Mr Clancy notes that many venture-capital partnerships employ similar policies, because they prioritise the upside of long-shot projects rather than seeking to minimise failure.

克兰西指出，许多风险投资合作伙伴关系都采用了类似的政策，因为他们会优先考虑长期项目的好处，而不是想方设法将失败降至最低。

Evaluation of them can then build knowledge of what works, says Matt Clancy, an economist who curates a continuously updated online literature survey on innovation, itself an experiment in how to improve science.

经济学家马特·克兰西称，对它们进行评估可以让人了解其效用。克兰西策划了一项关于创新的持续更新的线上文献调查，这本身就是一项测试如何促进科学发展的实验。