The Problem
Research carries an engineering tax.
The problem isn't a lack of ideas, and it isn't a lack of data — there's an abundance of both. Before an idea can be tested, someone has to collect, clean, and align the right data. To test it properly, someone has to build simulation tools, model logic, and validation workflows. To keep the result useful, someone has to preserve the assumptions well enough that the work can be repeated or inspected.
That tax is what slows research down, pulls technical people away from research itself, narrows which questions get asked, and leaves scattered, hard-to-trust outputs behind.