A think tank for accelerating scientific, technological, and industrial progress
The US is the R&D lab for the world and we should act like it
American science and technology are the best in the world, but they rest on a fragile foundation. Slow productivity growth, sclerotic institutions, and growing international competition have revealed fault lines in our innovation ecosystem. The Institute for Progress (IFP) focuses on pragmatic policy reforms that drive breakthrough discoveries, attract top talent, and expand our nation’s capacity to build.
Metascience
How can we change the incentives within science to produce more breakthrough research?
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High-Skilled Immigration
How can we attract and retain superstar talent from around the globe?
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Biotechnology
How can we prevent future pandemics and accelerate progress in the life sciences?
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Infrastructure
How can we make it easier to build things in the world of atoms?
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Emerging Technology
How can we shape the frontier of technological development and deployment?
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Spotlight research
Emerging Technology
Should the US Sell Blackwell Chips to China?
Assessing the impacts of exporting the NVIDIA B30A AI chip
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Emerging Technology
How to Implement an Operation Warp Speed for Rare Earths
A coordinated, whole-of-government effort to secure America’s rare earth supply chain
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High-Skilled Immigration
The “Wage Level” Mirage
How DHS’s H-1B proposal could help outsourcers and hurt US-trained talent
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Metascience
Indirect Cost Recovery and American Innovation: Context and Ideas for Reform
How the government covers indirect costs directly affects scientific innovation
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Metascience
How Much Should We Spend on Scientific Replication?
A data-driven framework for targeting replication funding where it matters most
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Emerging Technology
Unlocking a Million Times More Data for AI
How a new ARPANET-style program could solve the data accessibility problem
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Metascience
American Science Should Take a Lot More Risks
Scientific efficiency isn’t primarily about the dollars we could save; it’s about the breakthroughs we could be missing
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Emerging Technology
Preparing for Launch
An introduction to The Launch Sequence: Why shaping AI progress matters, and how to go about it
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Emerging Technology
Teaching AI How Science Actually Works
How block-grant labs can generate the real-world data AI needs to do science
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Emerging Technology
Using X-Labs to Unleash AI-Driven Scientific Breakthroughs
How to adapt our science funding mechanisms to the unique infrastructure needs of large-scale AI projects
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Emerging Technology
The Replication Engine
How to build automated replication infrastructure for better, faster science
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Emerging Technology
Benchmarking for Breakthroughs
How to incentivize AI for national priorities through a strategic challenge and evaluations program
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Emerging Technology
Scaling Materials Discovery with Self-Driving Labs
How to close the gap between AI-guided material design and real-world validation
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Emerging Technology
A Million-Peptide Database to Defeat Antibiotic Resistance
How to build a large peptides database to train the AlphaFold for new antibiotics
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Emerging Technology
Faster AI Diffusion Through Hardware-Based Verification
How to use privacy-preserving verification in the AI hardware stack to build trust and limit misuse
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Emerging Technology
Operation Patchlight
How to leverage advanced AI to give defenders an asymmetric advantage in cybersecurity
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