Magic Smoke
Stian WestlakeThis Substack is a place where I'll post occasional personal reflections on economic growth, intangible capital, metascience, and research and innovation policy.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Promoting economic growth
One thing my colleagues and I are currently working on is ESRC’s future strategy, and our 2025-27 Strategic Delivery Plan. I wanted to talk about a significant aspect of this strategy: a new commitment on ESRC’s part to the promotion of eco...
Apollonian and Dionysian Metascience
TL;DR: When we talk about metascience, we are to some extent talking about two complementary movements, with important differences in style and spirit. There is a place for both these movements, and the creative tension between them is valu...
"Woke waste" and diversity of thought
From time to time, a piece of publicly funded research gets accused of being a bad use of taxpayers’ money. This is particularly likely when the research can be characterised as “woke”.
A Strategic Brain for the R&D Ecosystem
When UKRI was set up seven years ago, one of its aims was, in the words of its first Chair Sir John Kingman, to provide a ‘strategic brain’ for the UK’s R&D system.
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