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01 · Computational Commerce & Economic Coordination
Research agenda
Commerce as Computation
Formal models for representing commercial relationships, state transitions and coordination across multiple actors.
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Ninety public-facing programs across one connected research system.
From frontier questions to real-world impact, our research programs explore how people, institutions and intelligent systems can build a more open, resilient and prosperous world.
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Our Program Structure
From research areas to real-world progress.
Our 90 research programs are organised across 18 research areas, each designed to explore important questions, develop practical solutions and generate open public outputs.
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90Research programs
Focused on high-impact questions and real-world applications.
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AI, commerce, physical systems, people and policy.
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Featured Research Programs
Programs for a more open and prosperous world.
Coordination Mechanisms
Area 01Mechanisms that help people, firms, institutions and machines coordinate under incomplete information and asymmetric incentives.
Commerce Graphs
Area 04Temporal, multi-relational representations of companies, products, facilities, transactions, finance, logistics, regulation and outcomes.
Commerce State
Area 04Time-indexed state with source, authority, confidence, history and evidence.
CommerceBench Evaluation Science
Area 05Benchmarks for commerce knowledge, reasoning, compliance, negotiation, finance, logistics, fraud and evidence.
CommerceGym Training Environments
Area 05Controlled environments in which agents can learn workflows, policy constraints and recovery behavior.
CommerceArena Multi-Agent Experiments
Area 05Experimental markets where multiple economic actors interact under explicit rules.
Capability Verification
Area 06Evidence that a supplier, factory or service provider can perform a specific commercial task.
Procurement & Selling Intelligence
Area 07AI support for need definition, sourcing, qualification, negotiation and supplier-side market development.
Cross-Border Money & Settlement
Area 08Interoperable payment and settlement approaches for multi-currency commerce.
Product Identity
Area 10Methods for linking products, components, batches and physical identifiers across commercial systems.
Country-Native Commerce Intelligence
Area 11Research into country-specific law, payments, logistics, institutions, language and commercial practice.
Climate & Supply Network Intelligence
Area 14Dynamic links between climate hazards, agriculture, infrastructure, ports and industrial production.
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Our research programs are linked across research areas, shared infrastructure, data and methods — multiplying insight and real-world impact.
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How programs become public outputs.
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Define the program
Identify important questions and real-world needs.
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Research and build
Develop methods, data, models and evaluation environments.
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Open research, datasets, tools and insights.
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Work with partners to test, adopt and expand impact.
All Research Programs
Browse the 90-program research system.
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01 · Computational Commerce & Economic Coordination
Research agenda
Economic Intent & Outcome Science
How goals, constraints, preferences, authority and uncertainty can be represented—and how successful economic outcomes should be measured.
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01 · Computational Commerce & Economic Coordination
Exploratory
Coordination Mechanisms
Mechanisms that help people, firms, institutions and machines coordinate under incomplete information and asymmetric incentives.
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01 · Computational Commerce & Economic Coordination
Research agenda
Computable Economic Institutions
Research into contracts, registries, reputation, dispute processes and market rules that can become more machine-readable while remaining accountable.
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01 · Computational Commerce & Economic Coordination
Research agenda
Commerce Complexity & Friction
Measurement of information, trust, regulatory, financial, semantic, logistics and institutional friction across commercial journeys.
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02 · Commerce-Native Artificial Intelligence
Research agenda
Commerce Foundation Models
Research into model adaptation for durable competence in commerce across documents, products, firms and events.
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02 · Commerce-Native Artificial Intelligence
Exploratory
Commerce Reasoning
Evaluation of constraint satisfaction, risk-aware planning, regulatory reasoning, sourcing, pricing and other commercial decisions.
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02 · Commerce-Native Artificial Intelligence
Research agenda
Commercial Memory & Context
Long-horizon context that preserves relevant history without allowing stale information to masquerade as current state.
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02 · Commerce-Native Artificial Intelligence
Research agenda
Country & Domain Adaptation
How models can respect country, language, industry and institutional differences without losing global interoperability.
