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Inspirations and References
Project Aeon is heavily informed by history, research, personal experiences of the team and other operating & investment models currently in use. Below you will find a non-comprehensive and periodically-updated list of public sources, references and background materials. Many of our other sources are private and, unfortunately, cannot be shared.
Inclusion in this list does not directly endorse some or all of the approaches, ideas, etc. contained within; instead, we can only be certain that we’ve learned something, good or bad, from each.
50 references
White Paper
A Vision of Metascience
Read at scienceplusplus.org: A Vision of MetascienceBook
Abundance
Read at simonandschuster.com: AbundanceAcademic Paper
Age and Great Invention
Read at kellogg.northwestern.edu: Age and Great InventionAcademic Paper
Appropriability and the Timing of Innovation: Evidence from MIT Inventions
Read at nber.org: Appropriability and the Timing of Innovation: Evidence from MIT InventionsResearch Organization
Arc Institute
Read at arcinstitute.org: Arc InstituteAcademic Paper
Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
Read at nber.org: Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?Pre-Publishing Platform
ArXIV
Read at arxiv.org: ArXIVResearch Organization
Astera Institute
Read at astera.org: Astera InstituteBook
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
Read at press.stripe.com: Boom: Bubbles and the End of StagnationNetwork
Breakthrough Energy
Read at breakthroughenergy.org: Breakthrough EnergyResearch Organization
Convergent Research
Read at convergentresearch.org: Convergent ResearchResearch Organization
DARPA
Read at darpa.mil: DARPAAcademic Paper
Does Peer Review Penalize Scientific Risk Taking?
Read at nber.org: Does Peer Review Penalize Scientific Risk Taking?Academic Paper
Does the NIH Fund Edge Science?
Read at nber.org: Does the NIH Fund Edge Science?Research Organization
Fast Grants
Read at fastgrants.org: Fast GrantsInvestment Firm
First Round Capital
Read at firstround.com: First Round CapitalArticle
Google X and the Science of Radical Creativity
Read at theatlantic.com: Google X and the Science of Radical CreativityBook
How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
Read at mattridley.co.uk: How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in FreedomResearch Organization
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Read at hhmi.org: Howard Hughes Medical InstituteAcademic Paper
Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences
Read at nber.org: Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life SciencesInvestment Firm
Intellectual Ventures
Read at intellectualventures.com: Intellectual VenturesAcademic Letter
Large Teams Develop and Small Teams Disrupt Science and Technology
Read at lingfeiwu.github.io: Large Teams Develop and Small Teams Disrupt Science and TechnologyInvestment Firm
Lux Capital
Read at luxcapital.com: Lux CapitalFellowship
MacArthur Fellows
Read at macfound.org: MacArthur FellowsFellowship
Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
Read at packard.org: Packard Fellowship for Science and EngineeringAcademic Paper
Papers and Patents Are Becoming Less Disruptive Over Time
Read at scienovate.com: Papers and Patents Are Becoming Less Disruptive Over TimeBook
Pasteur’s Quadrant
Read at brookings.edu: Pasteur’s QuadrantAcademic Paper
Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules
Read at nber.org: Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding RulesFellowship
Schmidt Science Fellows
Read at schmidtsciencefellows.org: Schmidt Science FellowsAcademic Paper
Science and Innovation: The Under-Fueled Engine of Prosperity
Read at kellogg.northwestern.edu: Science and Innovation: The Under-Fueled Engine of ProsperityBook
Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization
Read at press.stripe.com: Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of CivilizationResearch Organization
Speculative Technologies
Read at spec.tech: Speculative TechnologiesBook
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Read at penguinrandomhouse.com: The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the WorldAcademic Paper
The Changing Structure of American Innovation: Some Cautionary Remarks for Economic Growth
Read at nber.org: The Changing Structure of American Innovation: Some Cautionary Remarks for Economic GrowthBook
The Entrepreneurial State
Read at penguinrandomhouse.com: The Entrepreneurial StateArticle
The Future Postponed
Read at aaas.org: The Future PostponedBook
The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions
Read at hup.harvard.edu: The Genesis of Technoscientific RevolutionsBook
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Read at penguinrandomhouse.com: The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American InnovationBook
The Nature of Technology
Read at sites.santafe.edu: The Nature of TechnologyAcademic Paper
The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age
Read at nber.org: The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden AgeArticle
The Strong Researcher Hypothesis
Read at macroscience.org: The Strong Researcher HypothesisBook
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Read at press.uchicago.edu: The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsWhite Paper
Unbundling the University
Read at blog.spec.tech: Unbundling the UniversityArticle
What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs?
Read at construction-physics.com: What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs?Article
When RAND Made Magic in Santa Monica
Read at asteriskmag.com: When RAND Made Magic in Santa MonicaAcademic Paper
Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation
Read at nber.org: Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to InnovationArticle
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
Read at library.hbs.edu: Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in UniversitiesBook
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Read at link.springer.com: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the ObjectiveInvestment Firm
Y-Combinator
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