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The economics of discovery, with Ben Reinhardt
In this episode, Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Ben Reinhardt, founder of Speculative Technologies, to examine how science gets funded in the United States and why the current system leaves much to be desired. They dissect the outdated taxonomy of basic, applied, and development research, categories encoded into law that fail to capture how actual breakthrough science happens.
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www.complexsystemspodcast.com/the-economics-of-discovery-with-ben-reinhardt/
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