{"id":133925,"date":"2022-01-11T21:25:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T05:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/unblock-research-bottlenecks-with-non-profit-start-ups"},"modified":"2022-01-11T21:25:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T05:25:18","slug":"unblock-research-bottlenecks-with-non-profit-start-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/unblock-research-bottlenecks-with-non-profit-start-ups","title":{"rendered":"Unblock research bottlenecks with non-profit start-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unblock-research-bottlenecks-with-non-profit-start-ups2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A type of non-profit start-up could be a better way to support projects that enable research. These would have full-time scientists, engineers and executives, and total funding of about US$20 million to $100 million that would last around 5 years \u2014 longer than most grants or venture-capital funding rounds allow. And they would be set up to pursue predefined milestones, such as improving the resolution of a measurement system by tenfold, or gathering a pre-specified amount of data. We call them focused research organizations (FROs).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u2018Focused research organizations\u2019 can take on mid-scale projects that don\u2019t get tackled by academia, venture capitalists or government labs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A type of non-profit start-up could be a better way to support projects that enable research. These would have full-time scientists, engineers and executives, and total funding of about US$20 million to $100 million that would last around 5 years \u2014 longer than most grants or venture-capital funding rounds allow. And they would be set [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}