title: Sweden has the right idea.
abstract: The conservative funding system, which tends to prefer giving money to things that seem likely to work rather than to things that are innovative and therefore risky, rewards those with a track record so long as they continue to do the things they have a track record in.
authors.affiliation: Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA. petsko@brandeis.edu
authors.forename: Gregory A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Petsko
mesh_terms: D005582:Foundations; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D013548:Sweden