Chiara Franzoni | Understanding Risk in Science
Bio: Dr. Chiara Franzoni is Associate Professor at the School of Management and Director of the Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the MIP-Graduate School of Business. Her research focuses on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Dr. Franzoni's researchhas been supported by the DG-Research of the European Commission and by research programs of the Sloan Fundation. She has served in expert panels for policy making in science and technology. Her research has been published in numerous journals including Science, Research Policy, Journal of Management Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Nature Biotechnology, and PNAS.
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Summary: Dr. Chiara Franzoni has built a career researching the economics of science. Improving the funding system, she hypothesizes, requires us to first establish a common understanding of "risk" in science. She recently co-authored a landmark paper to address this keystone issue.
She co-authored the definitive paper on crowdfunding for science. What surprised her about that process: pic.twitter.com/a9gDGAa4ON
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"We think science [funding] is overly conservative, and has become more so over time." pic.twitter.com/uI1FDvrPy9
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Why don't we have more experiments on alternate ways to distribute science funding?
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The culture of the funding agencies. pic.twitter.com/ZMsLckbfpz
"I wish that science would learn from the entrepreneurial landscape how to create that sort of vibe, where people help each other a lot and they go for dreams and wild ideas." pic.twitter.com/LGDzZtzplj
— science better (@scibetter) March 26, 2021