Author: isabel.c.thompson@gmail.com
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7 steps to improve the innovation process
George Heilmeier (ex-Director of DARPA) argued for a “No Excuse” policy for tech transfer. Could this help get more research out of the lab?
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Forget publish or perish, have you thought about “startup or perish”?
Metrics are powerful, and the risk of unintended consequences is huge. Here’s a provocative but not crazy outcome I see on the horizon.
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Want breakthrough science? Fund small teams
To fund the kind of science that’s going to supplant current ideas, you have to have a taste for risk. Why? Because the teams that disrupt science are small, non-networked and non-conformist. They don’t look like safe bets, and that’s the point.