> A _metascience entrepreneur_ is a person, especially an outsider, who aims to make a scalable improvement in the social processes of science. > \- [[LN_A Vision of Metascience|Nielsen and Qiu]] The authors use "social processes of science" as a catchall for the underlying enabling processes of science such as peer review, funding, hiring, and so on. # My Perspective - The need for a cultural reset in how science develops becomes apparent the longer one operates within one or more of the existing structures. - My biased opinion is that few actively work on resetting the culture from within these systems (i.e., universities, funding bodies, research institutes). This is unsurprising because people within these large organisations must overcome both large-org inertia and personal risk aversion to develop a bias to action- even when inertia and risk are overcome, we seldom see direct action. - When these hurdles are overcome, the action I have seen is the creation of a new group whose goal is to tackle the problem but, ultimately, I have seen that usually an individual steps up to the plate and the other members of the collective play smaller roles. That is the individual who wishes to transform culture and is a model of the metascience entrepreneur. - The metascience entrepreneur shares traits with startup entrepreneurs such as imagination/vision, enterprise/drive, and the risk-taking appetite. Examples: Nielsen and Qiu point us to the story of Paul Ginsparg, was a well-known physicist working in string theory at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). - But to become entrepreneurial, the insider must [[16a1 metascience entrepreneurs notice issues to design better incentives and org models|find the bottlenecks that irritate them]] but also understand the [[14c How to identify risk-averse researchers|risky action spaces they can take]]. # related notes - [[16b Focused Research Organisations]] - [[16a My approach to metascience entrepreneurship]] -