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Biotechnology
How Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, and How We Can Fix It
...mechanisms for researchers in this field reinforce the shortfall in data infrastructure investment. Project-based grants, like the NIH’s R01, are focused on specific research questions or outcomes. These grants usually...
Infrastructure
A Pro-Supply To-Do List for Congress’s Housing Bill
...the Innovation Fund’s grants, which would offset the infrastructure costs of new housing. While new housing construction ultimately supports the local tax base, it can impose upfront demands on roads,...
Metascience
How Much Should We Spend on Scientific Replication?
...about 1.4% of the NIH’s annual budget before hitting negative returns relative to funding new science. But implementation matters: a poorly designed program or mistargeted grants can easily waste resources...
Emerging Technology
Compute in America: A Policy Playbook
...with grid modernization funding is hardly new. Under the 2009 Smart Grid Investment Grants program, all grantees of the program were required to “implement comprehensive cybersecurity plans and build cybersecurity...
Biotechnology
An Innovation Agenda for Addiction
...a modestly-sized study. That study will then need separate grants to be run. Though not a problem unique to addiction medicine, it is especially important in a field reliant on...
High-Skilled Immigration
STEM Immigration Is Critical to American National Security
...patents are produced by immigrants and 33% of American Nobel are won by immigrants.[ref 12] But the need for STEM talent is especially pronounced in defense-related industries. Not only are...
Infrastructure
Smarter Zoning for Fair Housing
...to meeting fair-housing standards, and (ii) support plentiful supplies of affordable housing to address equity and other issues. HUD should also provide research grants under the Unlocking Possibilities Program,[ref 8]...
High-Skilled Immigration
Semiconductor Investments Won’t Pay Off If Congress Doesn’t Fix the Talent Bottleneck
...of domestic STEM education. First, every cap-exempt immigrant is required by the provisions to pay $1,000 to fund STEM scholarships and training for low-income Americans. What’s more, new STEM immigrants...
