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New
discoveries
often occur during open-ended explorations of the unknown.
Many important
discoveries
are a result of serendipity: researchers find something unexpected that they were not looking for, but which they quickly recognize as significant.
The award both catalyzed and subsidized the work of the chemist and bacteriologist Louis Pasteur, whose breakthrough
discoveries
led him to develop revolutionary methods – including the process that came to be known as pasteurization – for the sanitary production and preservation of food.
Believers in oil scarcity point to the sustained annual average increase of oil prices from 2002 to 2008, declining output in many areas of the world, and the absence (until recently off the coast of Brazil) of large-scale oil
discoveries
in the last few decades.
In fact, the bulk of recent growth in world reserves is due not to new discoveries, but mainly to reserve growth and improved recovery rates.
Over the last 12 years, for example, the average real construction cost of an oil well has doubled, and in recent years new mining
discoveries
have been few, despite the industry's best (and often expensive) efforts.
Even promising
discoveries
like bacteria or moths that can dissolve or digest plastics can provide only auxiliary support.
Now the scientific community must use its capacity for self-correction – based on new information, discoveries, experiences, and ideas (the stuff of scientific progress for centuries) – to address these threats.
Uncertain funding prospects not only discourage scientists from pursuing risky or undirected lines of research that could lead to crucial discoveries; they also make it more difficult to recruit the best and brightest for scientific careers, especially given the extensive training and specialization that such careers require.
Applying the scientific method to the problems of science could be scientists’ best hope for regaining public confidence and reinvigorating the quest for transformative
discoveries.
With selective reporting, we would end up with a long list of all the false
discoveries
made across all research teams, with only a few true findings buried among this pile of non-replicated waste.
Yet
discoveries
made during the latter part of the twentieth century have shown that there is much more to inheritance than DNA.
The
discoveries
are the largest oil reserves discovered in the ocean in recent years.
But the
discoveries
place Brazil at a crossroads.
All of this implies many exciting
discoveries
ahead.
Nigeria, grappling with a worsening economic crisis, wants to double daily production to four million barrels, to reflect new
discoveries
that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) claimed in December 2003 had increased reserves to 34 billion barrels.
Others reply that new
discoveries
and improved technologies for extracting oil from existing fields make such projections too alarmist.
By this narrow logic, when it comes to the pharmaceutical industry, we should be unconcerned if drug firms’ share prices are boosted not by new discoveries, but by financial maneuvers, such as share buybacks or tax inversion.
The choices that we as Africans make today will determine whether we remain poor, evolve into Dubai-like diversified economies, or follow the successful agriculture-led industrialization model implemented in Malaysia (despite that country’s gas discoveries).
Boundaries like these are fixed once and forever, and no one knows what discoveries, technologies, and opportunities the future might bring.
But rising commodity prices are overcoming reluctance, and prospecting is generating a multitude of new
discoveries.
High prices and future
discoveries
will generate money flows so vast that, if properly managed, they could transform desperately poor parts of Africa into regions of prosperity.
We conjectured that even though random discoveries, weather events, and technologies might dramatically shift relative values for certain periods, the resulting price differentials would create incentives for innovators to concentrate more attention on goods whose prices had risen dramatically.
Using existing, openly shared data makes it easier for researchers to reach across disciplines and formulate the kinds of innovative questions and research agendas that are far more likely to lead to groundbreaking
discoveries.
This year’s Davos meeting will offer a glimpse of where the next life-, planet- and economy-saving
discoveries
and products will come from, and where we should invest our talents and treasure to fuel the next generation of transformative technologies.
The technologies on which many of us depend today arose from a parallel convergence of
discoveries
in physics and engineering in the early twentieth century.
At the same time, just as the twentieth century’s convergence of physics and engineering transformed our lives, the accelerating convergence of biology and engineering is driving unprecedented
discoveries
that promise to create another platform for innovation, the rise of new industries, and economic growth.
If these technologies had been patented, Myriad might not have made its
discoveries.
This has been true of all of the transformative
discoveries
and innovations – DNA, transistors, lasers, the Internet, and so on.
It is critical that we find new sources of funding to support the academic researchers and small companies whose
discoveries
are laying the foundations for tomorrow’s medicines.
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