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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...
Metascience
Creating a Public System of National Laboratory Schools
...DSI support would entail: Competitive matching grants modeled on SBIR grants. These grants would go towards launching Laboratory Schools and sustaining those that demonstrate success. Technical guidance to help Laboratory...
Emerging Technology
Reducing Recidivism through Innovation: Bringing Opportunities to Incarcerated Persons and Prison-Tech Startups
...cross-agency initiative to support prison-tech startups. The initiative would offer federal grants to fund private companies and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) providing beneficial prison-tech goods and services: e.g., carceral learning platforms...
High-Skilled Immigration
Bolstering STEM Talent with the National Interest Waiver
...immigrants holding advanced STEM degrees, including the policy imperative for the guidance, Lays out an updated approach to NIW petitions that immigration lawyers have found successful Assesses outcomes of the...
High-Skilled Immigration
The Talent Scout State
...of immigrants: successful people well into their careers, with a demonstrated track record of achievement. We should allow foreign-born scientists and researchers to do their pioneering work here in the...
High-Skilled Immigration
A Serious Case for Dynamic Scoring
...fruition? Data — and intuition — suggest that admitting more high-skilled immigrants to the U.S. would generate substantial benefits to the U.S. economy. Large numbers of skilled immigrants are eager...
Metascience
Expanding Pathways for Career Research Scientists in Academia
...for grants), give up the higher pay and prestige of the tenure track in order to continue “doing the science” via lower-status staff positions (e.g., lab manager, research software engineer),...
