startup sci 2012: disrupting scholarly communication to accelerate scientific progress
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Disrupting Scholarly Communication to Accelerate Scientific Progress
William GunnHead of Academic [email protected]
@mrgunn
Research is complicated
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Innovation is hard
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http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem/
Can we shorten the research cycle?
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$31.2B ????12 years
The average age at first R01 grant is now 42, up from 34 in 1980.jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/98/20/1436.full
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$31.2B ????12 months!
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How do you know whose model is the best? - Citations take too long.
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