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Idea Machines is a deep dive into the systems and people that bring innovations from glimmers in someone's eye all the way to tools, processes, and ideas that can shift paradigms. We see the...
Tim Hwang turns the tables and interviews me (Ben) about Speculative Technologies and research management.
Peter van Hardenberg talks about Industrialists vs. Academics, Ink&Switch's evolution over time, the Hollywood Model, internal lab infrastru...
A conversation with Tim Hwang about historical simulations, the interaction of policy and science, analogies between research ecosystems and...
Nadia Asparouhova talks about idea machines on idea machines! Idea machines, of course, being her framework around societal organisms that t...
Seemay Chou talks about the process of building a new research organization, ticks, hiring and managing entrepreneurial scientists, non-mode...
William Bonvillian does a deep dive about his decades of research on how DARPA works and his more recent work on advanced manufacturing. Wil...
In this conversation, Adam Falk and I talk about running research programs with impact over long timescales, creating new fields, philanthro...
In this conversation, Semon Rezchikov and I talk about what other disciplines can learn from mathematics, creating and cultivating collabora...
Professor Michael Strevens discusses the line between scientific knowledge and everything else, the contrast between what scientists as peop...
A conversation with the VitaDAO core team. VitaDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization — or DAO — that focuses on enabling and fundin...
Dr. Brian Arthur and I talk about how technology can be modeled as a modular and evolving system, combinatorial evolution more broadly and d...
In this Conversation, Jason Crawford and I talk about starting a nonprofit organization, changing conceptions of progress, why 26 years afte...
In this conversation, Dr. Stephen Dean talks about how he created the 1976 US fusion program plan, how it played out and the history of fusi...
Eli Dourado on how the sausage of technology policy is made, the relationship between total factor productivity and technological progress,...
In this conversation I talk to the Amazing Arati Prabhakar about using Solutions R&D to tackle big societal problems, gaps in the innovation...
In this conversation I talk to Ilan Gur about what it really means for technology to "escape the lab", the power of context to shape the use...
In this conversation I talk to Luke Constable about the complicated tapestry of finance, funding projects, incentives, organizational and le...
In this conversation I talk to Donald Braben about his venture research initiative, peer review, and enabling the 21st century equivalents o...
A conversation with Adam Marblestone about his new project - Focused Research Organizations. Focused Research Organizations (FROs) are a new...
Michael Filler and Matthew Realff discuss Fundamental Manufacturing Process innovations. We explore what they are, dig into historical examp...
A conversation with Professor Andrew Odlyzko about the forces that have driven the paradigm changes we've seen across the research world in...
A conversation with Eleonora Vella about getting the right people in the room, finding research on the cusp of commercializability, and gene...
A conversation with Dr Anton Howes about The Royal Society of Arts, cultural factors that drive innovation, and many aspects of historical i...
A conversation with Ashish Arora about how and why the interlocking American institutions that support technological change have evolved ove...
In this episode I talk to Venkatesh Narayanamurti about Bell Labs, running research organizations, and why the distinction between basic and...
In this episode I talk to Adam Marblestone about technology roadmapping, scientific gems hidden in plain sight, and systematically exploring...
In this episode I talk to Jude Gomilla about distributed innovation systems focused especially around the bottom-up response to the coronavi...
Intro In this episode I talk to Joel Chan about cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer, zettlekasten, and too many other things to enumerate....
In this episode I talk to Anna Goldstein about how the ARPA ( A dvanced R esearch P rojects A gency) model works and what makes it unique. W...
In this episode I talk to Jason Crawford about his work on the history of progress, funding and incentivizing inventions, ideas behind their...
In this episode I talk to Eli Velasquez about creating startup ecosystems, commercializing research, especially when it's not necessarily ve...
In this episode I talk to Bill Janeway about previous eras of venture capital and startups, how bubbles drive innovation, the role of govern...
In this episode I talk to Mark Hammond about how Deep Science Ventures works, why the linear commercialization model leaves a lot on the tab...
Alexey Guzey is an independent researcher focusing on how to systemically increase the rate of biology discoveries and the idea that revivin...
Cindy Wu and Denny Luan are the founders of experiment.com - a platform that allows anybody to request funding for a science project and any...
In this episode I talk to Errol Arkilic about different systems involved in turning research into companies. Errol has been helping research...
In this conversation Sam Arbesman and I talk about unlocking cross-disciplinary innovations, long term organizations, combinatorial creativi...
In this episode I speak to Matt Clifford about talent investing, how big long term projects can start small, and financial innovations. Matt...
In this episode I talk to Evan Miyazono about tackling metaresearch questions, how novel physical phenomena go from "oh that's cool" to devi...
In this episode I talk to William Gunn about the guts of science publishing, changing incentives in science, and the relationship between pu...
In this episode I talk to Torben Nielsen about creating new products and systems in health insurance. We touch on the tension between insure...
In this episode I talk to Dr Robert McNutt about medical innovation, medical research and publishing, and patient choice. Robert has been pr...
In this episode I talk to Craig Montouri about nonprofits and politics. Specifically their constraints and possibilities for enabling innova...
Overcast Link. My Guest this week is Mason Peck, Professor of Aerospace and Systems engineering at Cornell University and former Chief Techn...
In this episode I talk to Gary Bradski about the creation of OpenCV, Willow Garage, and how to get around institutional roadblocks. Gary is...
Link to this Episode in Overcast In this episode I talk to Jun Axup about accelerating biotechnology, how to transition people and technolog...
My Guest this week is Adam Wiggins, the cofounder of Ink & Switch — an independent industrial research lab working on digital tools for crea...
My guest this week is Brian Nosek, co-Founder and the Executive Director of the Center for Open Science. Brian is also a professor in the De...
My Guest this week is Malcolm Handley, General Partner and Founder of Strong Atomics. The topic of this conversation is Fusion power - how i...
My guest this week is Mark Micire, group lead for the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA's Ames Research Center. Previously Mark was a progr...