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02 · Commerce-Native Artificial Intelligence
Research agenda
Scientific Discovery from Commerce Data
Using AI to identify patterns, hypotheses and hidden structures while clearly separating correlation from evidence.
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03 · Agentic & Autonomous Commerce
Exploratory
Conversational Commerce Intelligence
How people express incomplete commercial intent and how systems should clarify missing constraints.
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03 · Agentic & Autonomous Commerce
Research agenda
Commerce Missions & Long-Horizon Agents
Persistent economic work that may last hours, weeks or months while preserving state, approvals and dependencies.
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03 · Agentic & Autonomous Commerce
Research agenda
Delegated Authority
Permissions, budgets, approval thresholds, revocation and emergency stop for economic agents.
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03 · Agentic & Autonomous Commerce
Research agenda
Agent-to-Agent Commerce
Interaction between agents representing buyers, sellers, banks, logistics firms and institutions.
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03 · Agentic & Autonomous Commerce
Exploratory
Human-Agent Operating Modes
When human-led, AI-assisted or delegated operation is appropriate based on consequence, complexity and reversibility.
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04 · Commerce Graphs, State & World Models
Research agenda
Commerce Graphs
Temporal, multi-relational representations of companies, products, facilities, transactions, finance, logistics, regulation and outcomes.
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04 · Commerce Graphs, State & World Models
Research agenda
Commerce State
Time-indexed state with source, authority, confidence, history and evidence.
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04 · Commerce Graphs, State & World Models
Research agenda
Commerce World Models
Simulation of transactions, supply networks, policy changes, shocks and strategic behavior.
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04 · Commerce Graphs, State & World Models
Exploratory
Causal Commerce
Methods for distinguishing structural drivers from correlated commercial signals.
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04 · Commerce Graphs, State & World Models
Research agenda
Economic Digital Twins
Firm, corridor, port, supply-chain, country and industry models that can be updated from evidence.
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05 · Evaluation & Experimental Economies
Research agenda
CommerceBench Evaluation Science
Benchmarks for commerce knowledge, reasoning, compliance, negotiation, finance, logistics, fraud and evidence.
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05 · Evaluation & Experimental Economies
Research agenda
CommerceGym Training Environments
Controlled environments in which agents can learn workflows, policy constraints and recovery behavior.
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05 · Evaluation & Experimental Economies
Exploratory
CommerceArena Multi-Agent Experiments
Experimental markets where multiple economic actors interact under explicit rules.
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05 · Evaluation & Experimental Economies
Research agenda
Safety & Formal Evaluation
Invariant tests, red-team scenarios and formal checks for consequential agent actions.
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05 · Evaluation & Experimental Economies
Research agenda
Economic Evaluation Methodology
Metrics that combine correctness with cost, delay, risk, human burden and real transaction success.
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06 · Trust, Identity & Verifiable Commerce
Research agenda
Economic Identity & Authority
Identity for people, firms, facilities, agents and machines, including role and authority to act.
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06 · Trust, Identity & Verifiable Commerce
Exploratory
Capability Verification
Evidence that a supplier, factory or service provider can perform a specific commercial task.
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06 · Trust, Identity & Verifiable Commerce
Research agenda
Commercial Fraud Intelligence
Research into impersonation, forged records, payment diversion, synthetic evidence and other forms of commercial deception.
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06 · Trust, Identity & Verifiable Commerce
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Physical Evidence & Commercial Truth
Methods for connecting observations and measurements to claims that can support commercial decisions.
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06 · Trust, Identity & Verifiable Commerce
Research agenda
Economic Cybersecurity & Recovery
Protection and recovery for commerce state, credentials, payment instructions and machine interfaces.
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07 · Markets, Procurement & Human Commerce
Exploratory
Market Liquidity Science
Measurement of qualified demand, response quality, repeat trade and execution performance across categories and corridors.
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07 · Markets, Procurement & Human Commerce
Research agenda
Search, Discovery & Recommendation
Retrieval that considers specification, capability, landed cost, geography, regulation, trust and intent.
