A fellowship of 10 years would give people enough time to take a risk, but still leave enough time to salvage a career if things didn't work out. People would devote the first 5 or 6 years doing high risk / high reward research that had a low chance of success. If things didn't pan out they could spend the last 4 or 5 years generating iterative results and publications.
These fellowships would not be a replacement for a normal academic position, but a way to give young scientists the breathing room to take a risk on high reward research. Given the chance many would - I certainly would have.
These fellowships would not be a replacement for a normal academic position, but a way to give young scientists the breathing room to take a risk on high reward research. Given the chance many would - I certainly would have.