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Organizations with structures worth learning from

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Research Orgs

  • SRI International
  • Willow Garage attempted to do crowdsourced telerobotics
  • Otherlab
  • DeepMind
    • How did they get started
  • OpenAI
  • Intellectual Ventures
  • Xerox PARC
  • Google X
  • Bell Labs
  • Lockheed Skunkworks
  • D.E. Shaw Research
  • Creavis
  • Dynamicland
  • Allen AI Institute
  • Ink and Switch
  • Microsoft Research
  • Santa Fe Institute
  • YC Research
    • Why did they shut down?
  • Media Lab
  • MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
  • Flatiron Institute
  • Actuate
  • Activate/Cyclotron Road
  • Rad Lab
  • Perimeter Institute
  • Semiconductor Research Corporation — SRC

Funding Orgs

  • DARPA and corporate R&D filled overlapping but different niches
  • ARPA-E
  • IARPA
  • X-Prize
  • Research Bridge Partners
  • Gates Foundation
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
  • BP Venture Research
  • Prime Coalition
  • Gitcoin
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Startup Studios

  • 3rd Rock Ventures
  • Flagship Pioneering
  • Idealab
  • Deep Science Ventures
  • Science (Startup Studio
  • Pioneer Square Labs
  • Singularity University
  • Entrepreneur First
  • YCombinator
  • SRI Ventures
  • TandemLaunch
  • Elevate Bio
  • Weiss Institute?

Whitespace Research

  • Lux Research
  • JASON group
  • Polyplexus

Pioneers of new models

  • ARDC
  • Sequoia
  • Venrock

Random

  • Research Seminars dot Org
  • Mozilla Foundation

A Long Tail of Software Studios

  • OIO Studio
  • Other Internet

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