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High-Skilled Immigration
High-Skilled Immigration Resources
...immigrants in innovation. Please reach out to IFP’s high-skilled immigration team if you have any questions. Correspondence with the government March 19, 2026. Jeremy Neufeld testified before the Joint Economic...
Emerging Technology
Request for Proposals: The Launch Sequence
...Bradley, secured grants from IFP and other philanthropic funders to explore founding a nonprofit to eliminate memory safety vulnerabilities in open-source code & critical infrastructure A bill based on The...
Metascience
Fund Organizations, Not Projects: Diversifying America's Innovation Ecosystem with a Portfolio of Independent Research Organizations
...starship vs. NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). The ITER fusion program vs. fusion companies like Commonwealth Fusion and Helion. NIH grants for COVID-19 research vs. privately funded “fast grants” for...
Metascience
Indirect Cost Recovery and American Innovation: Context and Ideas for Reform
...is to reduce or end the use of project grants to fund overhead expenses, and to replace them with grants that specifically fund infrastructure or fund institutions through block grants....
Emerging Technology
Using X-Labs to Unleash AI-Driven Scientific Breakthroughs
...of the most important AI-for-science efforts could slip through the cracks of federal funding — too multidisciplinary, infrastructure- and engineering-heavy, or speculative for traditional grants. To operationalize this new scientific...
Metascience
Lab-Directed R&D at the National Labs
...follow-on funding from DOE headquarters. This model has repeatedly proven prescient: LDRD grants funded early-stage work that led to the Nobel Prize–winning discovery of the molecular mechanisms of CRISPR, for...
Metascience
Progress Is a Policy Choice
...Nearly half of our billion-dollar startups were founded by immigrants, and 80% featured immigrants in a core product design or management role. Though immigrants make up only 18 percent of...
Emerging Technology
Catalyzing a Golden Age: A Blueprint for Strategic AI R&D Investment
...of a 2025 National AI R&D Strategic Plan. IFP submitted the following response. Introduction AI has the potential to solve some of humanity’s most pressing problems, from finding treatments for...
