Unjerked E4 - Research and Development

Unjerked Podcast

William Henderson and B. McGraw talk about Research and Development. Who funds it, and who does R&D? How do different countries approach it differently? Does it have any benefits for the greater economy? What about issues like corporate influence, P-hacking, and manipulated results?

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3:58 Global R&D by region

6:04 R&D as percent of GDP by country

10:35 funding vs performing entites by country

14:53 NIH definition of basic research

22:35 Percent of government spending by category by country

27:22 Academic research source of funds by Country

30:30 History of R&D funding in USA

34:03 US funding performer categories

36:44 US funding source categories

37:30 US R&D by industry

37:57 R&D intensity by industry

39:00 Basic vs applied vs development trends

40:45 Agencies within the federal government

42:18 Subjects funded by the government

43:40 National endowments of arts and humanities

55:55 DARPA created the internet

56:01 NASA spinoffs

58:35 Correlation between R&D and growth

1:00:15 Negative result bias

1:01:34 Tobacco industry funding research

1:01:40 Sugar industry funding research

1:03:23 Alzheimer’s research fraud

1:0543 Journal article paywalls

1:08:34 History of peer review

1:10:17 Accuracy peer review vs preprint

1:10:53 Public peer review

1:13:04 Stanford fired

1:18:14 Extent of p-hacking

1:24:11 Amazon 2022 expenses