| 来源类型 | Monograph (IIASA Working Paper)
|
| 规范类型 | 论文
|
| Research by Accident. |
| Schelling TC
|
| 发表日期 | 1995
|
| 出版者 | IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-95-040
|
| 出版年 | 1995
|
| 语种 | 英语
|
| 摘要 | This paper deals with a key aspect of (uncertainty in) knowledge generation: unanticipated discoveries. The first part of the paper provides an illustration of what the author terms "research by accident", defined as a central cognitive device to generate unanticipated knowledge: in R&D for a new technological alternative as substitute to an old technology, scientists and engineers are inclined to narrow their vision, being preoccupied with simply accomplishing, with the new technology, what the old technology did. As very well documented in the case of nuclear weapons, such a cognitive bias leads to a sequence of unanticipated discoveries -- a process of research by accident which will subsequently reveal properties and characteristics of the technology which were not expected initially. One lesson of this paper is the importance of basic research as a source of information that one did not know was needed when it was first decided to deploy a new technology. The challenge is to improve ways of accessing existing knowledge at any one time so as to reduce the probability of surprise. |
| 主题 | Environmentally Compatible Energy Strategies (ECS)
|
| URL | http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4552/
|
| 来源智库 | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
|
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
|
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/124429
|
推荐引用方式
GB/T 7714 |
Schelling TC. Research by Accident.. 1995.
|
|
文件名：
|
WP-95-040.pdf
|
|
格式：
|
Adobe PDF
|
此文件暂不支持浏览
除非特别说明，本系统中所有内容都受版权保护，并保留所有权利。
