Institute for Progress (IFP)

An incredibly long but super fascinating read about constructing fabs and why they cost so very much from Brian Potter at the Institute for Progress (IFP): https://lnkd.in/gae5HNB2 Worth a read!

REPORT: How to Make the NSTC a Moonshot Success The National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) has been slower to materialize than manufacturing grants funding under the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, but this public-private consortium has the potential to be far more consequential in the long term than the manufacturing support. In an extensive report at the Institute for Progress (IFP), Arrian Ebrahimi 刘天文 and I highlight market failures that challenge research and investment in the semiconductor industry, and propose an organizational infrastructure that would allow the NSTC to plug these holes as a unique market actor. Thanks to the Institute for Progress (IFP) team for help pushing this across the finish line! https://lnkd.in/ei_kc_hn

Come work with us! IFP is currently hiring for: - Chief of Staff - Data Fellow - Biotechnology Fellow - Senior Biotechnology Fellow https://lnkd.in/dYWpUR-q

From IFP Senior Fellow Brian Potter, a major new report. "The overwhelming priority of energy policy must be making it easier to build things." https://lnkd.in/ekpZV8es

mRNA vaccines were first proposed in 1988. If they'd been pursued by the scientific community, we could have had a response to COVID-19 far sooner, with far less loss of life. Why weren't mRNA vaccines developed decades earlier? IFP Senior Technology Fellow Tim Hwang takes a deep dive into that history here, and assesses the lessons. "We can restructure science funding to help breakthrough research translate more quickly." https://lnkd.in/eJx_yU-N

🌟 ARPA? ARPAH? ARPAAAAAH? 🚀 Trying to unravel the ARPA Model? Here’s a Resource Guide outlined by Jacob Swett and Janika Schmitt. #DARPA's groundbreaking inventions sparked a wave of government "ARPAs" like ARPA-H, ARPA-E, and more. But can this model be replicated elsewhere? Explore a new concise guide by the Institute for Progress (IFP) 1️⃣ Origin Story: Dive into DARPA's legacy. 2️⃣ ARPA Insights: Discover the Heilmeier Catechism, risk management, and replication strategies. 3️⃣ Global ARPA Clones: Meet similar entities worldwide. [...] A good read 💡 #ARPA #Innovation #Research #IFP #ResourceGuide https://lnkd.in/eNUqF-nx

In this great interview at the 1Day Sooner, Institute for Progress (IFP), and The Medical Countermeasures Coalition Operation Warp Speed 2.0 conference, my former colleague Taylor Sexton got us into some previously unexplored areas around OWS and its use for ongoing and future health scenarios. https://lnkd.in/eQfPNSU4

In the latest edition of Statecraft, Senior Editor Santi Ruiz interviewed former Chuck Schumer policy director Gerry Petrella about how the CHIPS and Science Act was passed. They discussed: What are the functions of the majority leader’s staff? How does information flow in the Senate? Do committees still work, or has all negotiation moved to backrooms? https://lnkd.in/exDF-4Qb

In a groundbreaking report, IFP fellows Jeremy Neufeld, Lindsay Milliken, and Brookings Non-Resident Fellow Greg Wright propose a new, data-driven method to identify gaps in the labor market. The authors develop a new economic index, the Help Wanted Index, designed to identify and rank occupations by how likely they are to be facing shortage conditions. The Help Wanted Index includes lagged variables and longer data trends to strike a balance between favoring persistent shortages and responding to changing labor markets. https://lnkd.in/eb29pT9A

In the latest Statecraft installment, former DARPA PM Joshua Elliott explains how to run good programs, what managers get wrong, and why the ARPA model can't scale to every field https://lnkd.in/efJSbdGw