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Randomized Funding · Anil Varanasi

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We are seeing a great renaissance in new funding models1, grant programs2, and moving back (hopefully!) to “fund people, not projects”3. A lot of these initiatives bring an easy, non-bureaucratic application process to get funding. How applicants are selected is still largely the same. Though there isn’t a full RCT selecting applicants to fund at random, there have been a few attempts at randomized funding: Please send any novel attempts at application selection. This seems like a ripe area for experimentation! FROs, PARPA ↩︎ AI Grant, Emergent Ventures, Fast Grants, Helium Grants ↩︎ Fund people not projects by John Ioannidis, Fund people, not projects by José Luis Ricón ↩︎

Randomized Funding · Anil Varanasi Anil Varanasi Randomized Funding We are seeing a great renaissance in new funding models 1 , grant programs 2 , and moving back (hopefully!) to "fund people, not projects" 3 . A lot of these initiatives bring an easy, non-bureaucratic application process to get funding. How applicants are selected is still largely the same. Though there isn’t a full RCT selecting applicants to fund at random, there have been a few attempts at randomized funding: Health Research Council of New Zealand : “The selection of successful proposals will not be the same as that for ot

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