Shifting the imposible to the inevitable: A Private ARPA user manual
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Shifting the imposible to the inevitable: A Private ARPA user manual
Master Plan
In short, PARPA's master plan is:
In short, PARPA's master plan is:
- Create and stress-test unintuitive research programs in a systematic (and therefore repeatable) way.
- Use that credibility to run a handful of research programs and produce results that wouldn't happen otherwise.
- Use that credibility to run more research programs and help them "graduate" to effective
Shifting the imposible to the inevitable: A Private ARPA user manual
Take Home Messages
- A critical niche in the innovation ecosystem once occupied by industrial labs is unfilled.
- The current innovation ecosystem — academia, startups, and modern corporate R&D — do not cut it.
- A private organization that riffs on DARPA's model could fill this niche.
- Private ARPA (PARPA) will de-risk a series of hypotheses and