> I would rather this be read by a few people motivated to take action than by a broad audience who will find it merely interesting. In that vein, if you find yourself wanting to share this on Twitter or Hacker News, consider instead sharing it with one or two friends who will take action on it. Thank you for indulging me!
I'm glad of course it was shared here. As a distillation - I think the author's theme lies with enabling more _researchers_ rather than business people to take moonshots and do foundational knowledge building and discovery that redefines a field and then focus on commercialization from a birds eye view by technically capable visionaries.
This is the SBIR [1] model (also a US Gov requirement to fund small business research for any federal agency with >$100M in funding), the Bell Labs model (which yeilded amazing foundational work like UNIX and the transistor and was a direct result of AT&T's monopoly and excess resources), and perhaps even the YC model (though that one is obviously focused on a shorter horizon and more on commercializing existing tech and more rarely on foundational research).
I've personally thought about this problem a lot and done this at a small scale and would love to expand upon it. https://augmentedlabs.org Would love to hear others experiences and thoughts.
> I would rather this be read by a few people motivated to take action than by a broad audience who will find it merely interesting. In that vein, if you find yourself wanting to share this on Twitter or Hacker News, consider instead sharing it with one or two friends who will take action on it. Thank you for indulging me!
I'm glad of course it was shared here. As a distillation - I think the author's theme lies with enabling more _researchers_ rather than business people to take moonshots and do foundational knowledge building and discovery that redefines a field and then focus on commercialization from a birds eye view by technically capable visionaries.
This is the SBIR [1] model (also a US Gov requirement to fund small business research for any federal agency with >$100M in funding), the Bell Labs model (which yeilded amazing foundational work like UNIX and the transistor and was a direct result of AT&T's monopoly and excess resources), and perhaps even the YC model (though that one is obviously focused on a shorter horizon and more on commercializing existing tech and more rarely on foundational research).
I've personally thought about this problem a lot and done this at a small scale and would love to expand upon it. https://augmentedlabs.org Would love to hear others experiences and thoughts.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Business_Innovation_Re...