vansig wrote:
vansig, what you say may be true for commercial research where the goal is to patent, but isn’t the case for much of basic academic research, which often doesn’t have direct commercial application.
I’ve experienced the opposite: extreme paranoia and protectiveness within academics, because there are limited research dollars to go around.
There are a lot of factors which reduce collaboration and have a negative impact on discovery. You have inspired me to add Taleb’s “Peer cruelty” essay to the site.
Also think it could use a fresh forum thread.
