Adding up all the life-sciences incentives that Florida doled out, the total far exceeded a billion dollars.
Hinderaker's development of innovative programs in business administration and biomedical sciences created incentive for enough students to enroll at Riverside to keep the campus open.
There is no need to worry that private funding of science withdraws the incentive to publish - publishing, claims Kealey, is the whole incentive.
But local authorities view pubs through an outdated prism – many have prioritised shiny tech and science businesses with incentives rather than backing reliable but unglamorous hospitality.
A truly enlightened trade policy would involve increasing federal support for science; creating financial incentives for firms to pursue technological innovation; building up pre-school and mentoring initiatives; expanding scholarships and visas; etc.
This would reward liberal-arts schools, whose student populations tend to run heavy with English, history and social science majors, with an incentive to expand science and engineering programs.
These trends give computer science faculty a strong incentive to invest in learning relevant biological concepts and collaborate with biology faculty.
David Hull, in his (1988) argues that because the overall structure of reward and punishment in the sciences is a powerful incentive not to cheat, further epistemological analysis of the sciences is unnecessary.
Restructure the incentives in science.
But what are the roles of prizes – as rewards or as incentives – in science?
