@patrickc @michael_nielsen do you think this is linked to funding models becoming more directed and short-termist? ie grants come for a few years max, for projects with specific goals from the outset, less sustained (and undirected) work over years/decadeshttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/diminishing-returns-science/575665/?utm_source=twb …
Personally, I think it's due to lack of heterogeneity. Some short-term specific grants is good. All (or most) is bad. Want lots of very different approaches.
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Fully agree. Really hard for Research Councils to justify funding less directed and measurable research over long periods of time so perhaps not enough of it as a result. Private companies (Bell labs before, Google, Fb today) ironically seem to almost do more of it!
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