Academic Risk Taking

Benefits

Risks & contraindications

Comparisons

Highlighted claims

• The article presents boldness and moonshot thinking as essential to progress. — Losing the Nobel Prize and the Edges of Scientific Knowledge
• Academia can be structurally hostile to risk because researchers often receive their first government grant relatively late. — Losing the Nobel Prize and the Edges of Scientific Knowledge
• The academic system is described as having some negative features of business without comparable entrepreneurial upside. — Losing the Nobel Prize and the Edges of Scientific Knowledge
• Academic careers are unlikely to produce great wealth unless a scientist wins a Nobel Prize or achieves rare recognition. — Losing the Nobel Prize and the Edges of Scientific Knowledge