New Science Organizations

Exploring innovative structures for scientific institutions, leveraging decentralized principles and computational tools to foster more open, efficient, and collaborative approaches to fundamental research.

Project Overview

Traditional science organizations often face challenges like rigid hierarchies, funding constraints, and limited interdisciplinary collaboration. The New Science Organizations project aims to reimagine these frameworks by drawing on decentralized science (DeSci) models, crowdfunding mechanisms, and computational paradigms. Initiated through a crowdfunded research proposal itself, this effort seeks to design blueprints for institutions that prioritize transparency, community involvement, and rapid iteration. By analyzing existing models and prototyping new ones, the project addresses how to better support exploratory fundamental research, unify disparate fields, and accelerate discoveries in areas like physics, biology, and mathematics.

A New Kind of Science Organization

How can Decentralized Science (DeSci) and Distributed Autonomous Organisations (DAO’s) better align incentives for funding basic science research?

This foundational proposal outlines goals for redesigning science organizations, including methods for decentralized funding and deliverables such as whitepapers and prototypes. It serves as the initial research step, emphasizing open goals, methods, and outcomes to inspire broader DeSci initiatives.

The initial research on this project was made possible by the generous donations of funders via the ResearchHub platform.

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