A blueprint for accelerating American science

In case you missed it over the holidays, the Institute for Progress responded to OSTP’s RFI on accelerating science with a wide-ranging set of recommendations. In addition to some metascientific mainstays — like fast grants, program officer empowerment, and multi-stage review — the team highlights the potential of organization-based grants (a model gaining steam at NSF and in Congress), and proposes the creation of agency metascience units dedicated to experimentation and iteration. The latter would be analogous to the UK Metascience Unit.