# Glossary Ideally I would use as few specialized terms as possible. There are several ideas that do need to be compressed. Instead of definitions for nebulous terms, I think it’s worthwhile to write through how I’m thinking about it and using it to hopefully help you grok the sense in which I’m using it. Additionally I’ll try to justify its use. * [[Activity Space]] * Systems Research * [[Systems research requires a lot of work that is expensive and uninteresting]] * Innovation ecosystem * Innovation Org * [[Innovation ecosystem and innovation org are terrible but useful terms]] * [[Suitcase Handle Word]] * Science * Engineering * [[Scientific inquiry is an abstracting process while engineering design is a narrowing process]] * Research * [[As a platonic ideal, research is an unscheduled quest for new knowledge and inventions with hard-to-predict outcomes]] * Paradigm * Meant in the Kuhnsian sense * [[Paradigms are lenses for looking at the world]] * [[Technology readiness level - TRL]] * [[Quadrant Model of Scientific Research]] * Money Factory * [[The (idea) valley of death]] * [[Counterfactuals]] * [[Counterfactuals are hard]] * [[Asymmetric career risk]] * Program Design * [[You can create a program design discipline that enables better research and development]] * [[Buxton Index]] * [[Knightian Uncertainty]] * Project (especially contra Program) * Value <!-- #list --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Glossary) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Glossary)