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A Beginner’s Guide to Scientific Roadmapping

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How do we find those catalytic projects? One way is by surveying the landscape of science and creating roadmaps that show us how to navigate the tech tree before us. There are bottlenecks choking progress in virtually every scientific field, and you can identify these with a good roadmap. Once you know where they are, you can conduct research to break through these bottlenecks (or find clever ways to route around them) and unlock essential technologies. Often this unblocking and rerouting requires coordinated leaps forward — projects at such a scale that individual researchers, traditional institutions, and single grants simply cannot tackle alone. Identifying scientific bottlenecks requires a special kind of forward-looking judgment. You have to look down the road at what will be made possible by unlocking the particular node on the tech tree you’re contemplating or routing around. Even if it’s unsexy or particularly thorny, you have to judge the value of solving a challenge now by th

A Beginner’s Guide to Scientific Roadmapping Wonderful maps and how to read them Adam Marblestone Mar 21, 2025 72 2 15 Share Science needs more catalytic projects so that we can build essential technologies . How do we find those catalytic projects? One way is by surveying the landscape of science and creating roadmaps that show us how to navigate the tech tree before us. There are bottlenecks choking progress in virtually every scientific field, and you can identify these with a good roadmap. Once you know where they are, you can conduct research to break through these bottlenecks (or find cl

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