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A European Research Council report suggests 79% of projects they fund “achieved a major scientific advance”, & only 1% make no contribution. Also, that they fund mostly “high risk” work I don’t know what “high risk” means if almost e’thing is succeeding:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05325-4?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&sf191358728=1 …
At risk of what? Not succeeding? Sounds like they have about a 1% chance of not succeeding (or 21%, by the stricter standard). Very low risk.
Reading between the lines it sounds like the "risk" is that assessment of proposals is based on project, not researcher's track record? The old "giving you money is a risk because we've never given you money" trap :)
Maybe that’s what they mean, but it’s not what “risk” means.
Presumably they mean that in 79% the paperwork is completely in order, in 20% of cases the paperwork is acceptable and in 1% of cases something goes wrong with the paperwork.
I think if we only look at the 19% breakthrough, thus 81% non-breakthrough is a bit "riskier". I think by making contact you get an incrementation contribution. Where "advances" (+50%) seems like Ruthian OBP. Even Mike Trout has single digits home run rates...
I wonder if they have something in mind like this paulg essay about startups http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html ... could be applicable depending on where you calibrate the majorness of your breakthrough
As a grantee: one aims super-high and admits in the proposal that this level of success is unlikely ("high risk"). At the same time, intermediate/alternate results are also very interesting and almost guaranteed. Plus, outside of the proposal, there's the unexpected.
For more details using my case as a particular example, see pages 12-13 on my proposal (which I share online), sections "Risk/gain assessment" and " Action plan associated with the identified risks": https://www.uv.es/gaita/pdf/ERC_CoG_2014_B2_20-05.pdf …
This is discussed among European researchers all the time here and there. The only explanation I have is that "high risk" means that most likely the project won't be immediately useful for the society ("make your iphone better in 2 years") not that it won't work.
It's high risk of not getting funding from the ERC.
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