that decides to reimplement their product, but with 200 engineers.
- bbgm 18y agoThe fear of being scooped is more a function of the "pubish or perish" model and the reward model than anything else. Half the times someone gets beaten to a publication, it's because they were not the only ones with the idea in the first place. The most interesting scientific problems people are trying to work on are not unique anyway. The effort should be on changing the reward model, rather than artificially create problems like scooping.