Is it just me or do Hollywood bad guys throw around comically low numbers? Like, the putative price for the research program behind Jurassic Park wouldn’t even fund the CGI dinos to say nothing about the real ones.
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that's uncanny - leaving aside infrastructure, where lab techs and such much much cheaper at the time?
It's possible the techs were part of overhead, i.e., supporting infrastructure provided by the university. (It was tough to find, and I made the mistake of not bookmarking it, so I won't try to dig it up right now. In a footnote found on G. Books, I believe.)
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One of the many factors that explains the explosion of research costs is that grants now are expected to massively subsidize all the administrators (whose numbers have exploded) - 30-40% overhead is considered normal.
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Stanford is around 90% and smaller universities are in the 35-60% range today.
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