Dear Eduardo
thank you. i think you might be the only person who takes me seriously. wow, i
have never seen 104 000 euros. where are you publishing your work? love to see
it. will you characterize it as a piece rice+potatoes with dried cod fish
research?
would you care to explicate how your philosophy on rice and potatoes (as
expressed in your previous post) guide your research? Eduardo, i am serious
about this question, that's what i was driving at... and most interested at
the moment.... and never never meant to be offensive.
best regards, rosan
Eduardo Corte-Real wrote:
> Dear Rosan:
>
> I'm just finishing a 2 year research project funded in 104 000 euros. So
> I'm raising my hand. In fact, it can be described as: demonstrate its
> usefullness; demonstrate its scientific accuracy; demonstrate that the data
> where well collected and better processed; demonstrate that the money was
> well spent; demonstrate by presenting papers in conferences/journals that
> the results are useful for the scientific comunity; demonstrate that the
> work can be porsued producing real benefits for the people/users and
> politicians; demonstrate that the same methodology can be applied to other
> situations thus apply for more funds.
> On top of this I must demonstrate to funders that Design Research is a bona
> fide scientific field and my research center is porsuing excellence along
> with garantiyng that a Board of trustees will maintain a certain amount of
> faith on our work.
> There are people digging on potatoes and people harvesting on rice. Until
> we have stabilized our goals we will, still, be mixing rice and potatoes an
> see what comes out.
> Hope this was not much philosophical,
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Eduardo
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