From Principles to Practice

摘要

John Munro said that Chris Martin's perspective on how the private sector incentivizes research was missing; other participants, however, felt that this concept was captured under the "incentives" rubric. Liam Breslin raised a question about the distinction between advanced research and other kinds of research, to which Francesca La Torre replied that advanced research was top-down research that was driven by researchers without end users asking for a product or asking directly for an outcome. She noted that implementing applied research was easy because end users help to frame the research question. On the other hand, basic research is not directly tied to an outcome; therefore, the question is how to get basic research implemented. Patrick Mallejacq said that communication is important and that sometimes people's behavior does not seem rational. That is, people are presented with a solution that is cheaper and easy to implement, but they do not apply it because of disincentives. He thought that sociologists and economists should be involved in the process.