Current scientific work encourages groupthink.
Funding, and therefore people, are focused on inching towards the first promising solutions to topical problems, meaning other important problems and potentially better solutions are left underexplored.
Novel solutions to global problems
Innovation should be unconstrained
Some of the brightest minds spend as little as 40% of their time solving technical problems.
Writing papers, applying for funding, and managing bureaucracy will not change the world.
Unconstrained Labs provides:
Purpose: Important problems irrespective of how neatly they fit into 'priority areas'.
Resources: Innovation should never be limited by the team, support, and equipment available.
Focus: Researchers should spend all of their time finding and developing real solutions, not writing papers or doing admin.
Efficiency: A team working collaboratively and testing iteratively will progress much faster than separate individuals changing parameters on the same repeat experiment.
Current focus
We are developing a pilot to launch in 2026; we will use the wisdom of crowds to identify the team most likely to develop a novel solution to a globally important problem. That team will focus 100% on testing and developing novel solutions for 1 year: fast iterations, no papers, like a startup.
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