Long-Horizon Research Programmes: A Perspective on Funding Beyond the Political Cycle
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22677588Keywords:
Long-Horizon Research Programmes; Future science and technology; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodologyAbstract
Long-Horizon Research Programmes has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a wider community can now
investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current
evidence for long-horizon research programmes, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles, with an eye
on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still largely working it out for themselves.
Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or blanket
avoidance
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