Academic Methods and Innovation
December 24, 2014
For your holiday celebration of innovation. Navigate to “Does the Peer Review Process Stifle Scientific Innovation?” (Keep in mind that I think in terms of information access, not inventing iPhone cases.) The write up asserts:
A new study suggests the current model may succeed in keeping out the scientific riff-raff, but its maintenance of the status quo comes with a drawback, the study’s authors argue — the regular rejection of cutting-edge work.
Well, is that a surprise? Google gained an advantage by culling decades of academic computing research and then blending it with some special inspiration from GoTo/Overture/Yahoo perspiration.
Google’s academic roots are deep and, like bonsai, aggressively cultivated. Will Google’s penchant for academics undermine its innovation?
My hunch is that Google’s trajectory suggests that the company may be an example of the “stifle” effect. But it is happy holidays when ads keep on selling.
Stephen E Arnold, December 24, 2014
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