Research efficiency: Clean up the waste
* Academic institutions that learn to manage themselves better will achieve more with less funding in coming years.
* The main sources of inefficiencies are a wrong understanding of autonomy, weak leadership and a lack of strategic thinking when selecting research areas.
* Adapting concepts from private business will help academic institutions to address inefficiencies and get faculty members back to teaching and research.
For more information: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7392/full/484027a.html
Research efficiency: Perverse incentives
Scientists may portray themselves as not being motivated by money, but they and the institutions where they work respond in spades to financial opportunities.
* Science is full of incentives that encourage bad financial choices, such as expanding labs and hiring too many temporary scientists.
* These incentives hurt both individual scientists and society as a whole, which gets minimal return on its investment when someone is trained for a field with no career prospects.
* The way forward is to fix incentives that are damaging the system, by considering their true social and personal cost.
For more information: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7392/full/484029a.html
Research efficiency: Turn the scientific method on ourselves
It is time to turn the scientific method on ourselves. In our attempts to reform the institutions of science, we should adhere to the same empirical standards that we insist on when evaluating research results. We already know how: by subjecting proposed reforms to a prospective, randomized controlled experiment. Retrospective analyses using selected samples are often little more than veiled attempts to justify past choices.
For more information: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7392/full/484031a.html
* Academic institutions that learn to manage themselves better will achieve more with less funding in coming years.
* The main sources of inefficiencies are a wrong understanding of autonomy, weak leadership and a lack of strategic thinking when selecting research areas.
* Adapting concepts from private business will help academic institutions to address inefficiencies and get faculty members back to teaching and research.
For more information: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7392/full/484027a.html
Research efficiency: Perverse incentives
Scientists may portray themselves as not being motivated by money, but they and the institutions where they work respond in spades to financial opportunities.
* Science is full of incentives that encourage bad financial choices, such as expanding labs and hiring too many temporary scientists.
* These incentives hurt both individual scientists and society as a whole, which gets minimal return on its investment when someone is trained for a field with no career prospects.
* The way forward is to fix incentives that are damaging the system, by considering their true social and personal cost.
For more information: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7392/full/484029a.html
Research efficiency: Turn the scientific method on ourselves
It is time to turn the scientific method on ourselves. In our attempts to reform the institutions of science, we should adhere to the same empirical standards that we insist on when evaluating research results. We already know how: by subjecting proposed reforms to a prospective, randomized controlled experiment. Retrospective analyses using selected samples are often little more than veiled attempts to justify past choices.
For more information: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7392/full/484031a.html
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