Carson, Richard T.; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Shrader, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Science funding agencies such as the NIH, NSF, and their counterparts around the world are often criticized for being … too conservative, funding incremental innovations over more radical but riskier projects. One explanation for their … conducted with a large sample of active biomedical researchers, we find that--in contrast to funding agencies …