What is the equivalent of making a billion dollars in academia? Publishing a Nature paper is cool but routine. Why are extraordinary papers mixed with merely great ones? Would being able to separate them increase scientists' propensity to take risk?
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Too large delay and effects are too uncertain! Imagine if only one billion dollar company with a maximum of three co-founders was allowed every year
I disagree. You publish in Nature along the way and are well-known in the community. The number of unicorns is comparable with the number of awards. The founding teams are small.