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07 · Markets, Procurement & Human Commerce
Research agenda
Procurement & Selling Intelligence
AI support for need definition, sourcing, qualification, negotiation and supplier-side market development.
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07 · Markets, Procurement & Human Commerce
Research agenda
Live & Relationship Commerce
Research into live interaction, translation, shared evidence and relationship state.
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07 · Markets, Procurement & Human Commerce
Exploratory
Protected & Controlled Trade
Mechanisms that reduce fraud and leakage while preserving legitimate human contact and brand-building.
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08 · Finance & Economic Systems
Research agenda
Agentic Payments & Delegated Settlement
How agents can act within purpose, amount, timing and evidence constraints.
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08 · Finance & Economic Systems
Research agenda
Cross-Border Money & Settlement
Interoperable payment and settlement approaches for multi-currency commerce.
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08 · Finance & Economic Systems
Research agenda
AI-Native Trade Finance
Credit and financing models informed by verified transaction progress and evidence.
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08 · Finance & Economic Systems
Exploratory
Insurance & Computational Risk Transfer
Risk transfer informed by changing production, logistics, quality and compliance state.
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08 · Finance & Economic Systems
Research agenda
Capital Formation & Infrastructure Finance
Financing structures for commerce infrastructure, data, hardware, corridors and industrial capacity.
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09 · Physical Commerce, Manufacturing & Logistics
Research agenda
Trusted Commerce Hardware
Research into secure devices, inspection systems and physical observation infrastructure.
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09 · Physical Commerce, Manufacturing & Logistics
Research agenda
Machine-Observed Commerce
Turning sensor, vision, location, dimension, environmental and other signals into economically meaningful events.
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09 · Physical Commerce, Manufacturing & Logistics
Exploratory
Manufacturing Intelligence
Research into capacity, production progress, quality, machine health and delivery risk.
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09 · Physical Commerce, Manufacturing & Logistics
Research agenda
Logistics & Mobility Intelligence
Routing and exception management under cost, reliability, capacity, border and geopolitical constraints.
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09 · Physical Commerce, Manufacturing & Logistics
Research agenda
Robotics & Physical AI
Inspection, handling, counting, measurement and other physical tasks that may produce commercial evidence.
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10 · Product Intelligence, Quality & Lifecycle Responsibility
Research agenda
Product Identity
Methods for linking products, components, batches and physical identifiers across commercial systems.
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10 · Product Intelligence, Quality & Lifecycle Responsibility
Exploratory
Quality & Conformity Intelligence
Machine-readable representation of standards, tolerances, tests, certifications and measured results.
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10 · Product Intelligence, Quality & Lifecycle Responsibility
Research agenda
Product Passports & Lifecycle State
Interoperable product records spanning compliance, repair, ownership, sustainability and provenance.
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10 · Product Intelligence, Quality & Lifecycle Responsibility
Research agenda
Intelligent Packaging & Product Responsibility
Packaging as identity, evidence, sensing and communication infrastructure.
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10 · Product Intelligence, Quality & Lifecycle Responsibility
Research agenda
Responsible Sourcing & Human Rights
Evidence models for labor, environmental and ethical sourcing claims.
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11 · Country-Native Commerce & Public Infrastructure
Exploratory
Country-Native Commerce Intelligence
Research into country-specific law, payments, logistics, institutions, language and commercial practice.
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11 · Country-Native Commerce & Public Infrastructure
Research agenda
Regulation as Compute
Representing rules with jurisdiction, effective date, exceptions, authority and uncertainty.
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11 · Country-Native Commerce & Public Infrastructure
Research agenda
Computational Law & Contracting
Machine-readable obligations, remedies and reviewable commercial terms.
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11 · Country-Native Commerce & Public Infrastructure
Research agenda
Digital Public Infrastructure for Commerce
Registries, identity, licensing, customs and other public services that can interoperate safely with economic systems.
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11 · Country-Native Commerce & Public Infrastructure
Exploratory
Sovereign AI & Data Governance
Federation, local execution, data residency and cross-border sharing of derived evidence.
