Very differently. Instead of a system you continually iterate on for its entire lifetime, if you're in a more regulated research area you might build it once, get it approved, and then it's only critical updates for the next five (or more!) years while data is collected.
Not many of the IT principles developed for web app startups apply in the research domain. They're less like cattle or pets and more like satellites which have very limited ability to be changed after launch.
Very differently. Instead of a system you continually iterate on for its entire lifetime, if you're in a more regulated research area you might build it once, get it approved, and then it's only critical updates for the next five (or more!) years while data is collected.
Not many of the IT principles developed for web app startups apply in the research domain. They're less like cattle or pets and more like satellites which have very limited ability to be changed after launch.