The agency is considering giving peer reviewers one-time vetoes to push through support for unconventional science.
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“I’m sure every researcher in the world feels like their unfunded proposals were innovative and outside of the box and the reviewers just didn’t get it,” says Karl Zelik, a mechanical engineer at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.Zelik sees golden tickets as an opportunity for applicants who want to propose ideas at the fringes of their field that are unlikely to convince all of the researchers on a review panel.
The evidence suggests golden tickets “could be a mechanism to fund high-risk, high-reward research”, says Erwin Gianchandani, assistant director for technology, innovation and partnerships at the NSF in Alexandria, Virginia. That’s why the NSF is considering a pilot scheme of its own, but details of how the agency would run such a scheme remain scarce, Gianchandani explains. “We are studying what’s out there and trying to learn lessons from any [relevant] literature.
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