Consequently, innovation at the frontier depends on funding sources that are decoupled from concern for economic value; thus, it cannot be reduced to the optimal allocation of resources. The conventional production function of neoclassical economics offers a dangerously misleading lens through which to interpret the processes of frontier innovation.
结果，前沿创新取决于资金来源，而与经济价值考虑无甚关联；因此，不能把它同最优资源配置问题等量齐观。在解释前沿创新过程方面，新古典经济学的常规生产函数起到了危险的误导作用。