Plausibly, the key missing input is administrative capacity with: openness to fund peculiar, high-risk projects; enough sense to not fund exclusively crackpots; enough bureaucratic expertise to make things run smoothly; enough hatred of bureaucracy to mostly get out of the way
I've been impressed with @tylercowen's Emergent Ventures program for its initial work along these lines. I hope it scales up (at a sustainable pace!) and that other similar programs emerge.
Very dependent on the good taste of the person/team choosing projects to fund.
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Yeah I wasn't really suggesting that researcher-for-hire was a valid model for you, just caveating my "research in startups never works" with the one class of exception. (Although it's not really an exception, because it's services work, so scales linearly not exponentially)
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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