# We have no flying cars - failures of paradigm-shifting engineering [[Regulations create paradigm lock-in]] in systems in a way that doesn’t matter to paradigm shifting discoveries. ### Related * [[Regulations create paradigm lock-in]] * [[Regulations slow down technological advancement]] * [[Regulations have increased by an order of magnitude]] * [[To make new things you need to take risks]] * [[Asymmetric career risk impacts corporate R+D]] * [[barnettUniversityPatentThickets2020]] * [[A new structure for scalable research]] * [[The vast majority of new ideas and technologies are never reproduced or achieve large-scale impact]] * [[Academic culture prizes individual recognition]] * [[The academic incentive structure leads to limitations on accountability, transparency, and collaboration]] * [[The word ‘novel’ is used as an idea bludgeon in academia]] * [[New technology requires previous infrastructure]] * [[Commercialization has very high transaction costs]] * [[Internal incentive structures within a large organization work against high quality R&D labs]] * [[Corporate RnD orgs have a lot of momentum]] [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/We+have+no+flying+cars+-+failures+of+paradigm-shifting+engineering) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/We+have+no+flying+cars+-+failures+of+paradigm-shifting+engineering)