How to start a new research university

# How to start a new research university # How to start a new research university 1. Build up trust with a number of postdocs, really good graduate students, or particularly serious independent researchers. You could do this by refining your taste not around who has good ideas, but around who thinks precisely, is able to be clear about what they want to do etc. or by building trust in people who are able to do this and delegating your trust to them. 2. Buy a giant warehouse or a cluster of them. Doesn’t need to be fancy. 3. Put a machine shop, electronics shop, and data center in the warehouse and staff them with a technical staff <$> 4. Give each researcher a 5-year budget that enables them to buy real equipment and hire assistants. Something like $3M for equipment/lab renovations and then $1M a year for five years would probably do it. 5. The trick is that they’re not allowed to get money anywhere else. If there’s a big piece of shared 6. Tell them they’re allowed to publish things on arXive or the internet to establish priority, but to not waste their time on the peer review system.  [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/How+to+start+a+new+research+university) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/How+to+start+a+new+research+university)