Accelerating Scientific Progress through Open Science
William GunnHead of Academic [email protected]
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Research is complicated
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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!
Black Box
Step out of the heavy-weight institutional process into open models.
Get more eyes and hands on the problem – and on the data!
Get better data to agile teams on what's working faster, publish openly and more rapidly.
How do we rapidly iterate on research?
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