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What Works in Boston, Won’t Necessarily Work in Birmingham: 4 Pragmatic Principles for Building Commercialization Capacity in Innovation Ecosystems

…in venture development organizations and state public-private partnerships swept the country, some of which (like Ben Franklin Technology Partners and BioSTL) are still with us today, and some of which…

10.24.23 | 12 min read
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Environment
Issue Brief
Moving the Nation: The Role of Federal Policy in Promoting Physical Activity

…activity related research in its intramural laboratories and through research funding to scientists at other organizations. Requests for applications (RFAs) and Notices of Special Interest (NOSIs) for exercise-focused research grants…

10.19.23 | 7 min read
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Emerging Technology
Blog
AI in Action: Recommendations for AI Policy in Health, Education, and Labor

…the U.S. can lead in advancing ethical, high-impact applications of AI. Education The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) co-leads the Alliance for Learning Innovation (ALI), a coalition of cross-sector organizations…

10.05.23 | 7 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Risk and Reward in Peer Review

…piloting this approach on a series of proposals in the life sciences that we have collected for Focused Research Organizations, a new type of non-profit research organization designed to tackle…

10.02.23 | 6 min read
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FAS
Press release
FAS Launches ‘FRO-casting’ Tournament on Metaculus to Solicit Ideas for Focused Research Organizations (FROs)

…program applies an expected value the forecasting methodology developed by FAS and Metaculus to proposals for Focused Research Organizations (FROs) in the life sciences, sourced by Convergent Research. FROs are…

10.02.23 | 2 min read
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