What José Luis Ricón thinks about innovation

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Engineer and writer at Nintil, where he has spent years reading the empirical literature on how science is funded and organised — grant peer review, funding lotteries, whether ideas are getting harder to find — and reporting what the evidence does and does not support.

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2 dated positions, 2020, in their own words. Our reading of what José Luis Ricón has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 20 Jun 2020

   Our readingEvery scientific field eventually exhausts itself: progress within a paradigm follows an S-curve and then runs out.

   Their wordsA given field or paradigm will yield a sigmoid-like pattern and eventually it will be exhausted.

   ↗Science — The Ending and Endless Frontier(s)nintil.com 1st of 2 in this piece

3. 20 Jun 2020

   Our readingThe stock of useful scientific knowledge is bounded rather than endless.

   optimism

   Their wordsI admit I lean towards the bounded view because the former sounds overly optimistic.

   ↗Science — The Ending and Endless Frontier(s)nintil.com 2nd of 2 in this piece