Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.
It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.
The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their ability to experiment and commit to the experimentation and innovation process.
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.