A think tank for accelerating scientific, technological, and industrial progress
Policy research and strategy to remove the bottlenecks to U.S. growth
Over the last 50 years, our rate of innovation has been slowing down while the global challenges we face have been growing. To combat climate change, future pandemics, and economic stagnation, we need to leverage the United States' unique advantages and chart a path to abundance.
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

Come Work with IFP
IFP is currently hiring — join the team!
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January 22nd 2025
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Emerging Technology

Compute in America: A Policy Playbook
How to Rapidly Build Gigawatt-Scale AI Clusters in the United States
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February 3rd 2025
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Infrastructure

How the White House Can Reform NEPA
Three steps the Council on Environmental Quality can take to fix our environmental permitting process.
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February 3rd 2025
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Infrastructure

Leveraging LIHTC for Housing Abundance
Realigning federal subsidies will increase housing supply in America’s big cities
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January 21st 2025
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Biotechnology

How Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, and How We Can Fix It
A million-peptide database could help us solve antibiotic resistance.
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January 27th 2025
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High-Skilled Immigration

Talent Recruitment Roulette: Replacing the H-1B Lottery
We could almost double the economic value of the H-1B program without changing the number of visas
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January 17th 2025
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Biotechnology

The Case for Clinical Trial Abundance
A series of short papers outlining reform possibilities for America's clinical trials
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December 18th 2024
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Biotechnology

An Innovation Agenda for Addiction
We can advance the development of breakthrough medicines to reduce addiction at scale
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December 10th 2024
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Biotechnology

Securing Benchtop DNA Synthesizers
As the field of benchtop DNA synthesis evolves, it will require ongoing monitoring.
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December 10th 2024
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High-Skilled Immigration

Maximizing the Scientific ROI from International PhDs
Scientific grants should be awarded on the basis of merit, not nationality.
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December 2nd 2024
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Biotechnology

Biosecurity in the Trump Era
We highlight five key moves the new administration could make to improve the nation's biosecurity
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November 19th 2024
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Metascience

The “Metascience 101” Podcast Series
A nine-episode set of interviews that doubles as a crash course in the debates, issues, and ideas driving the modern metascience movement
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November 19th 2024
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Biotechnology

The Triple Rapid Framework for Pandemic Diagnostics
Rapid reconfiguration, rapid deployment, and rapid results could help contain future outbreaks at their source
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November 12th 2024
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Emerging Technology

How to Build the Future of AI in the United States
Part Two of Compute in America
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October 23rd 2024
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High-Skilled Immigration

Practical Ways to Modernize the Schedule A List
An analysis of responses to the Department of Labor's recent Request for Information
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October 7th 2024
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High-Skilled Immigration

High-Skilled Immigration Resources
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September 25th 2024
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