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Exploring how the modern research/innovation ecosystem came to be. And concrete ideas for individuals looking to build a better one.
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An Alternative Approach to Deep Tech VC
Marrying early YC's goals with systems from the mid-20th C. deep tech pipeline
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Eric Gilliam
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Math and Physics’ Divorce, Poetry, and the Scientific Slowdown
An alternative hypothesis to the 'burden of knowledge' theory of the slowdown
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Eric Gilliam
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Thomas Edison, Technical Entrepreneur
My piece in Works in Progress
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Eric Gilliam
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How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions?
Alternative Title: Why all applied research organizations should hire a Bell-style systems engineer
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Eric Gilliam
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A Report on Scientific Branch-Creation: How the Rockefeller Foundation helped bootstrap the field of molecular biology
This piece is noticeably longer (twice the length) than the others on this Substack. This is because 1) it is a practically-oriented historical…
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Eric Gilliam
What would you like to know about how the new science orgs are run?
Hey Team! As you know, a lot of what I do is outline the details of how scientific systems and research institutes of the past worked. Tomorrow,…
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Eric Gilliam
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Irving Langmuir, the General Electric Research Laboratory, and when applications lead to theory
To this point, I’ve written tens of thousands of words on this Substack covering the work of scientists from the early-to-mid-1900s — a golden era of…
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Eric Gilliam
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