For the love of frontier research, or why Elon’s rockets keep blowing up
The current Zeitgeist favouring utilitarian research risks undermining basic research—the very foundation on which innovative technological advances depend.
Authors
- Nektarios Tavernarakis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5253-1466)
Institutions
- University of Crete (GR)
- Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (GR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- EMBO Reports
- Published
- 2025-09-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-025-00587-2
- Primary Topic
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00