Unjerked E4 - Research and Development
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William Henderson and B. McGraw talk about Research and Development. Who funds it, and who does R&D? How do different countries approach it differently? Does it have any benefits for the greater economy? What about issues like corporate influence, P-hacking, and manipulated results?
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3:58 Global R&D by region
6:04 R&D as percent of GDP by country
10:35 funding vs performing entites by country
14:53 NIH definition of basic research
22:35 Percent of government spending by category by country
27:22 Academic research source of funds by Country
30:30 History of R&D funding in USA
34:03 US funding performer categories
36:44 US funding source categories
37:30 US R&D by industry
37:57 R&D intensity by industry
39:00 Basic vs applied vs development trends
40:45 Agencies within the federal government
42:18 Subjects funded by the government
43:40 National endowments of arts and humanities
55:55 DARPA created the internet
56:01 NASA spinoffs
58:35 Correlation between R&D and growth
1:00:15 Negative result bias
1:01:34 Tobacco industry funding research
1:01:40 Sugar industry funding research
1:03:23 Alzheimer’s research fraud
1:0543 Journal article paywalls
1:08:34 History of peer review
1:10:17 Accuracy peer review vs preprint
1:10:53 Public peer review
1:13:04 Stanford fired
1:18:14 Extent of p-hacking
1:24:11 Amazon 2022 expenses
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