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Months of grant writing is one of the things that makes people think twice about academia

Professors are constantly doing the calculation of whether a grant is worth the time to apply for it

But then researchers in Federally funded research and development centers - FFRDC like Lawrence Livermore National Lab need to write grant proposals anyway.

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§Academia Constraints

Fair games are self-limiting

The incentives inherent to corporate R&D mean that researchers motivated by money leave and those who are motivated by glory are not the best in the world

Professors are constantly doing the calculation of whether a grant is worth the time to apply for it

Younger professors have to spend more time getting money

Example of grant system failure for COVID19 tweet thread

Notes on the Endless Frontier Act

The Endless Frontier Act