Magari bastassero un paio di libri a rendere questi tempi meno neo-liberisti dove conta davvero, ovvero, nelle decisioni politiche e nella straordinaria egemonia culturale... :) Grazie per la citazione dell'articolo di Matt Ridley (per chi non conoscesse l'interessante autore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley). L'articolo tocca molti argomenti e per ciascuno ci vorrebbe una discussione ad hoc. In breve, condivido la critica all'attuale sistema brevettuale e anche la convinzione che la relazione tra ricerca di base e applicata sia tutt'altro che lineare. Non condivido invece né il tecno-determinismo, né il bias (tutto da 'opinion piece', non da ricercatore) contro il ruolo del pubblico. grazie ancora per la segnalazione, jc On 02/11/15 12:01, Massimiliano Trovato wrote:
Praticamente un’eresia, in questi tempi neo-liberisti in cui i Piketty e le Mazzucato faticano a trovare un editore… :)
Battute a parte, mi pare non sia passato in lista questo lungo pezzo di Matt Ridley per il WSJ, che sulla ricerca di base offre una prospettiva un po’ diversa: "The perpetual-innovation machine that feeds economic growth and generates prosperity is not the result of deliberate policy at all, except in a negative sense. Governments cannot dictate either discovery or invention; they can only make sure that they don’t hinder it. Innovation emerges unbidden from the way that human beings freely interact if allowed. Deep scientific insights are the fruits that fall from the tree of technological change.” http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-basic-science-1445613954
Food for thought.
MT
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 11:18 AM, J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin@polito.it <mailto:demartin@polito.it>> wrote:
Questa intervista a Bill Gates sta facendo il giro del mondo perché osa dire - in questi tempi neo-liberisti (soprattutto in Europa, negli USA il vento sta un po' cambiando - che la ricerca pubblica di base è essenziale e che “The private sector is in general inept.”
jc
*‘We Need an Energy Miracle’* Bill Gates has committed his fortune to moving the world beyond fossil fuels and mitigating climate change.
JAMES BENNET NOVEMBER 2015 ISSUE
In his offices overlooking Lake Washington, just east of Seattle, Bill Gates grabbed a legal pad recently and began covering it in his left-handed scrawl. He scribbled arrows by each margin of the pad, both pointing inward. The arrow near the left margin, he said, represented how governments worldwide could stimulate ingenuity to combat climate change by dramatically increasing spending on research and development. “The push is the R&D,” he said, before indicating the arrow on the right. “The pull is the carbon tax.” Between the arrows he sketched boxes to represent areas, such as deployment of new technology, where, he argued, private investors should foot the bill. He has pledged to commit $2 billion himself.
“Yes, the government will be somewhat inept,” he said brusquely, swatting aside one objection as a trivial statement of the obvious. “But the private sector is in general inept. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them.”
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