How to think about the differences between FROs and private ARPA programs
Apologies for the crickets. More news about PARPA coming soon — there’s lots going on but nothing post-worthy … yet. In the meantime, I frequently get the question “What’s the difference between an FRO and PARPA?” so it seems worth exploring. Warning
Apologies for the crickets. More news about PARPA coming soon — there’s lots going on but nothing post-worthy … yet. In the meantime, I frequently get the question “What’s the difference between an FRO and PARPA?” so it seems worth exploring. Warning, this is a bit inside baseball-y. It’s easy to see the difference between ARPA-style programs and Focused Research Organizations as mere semantics. Each structure seeks to achieve similar goals — enabling public-good technical work that would otherwise languish; usually because it is too research-y or creates value that is too hard to capture…
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