3. Transformed Landscape
• Science, technology and medicine
have huge social impact
• Rate of discovery is outpacing the
research funding process
• Current grant process is labored
with low application success rates
• A generational gap is emerging –
young researchers disenfranchised
• Ripe to transition from a ‘Guild’ to
a self organizing social graph
4. Institutional grant
success rate<11%
89%>89% of grants denied, though most are
important research opportunities
Research Opportunities Exceed
Available Grants
Leading labs and their research leaders have
many more promising projects than they can
fund from their successful grants
5. How Do We Accelerate
Discovery and Sharing?
“The new era brings with it urgent forces, fueled by the
explosion in information, collaboration and mobility. These
forces are innovative and disruptive just taken on their
own, but brought together they are revolutionizing business
and society.” - Peter Sondergaard, SVP, Gartner 10/11
6. Commerce Through The Crowd
$200M+ run rate
Far exceeds money raised for the arts by
NEA
$139,535,778
The intersection of shopping and
doing good
7. iAMscientist Will Change Research
• Projects are vetted by the “crowd” and
funded on a peer to peer basis. Small PI
initiated projects can blaze a new trail
• New directions and new hypotheses
lacking preliminary evidence can be
quickly executed and shared
• Innovative newcomers, even in the best
labs, have difficulty getting promising
passion projects funded
8. Posting a Project on iAMscientist
• Short title with a maximum of 50 characters
• One-sentence description which will appear in project thumbnails
• 250 word maximum description of the project
• 150 word maximum description of the anticipated goal/impact/deliverable or
product
• An accompanying video that captures the passion of the PI and the essence of the
project
While we do not require a full proposal, we highly encourage posters to submit a full
proposal that can be read by potential donors. We have made a downloadable
template. Having a full proposal makes the project specific and often clarifies
important questions in the minds of colleagues, donors and institutional backers
11. .
Concentric Rings of Funding
4
3
2
1
1 Outlook Database – Friends,
Family Colleagues
2 iAMscientist Database -
Peer to Peer Support
3 Social Networking –
LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook
4 Search WorldWideWeb –
Personal Affinity
…and, attract institutional funding
12. iAMScientist Business Model
• 5% commission on funds raised
from individual donors
• Neither iAMscientist nor funders
have any IP interest
• Pass through of credit card fees
Editor's Notes
“divergent thinking, the freedom to go off in different directions…rejecting the old solution and striking out in some new direction.” Getzel and Jackson
Scientific progress had been seen primarily as "development-by-accumulation" of accepted facts and theories. Kuhn argued for an episodic model in which periods of such conceptual continuity in normal science were interrupted by periods of revolutionary science. During revolutions in science the discovery of anomalies leads to a whole new paradigm that changes the rules of the game and the "map" directing new research, asks new questions of old data, and moves beyond the puzzle-solving of normal science.[1]
