Quality and collaboration, not growth, should drive research institutions
Discovering new knowledge and improving human life, not driving up grant totals, should be the real missions of research institutions.
by Brad Schwartz
Jun 28, 2017
3 minutes
The $2 billion increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health that Congress recently approved reflects society’s great expectations for the biomedical sciences. I fear that three unproductive practices that the scientific community has slipped into will undermine this support unless we take action to address these self-inflicted threats.
The crux of the problem is that, over the years, many leaders of research institutions have treated research as a volume business and focused more on money and operational size than on the discovery of new knowledge. Success has
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