Re:Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 7...
by cs702 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @12:00PM
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I would borrow from the "20% free for personal research" deal Google offers software developers: "spend 20% of your time on anything you want." Gmail, for example, was born as a 20%-spare-time project. (The creator of Gmail, Paul Buchheit, is now at Y Combinator.)
People who have dedicated their life to science should get more than 20%. Say, 50%: "Spend 50% of money/time/people on the funded project, 50% however you want."
I think my 50/50 idea would work quite well. Scientists still would have to demonstrate and justify the value of near-term projects to get funding, but would also get the resources they need to fund long-term projects with impossible-to-estimate present value.
People who have dedicated their life to science should get more than 20%. Say, 50%: "Spend 50% of money/time/people on the funded project, 50% however you want."
I think my 50/50 idea would work quite well. Scientists still would have to demonstrate and justify the value of near-term projects to get funding, but would also get the resources they need to fund long-term projects with impossible-to-estimate present value.