Energy, Environment & Climate Innovation & Economic Competitiveness Leveraging Department of Energy Authorities and Assets to Strengthen the U.S. Clean Energy Manufacturing Base Climate action and U.S. manufacturing competitiveness are deeply intertwined and require a coordinated strategy.
Innovation & Economic Competitiveness Science Policy Piloting and Evaluating NSF Science Lottery Grants: A Roadmap to Improving Research Funding Efficiencies and Proposal Diversity Our nation’s methods of supporting new ideas should evolve alongside our knowledge base.
Innovation & Economic Competitiveness Fund Organizations, Not Projects: Diversifying America’s Innovation Ecosystem with a Portfolio of Independent Research Organizations Dominant research-funding paradigms are constraining the outputs of America’s innovation systems.
Health & Life Sciences Innovation & Economic Competitiveness Creating Advanced Market Commitments and Prizes for Pandemic Preparedness The U.S. should invest in AMCs and prizes for vaccine development and deployment as part of the American Pandemic Preparedness Plan.
Innovation & Economic Competitiveness Broadening the Knowledge Economy through Independent Scholarship Our lack of creativity in defining the scholarly landscape is limiting our nation’s capacity for innovation.
Health & Life Sciences Innovation & Economic Competitiveness Curing Alzheimer’s by Investing in Aging Research Now is the time for the NIA to drive science-first funding for the field of aging.
Innovation & Economic Competitiveness Bringing Opportunities to Incarcerated Persons and Prison-Tech Startups The Biden-Harris Administration should launch a cross-agency initiative to support prison-tech startups.
Education & Workforce Innovation & Economic Competitiveness Creating a Public System of National Laboratory Schools The U.S. should establish a system of National Laboratory Schools in parallel to its existing system of FFRDCs.
Education & Workforce Innovation & Economic Competitiveness Improving Graduate-Student Mentorship by Investing in Traineeship Grants The federal government should build on the success of the NIH’s training-grant program to support STEMM graduate students & U.S. R&D.