Traditional academic research processes are ill-suited to induce rapid transition to real world applications and markets. A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a workshop to consider new models that address balancing risk and speed for new technologies across multiple players (industry, university, philanthropy and government) and that incentivize risk-taking to address urgent problems not well-served by traditional strategies.
Workshop participants will focus on the following three issues:
1. How the longstanding, successful Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) model can evolve and scale to meet the changing needs of an accelerated research ecosystem.
2. How to work across sectors to encourage urgency, speed and scale in environments with more traditional, slower moving, and risk-averse cultures.
3. The challenges universities face in managing security risk without slowing innovation as they develop models for the externalization and scaling of innovation beyond the campus.
A rapporteur-authored proceedings in brief will be produced following the workshop.