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High Risk High Reward Research

BRAIN Initiative: A Bold Venture Into Brain Science

James M. Gentile | Posted 04.05.2013 | Science
Read More: Science Funding, High-Risk High-Reward Research, Brain Science, Scientific Research, Neuroscience, Brain Initiative, Obama Brain Initiative, Science News
James M. Gentile

Launched with approximately $100 million in initial funding, BRAIN is a high-risk, high-reward effort that will provide basic but significant research insights in neuroscience and will have a major applied impact on health and human well-being far into the future.

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Prizing High-Risk, High-Reward Research

James M. Gentile | Posted 10.20.2012 | Science
Read More: Milner Prize, High-Risk High-Reward Research, Fundamental Physics Prize, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Scientific Research, High-Risk High-Reward Science, Schaefer Award, John P. Schaefer Award, Science News
James M. Gentile

In times of tight budgets, high-risk, high-reward research is typically under-funded and under-appreciated, because it can too easily be ridiculed for being outlandish or mistaken, although even wrong paths in science can be illuminating in profound ways.

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Green Energy Innovation: Building A National Commitment

James M. Gentile | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: American Energy Innovation Council, General Electric, High-Risk High-Reward Research, Kleiner Perkins, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Bank of America, George F. Will, Clean Energy, Scialog, National Science Foundation, James Fallows, Arpa-E, John Holdren, Ursula Burns, Steven Chu, Electric Cars, Department of Energy, Nathan Lewis, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Lockheed Martin, Energy Secretary, Biosphere-2, American Association for the Advancement of Science, John Doerr, Bill Gates, U.S. Treasury Department, Caltech, Jeff Immelt, Nobel Prize, Xerox, The Atlantic, Green Products, Wind Turbines, China, Green News
James M. Gentile

Clean energy may well be the next economic revolution, and the United States can be at the forefront, if we take full advantage of our nation's streng...

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