If the first Research Organisation drops the ball, the second Research Organisation will have no genetic material to test. The risk of non-performance by any single Research Organisation can be reduced through sound project management practices. Each Research Organisation should nominate its own project manager. The progress of the entire project should be reviewed at regular intervals. All project managers should attend meetings for this purpose.
All technology is on a continuum.
It has no finite beginning. It has no finite ending. Technology is in a continuous state of evolution. At times, the speed of technological change is staggering. We view it as revolutionary instead of evolutionary.