Hi Joseph, thank you for the fast reply!! I did read it, and I do think it answers my question on the bottleneck identification process, but my core question can still be rephrased to: How can an industry professional or a PhD candidate like myself get involved in these kinds of massive deep dives without access to all the resources of experts and contacts? What if someone has an inkling of what an idea could be but can't verify it? I can do cold calling and reading, but I wonder at what point you can reach a conviction good enough to be a part of your very cool gap map for example! I ask because I really want to be able to do these kinds of dives myself for both investing and founding purposes, and so far I've only really been exposed to resources like i-corp or self-interest web scraping. I've been trying to think about a model that can be more inclusive and more publicized, but it might not exist yet..
Great read and so informative!! Could you do an article on how to go about identifying bottlenecks?
Would love to hear what you questions you have after reading this piece :)
https://www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/scientific-roadmapping
Hi Joseph, thank you for the fast reply!! I did read it, and I do think it answers my question on the bottleneck identification process, but my core question can still be rephrased to: How can an industry professional or a PhD candidate like myself get involved in these kinds of massive deep dives without access to all the resources of experts and contacts? What if someone has an inkling of what an idea could be but can't verify it? I can do cold calling and reading, but I wonder at what point you can reach a conviction good enough to be a part of your very cool gap map for example! I ask because I really want to be able to do these kinds of dives myself for both investing and founding purposes, and so far I've only really been exposed to resources like i-corp or self-interest web scraping. I've been trying to think about a model that can be more inclusive and more publicized, but it might not exist yet..
The problem with the NSF, is that its long term effect was to bureaucratize science.