What's the reason for declining British Biotech?
A recent paper in Nature Biotechnology analyzed British biotech firms focusing on their returns generated, available funding, and management/director's compensation.
Inefficiency in scientific grant competitions
I recently read an article entitled "Cost of the NSERC Science Grant Peer Review System Exceeds the Cost of Giving Every Qualified Researcher a Baseline Grant". It's quite a good read and summarizes many things I've observed happening in a research environment, particularly with regards to the administrative overhead scientific researchers must deal with on a day-to-day basis.
Interdisciplinary teams
I recently read Sean Eddy's '"Antedisciplinary" Science' in PLoS Computational Biology. In it, he quotes:
"I don't think of interdisciplinary teams combining existing skills to solve a defined problem--I think of single interdisciplinary people inventing new ways to look at the world."
