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Frontier Research Contractor Launchpad: First Cohort Results
A close reading of the early history of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) — the ARIA-like agency in the US that funded the early internet and autonomous vehicles — yields a key lesson: exceptional projects were usually the result...
Turning Risk Appetite Into Impact
When it comes to the philanthropic ecosystem, we live in exciting times. A duo of recent posts — one from one of SF’s great thinkers, the other from one of its great general managers — are dedicated to this fact.
Last week, Dwarkesh Patel...
Ideas for Biotechnology BBNs
Biotechnology is filled with promising young scientists who want to work on big problems, but whose ideas do not neatly fit within academia, venture capital, or even large-scale philanthropy. Academics tend to work within individual laborat...
BBNs Toward Universal Fabricators
Today’s piece is a guest post by Ivan Jayapurna. Ivan is a Programme Director (PD) at the UK’s Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA). This week marks the launch of his £50m program: Universal Fabricators.
Ivan’s program has some very...
An Applied Crop Genetics BBN
Today’s piece is a guest post by Karen Sarkisyan.1 Karen is the founder of Syntato, an applied crop genetics BBN. BBNs pursue ambitious North Star technical visions with a mix of contracts and grants. As Karen puts it, Syntato’s North Star...
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As a researcher, I dive into the history of 20th Century innovation to understand how we can build better science and engineering institutions today. At RenPhil, I'm working to build more BBNs for the 21st Century.
Bioengineer and writer. Previously: Founding Editor, Asimov Press.
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