# Possible PARPA Projects # Possible PARPA Projects Number of ⭐ = priority ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1. [[Do a deep dive into the different attempts at algorithmic knowledge generation]] 2. [[A database of all the research happening in the world]]/[[What if you had a list of all the labs in the world?]] ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 3. [[Create a database of “constraint numbers” that are crossover points between one way of doing technology and another]] 4. [[Look at areas where atom-things are starting to look more like software, identify gaps in that process]] 5. [[Build a map of how innovations are funded now and in the past]] 6. [[Build a map of how innovation organizations are structured now and in the past]] 7. [[Write a manifesto about unbundling the university]] 8. [[Dig into people trying different models]] ⭐⭐⭐ 9. [[Do a study of the most valuable IP, the research that led to it, the people that did it, and see if you can pattern match against that]] 10. [[Dig through old hype cycles to see possibilities]] 11. [[Do an exploratory project with the large companies with lowest R&D spend that seem like pillars of the economy]] 12. [[Overview of Material Science Breakthroughs that Unlocked other Breakthroughs]] ⭐⭐ 13. [[Do a survey overview of TTO offices]] 14. [[Pick a starting theme and dig into all the possible quantum leaps that aren’t happening there but could]] 15. [[Map climate as a theme and the possible ecosystem around it]] 16. [[Dig into what defense contractors are doing]] 17. [[Ask VCs to send things that are too crazy or sci fi]] 18. [[Go through current list of Grant calls and see if there’s a way to encode them]] ⭐ 19. [[Collect and generate positive sci-fi visions and encode their enabling technology]] 20. [[Do a series of digital unconferences around different topics]] See [[Project Time Boxes]] for thinking around time boxes ### SUPER VAGUE RELATED * [[Videogames could be used as a pipeline to find talent that did not get caught by the traditional system]] <!-- #list #project --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Possible+PARPA+Projects) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Possible+PARPA+Projects)