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Closing America’s Front Door
Editor’s note: There’s a lot we don’t know about how to make science more effective, and much of what we publish at Macroscience aims to explore new evidence on what might work. But one thing we have great certainty about is the impact of s...
John Van Reenen on Innovation Policy
Governments should incentivize and support innovation.
Maybe this isn’t a surprising sentence to see at the top of a Macroscience article. But once governments decide to, how should they actually go about incentivizing innovation? This wee...
Eight Questions About Metascience Units
Experiments can give us more productive plants; they can also give us more productive science. Source.
In the past few weeks, metascience units have gained new prominence. First, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the Office o...
Kevin Bryan on AI and Innovation
Editor’s Note: IFP’s Matthew Esche helped lead the Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation series this year, and facilitated several sessions, including this one. He’ll be introducing sessions that he facilitated.
When I have heard pe...
Debate: National Labs vs. New Science Institutions
Editor’s Note: Jordi Cabana’s May 2026 article about the Department of Energy (DOE) National Labs tapped into a discussion that is increasingly common in science policy: can large, unwieldy public institutions be reformed or should we just...
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Abundance and Growth Program Director at Coefficient Giving
Systems biologist studying the sociology of science. Founder of the Woodley Park Institute. Per data scientia promovetur.
Metascience and R&D policy at IFP
Senior Metascience Fellow at IFP
Director of Science Policy at the Foundation for American Innovation
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Catalyzing scientific acceleration
The slate was never blank. Chemist as an undergrad. Materials Scientist as a grad. Who knows what today?
Dare mighty things! Journeyman wondersmith at @Speculative Technologies. Past: AI @MagicLeap, Space Robots @NASA + @Cornell, medieval history @Caltech
Executive Director, Good Science Project Senior Advisor, Social Science Research Council
Accelerating breakthrough research. 👩🏼💻Currently @IFP (director of metascience and R&D policy). 👩🏻🚀Formerly @NASA space technology executive, White House OSTP Open Innovation assistant director, Harvard Fellow. 👩🏼🎓 ASE @UF. Tech Policy @MIT.
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