I will cheat and list two ideas, plus one irrelevant one.
First, let’s start with some large-scale descriptive statistics of practices!
How do different labs organize and manage their staff?
How do different editors manage their journal and peer review process?
How do different grant reviewers pick grants?
The goal is to see if there are obvious best practices; what kinds of stuff is correlated with good outcomes? This would be some kind of large-scale survey.
Second, I’ve always wanted to know more about the political economy of R&D. How do governments decide how much to spend on R&D? I’m not sure the best way to study this though.
Third, my dream research project, after we have sorted out the more important stuff, is to use the decadal Sight and Sound Greatest Movies of All Time poll to study how people’s perception of artistic greatness changes over time. Do people change their minds? Or is it all about new (younger) critics embracing newer films?
If you were given a million dollar grant, which question in innovation policy would you want to answer and what might that dataset look like?
I will cheat and list two ideas, plus one irrelevant one.
First, let’s start with some large-scale descriptive statistics of practices!
How do different labs organize and manage their staff?
How do different editors manage their journal and peer review process?
How do different grant reviewers pick grants?
The goal is to see if there are obvious best practices; what kinds of stuff is correlated with good outcomes? This would be some kind of large-scale survey.
Second, I’ve always wanted to know more about the political economy of R&D. How do governments decide how much to spend on R&D? I’m not sure the best way to study this though.
Third, my dream research project, after we have sorted out the more important stuff, is to use the decadal Sight and Sound Greatest Movies of All Time poll to study how people’s perception of artistic greatness changes over time. Do people change their minds? Or is it all about new (younger) critics embracing newer films?