The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.
I think sometimes we in the industry have to do ambitious projects.
The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
Technologies simmer along before they are feasible. That simmer can be short or long, but then they get traction. And from there to being huge is a couple of decades.
Industry looks at research and development for energy efficiency, lowering material costs, so on and so forth.
As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science, if something isn't working, you have to toss it out and try something else.
You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.
Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.
Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.
The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.