[{"id":69,"title":"Reducing the peer review burden and raising grant success rates by passing a simple law","sha":"0b34a8a607005992056b4f4eb8fed76c","user_id":267,"state":"published","body":"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 rates. Scientists would be free to spend more time in the lab and less time writing and reviewing grants.\r\n\r\nHow would this work? If an institution did not generate an internal screen for limiting applications, their grants would be assigned a random number and only the appropriate fraction would be sent on to the respective funding agency. Smart institutions would establish priorities that matched to their values (e.g. supporting young scientists or multidisciplinary science). \r\n\r\nAsking institutions to screen grant applications based on their values would be a big change. But it is reasonable to ask institutions to share the burden of peer review and to play a roll in the process of selecting the best ideas. Regardless of how institutions responded, the burden of peer review would drop. Scientists would spend less time in DC, less time at the computer, and more time in the lab. ","created_at":"2015-02-19T19:05:06.450Z","updated_at":"2023-12-12T21:01:35.952Z","zenodo_id":23159,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15533","subject":null,"tags":["research","researchers","academia","publishing","economy","science","society","occupation","science_policy","workforce","government","logistics","market","universities","creativity"],"vote_count":10,"view_count":1,"score":10.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":64,"title":"Piracy and (Digital) Economy - Beneficial side-effects of outlawed acts and black market economies for societies. ","sha":"2c6e126f305abe33c168c66d25be24f8","user_id":244,"state":"published","body":"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 been pirated on local markets. \r\n\r\nThis is especially true if looked at in combination with weak copyright protection mechanisms.The book market in Germany in Early Modern Europe - for example- could not have had such an explosive growth in comparison to the book market Great Britain at the same time without widespread and cheap illegal reprints available for a low price, no effective censorship nor copyright protection (Eisenstein_1980, Gieseke_1998). While Great Britain had a strict copyright regime in place around 1710, Germany did not establish a common copyright until around 1830. This lead to a wide-spread distribution of knowledge, a highly skilled workforce, a vibrant civil society and to Germany closing up and surpassing other industrial nations in the 19th century (Höffner_2010).\r\n\r\nThis research idea aims at linking these findings to the recent debate on internet piracy, copyright protections, pricing of goods and measures to foster innovation and economic growth.\r\n\r\nElizabeth_Eisenstein,1980:The.Printing.Press.as.an.Agent.of.Change.\r\nMichael_Gieseke,1998:Der.Buchdruck.in.der.frühen.Neuzeit.(Printing.in.Early.Modern.Europe)\r\nEckhard_Höffner,2010:Geschichte.und.Wesen.des.Urheberrechts.(History.of.Copyright.and.Related.Rights)","created_at":"2015-02-19T10:20:08.942Z","updated_at":"2018-05-21T14:50:35.520Z","zenodo_id":23127,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15519","subject":null,"tags":["piracy","software","torrent","information","data_exchange","knowledge","history_of_ideas","education","workforce","distribution_channels","logistics","piracy_of_goods","black_market_economy","product_piracy"],"vote_count":8,"view_count":1,"score":8.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":395,"title":"Dronebox: The evolution of the mailbox.","sha":"e93dce9f33bed5ec1ef729ce3dd5dfab","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"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 make this possible, the customer must allow its cell phone to provide its current location. \r\n\r\nOnce an order is placed, the location of the Dronebox where the delivery will be made and ETA are provided to the customer along with a code. Access to the goods will be possible through a key pad where the customer must enter the code provided by the seller of the product. It is believed that this idea could help boost business using delivery making them more agile and effective. \r\n\r\n","created_at":"2017-07-26T20:58:34.682Z","updated_at":"2017-07-28T06:00:32.090Z","zenodo_id":835600,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.835600","subject":null,"tags":["logistics","parcel","faster delivery","real time localization","drone delivery"],"vote_count":0,"view_count":1,"score":0.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]