It follows that since the potential benefits for society are roughly predictable, basic research can be evaluated prospectively; this does not lessen the "basic status" of either the research or the scientist.
The academics looked at the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the period 1914-2002 and found no indication that trends reverse at the 61.8% level, or indeed at any predictable milestone.This research may well fall on stony ground.
Some of these include higher and more predictable federal research funding, shorter graduate and postdoc training periods, greater use of staff scientists, and better career training for students and postdocs.
In the long term, good public education and infrastructure, a solid judicial system, investment in basic research, predictable regulations, non-extortionary tax levels and so forth are all important, but that's not going to help get fast-food wages above poverty level anytime soon.
This makes predictable arising training, research, development and innovation needs to meet new challenges.
And its response was predictable: As a research agency driven by peer review, NSF chose experts in the field to examine the issue.
"The news channels have always seen their revenue driven by major news events, many of which are unplanned, but elections are an exception because they are predictable," Derek Baine, a research director at SNL Kagan market analysis company, recently explained to U.S. News.
Financing agencies demand safe research and predictable results.
And the infrastructure is close to the same - research universities, predictable economic system, a path to liquidity, a stable legal system and 24/7 utilities.
