Having long been interested in how prizes rather than conventional science funding work I would be interested in seeing patents won by prize winners, such as the Darpa automated car prize or the ASnsari spaeship prize, appear in such a diagram.

That we are not only making new discoveries but now starting to learn how the process of making new discoveries works, and thus how it could be encouraged is a 2nd order of progress. I doubt if there are enough prizes won yet but it would be interesting to see patents which won prizes, or were involved in winning prizes, were placed. If prizes are as useful as I think we would expect them to form the longest extensions from the main body of knowledge.