Well, you&#x27;d get my money for a ray-bending materials research problem that will eventually turn out to be easy to integrate on an organic substrate, opening the way for silicon-on-organic optoelectronic devices.<p>But in all seriousness, there are different types of research, no? Some research leads to new technology and some is verification, repeatability and just plain knowledge discovery.<p>There might be some way of rigging up the system so that people who fund potentially patent creating research could get a cut of the royalties.<p>And the reproducibility area would be great for a large number of people especially if such things are kept track of (&quot;This particular study has only been done once&quot;). If we can get people to trust repeated studies more than not repeated that site will help better clarify emergent research trends&#x2F;topics.