Ideas tagged with logistics

Reducing the peer review burden and raising grant success rates by passing a simple law

Pass a law that limits the total dollars that a research organization can request from the federal government to three times the average dollars they received in previous years. This would immediately change the average success rate of grants to one in three; a major improvement from current rat...

By Scott Reed

Piracy and (Digital) Economy - Beneficial side-effects of outlawed acts and black market economies for societies.

There are various pointers in recent research that suggest that product piracy as a means of distribution is a mayor factor in not only innovation but also education and economic advancement. Independent studies also show positive effects for the establishment of the class of goods that have be...

By Gernot Hausar

Dronebox: The evolution of the mailbox.

Dronebox is a network of physical spaces in public places (although there could be some private ones), where deliveries can be made to by a drone (or something else when it fits). With this, customers can order to their favorite provider to deliver to the closest Dronebox available. In order to ...

By Luis A Barroso