Issue Building legal, regulatory, funding and knowledge foundations for extreme R&D under responsible innovation

Summary

The essay sets out five foundations for extreme R&D. First, a legal basis should guarantee researchers' status and environment, since the Constitution protects scientists' rights by law but their status is far less secure than that of teachers, so dignity, pay advantages and administrative immunity should be written into statute. Second, technology and institutions should co-evolve, with regulatory research starting at the planning stage because conventional safety rules fit unknown domains poorly. Third, funding should be adequate and stable, reflecting the heavy costs of special safety measures and regulatory review rather than total-budget logic, and fourth, failure data and key researchers' careers should be managed so that failure is accumulated as an asset. Fifth, international competition and cooperation should be expanded, and all this support presupposes researchers' own responsible innovation in exchange for the state's backing.