Metascience and Decentralized Science
Primers
Primers on the structural conditions for next-generation research and innovation — the institutional forms, funding arrangements, and social processes that determine what kinds of science are possible at all.
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The Diversity Problem: Institutions, Science, and What Makes Research Possible
Why research ecosystems converge on single institutional models, what external conditions produce and sustain institutional diversity, and what the current moment of new institution-building actually means.
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Enterprise Foundations: Commercial Ownership, Patient Capital, and Long-Horizon Research
How foundations that own commercial companies produce a distinctive form of research funding — patient capital insulated from political cycles — and what the Danish model, its international variations, and their governance challenges reveal about institutional diversity in science.
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Ecosystem Forces: The External Conditions Shaping What Research Is Possible
A working map of the geopolitical, technological, environmental, political, economic, social, and epistemic forces that determine what kinds of research and innovation are structurally possible at a given moment — updated as forces develop.