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12 · Data, Semantics & Interoperability
Research agenda
Commerce Language & Ontologies
Controlled concepts for principals, products, capabilities, state, authority, evidence, actions and outcomes.
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12 · Data, Semantics & Interoperability
Research agenda
Commerce Protocols & Standards
Interoperable patterns for discovery, requests, offers, negotiation, authority, evidence, fulfillment and settlement.
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12 · Data, Semantics & Interoperability
Research agenda
Search & Retrieval Science
Retrieval across structured data, documents, current state, rules and evidence.
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12 · Data, Semantics & Interoperability
Exploratory
Economic Knowledge Infrastructure
Provenance-aware knowledge that preserves version, source, authority and contradiction.
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12 · Data, Semantics & Interoperability
Research agenda
Semantic Friction & Translation
Measurement and reduction of losses created by language, units, classifications and schema mismatch.
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13 · Frontier Compute, Security & Privacy
Research agenda
Commerce Compute Economics
Cost, latency, energy and reliability of AI inference as an economic input.
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13 · Frontier Compute, Security & Privacy
Research agenda
Trusted Economic Compute
Secure execution, attestation and hardware-assisted trust for consequential commerce.
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13 · Frontier Compute, Security & Privacy
Exploratory
Connectivity & Offline Commerce
Commercial operation across low-bandwidth, intermittent, remote and disconnected environments.
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13 · Frontier Compute, Security & Privacy
Research agenda
Post-Quantum & Crypto Agility
Migration paths for long-lived identities, signatures, devices and evidence.
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13 · Frontier Compute, Security & Privacy
Research agenda
Privacy-Preserving Commerce
Selective disclosure, federated computation and other methods for reducing unnecessary data exposure.
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14 · Climate, Energy, Geospatial & Mobility Intelligence
Research agenda
Climate & Supply Network Intelligence
Dynamic links between climate hazards, agriculture, infrastructure, ports and industrial production.
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14 · Climate, Energy, Geospatial & Mobility Intelligence
Exploratory
Energy-Aware Commerce
Economic decisions that consider energy price, reliability, carbon intensity and grid constraints.
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14 · Climate, Energy, Geospatial & Mobility Intelligence
Research agenda
Geospatial Commerce Intelligence
Use of satellite, aerial and ground observation to estimate activity, capacity, congestion and disruption.
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14 · Climate, Energy, Geospatial & Mobility Intelligence
Research agenda
Mobility & Autonomous Logistics
Research into vehicles, ports, capacity markets and autonomous movement under safety and regulatory constraints.
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14 · Climate, Energy, Geospatial & Mobility Intelligence
Research agenda
Space & Off-Earth Commerce
Long-horizon research into orbital logistics, remote-sensing markets and extreme-latency economic coordination.
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15 · Human-Centered Commerce, Labor & Inclusion
Exploratory
Human Agency & Commerce Experience
When people want explanation, control, negotiation and relationship rather than delegation.
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15 · Human-Centered Commerce, Labor & Inclusion
Research agenda
Social, Community & Live Commerce
How communities, live interaction and social information shape trust and demand.
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15 · Human-Centered Commerce, Labor & Inclusion
Research agenda
Labor & Human Capital
How AI changes trade, procurement, compliance, logistics and commercial professions.
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15 · Human-Centered Commerce, Labor & Inclusion
Research agenda
Inclusion & Accessibility
Whether intelligent commerce reduces barriers for SMEs, low-resource languages, underbanked users and remote regions.
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15 · Human-Centered Commerce, Labor & Inclusion
Exploratory
Ethics, Rights & Economic Dignity
Protections against discriminatory ranking, coercive surveillance, opaque exclusion and excessive delegation.
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16 · Macroeconomic Intelligence, Market Design & Resilience
Research agenda
Real-Time Economic Sensing
Nowcasting from trade, logistics, inventory, payment and production signals.
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16 · Macroeconomic Intelligence, Market Design & Resilience
Research agenda
Systemic Risk & Contagion
How financial, supplier, cyber, climate and geopolitical shocks propagate through commercial networks.
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16 · Macroeconomic Intelligence, Market Design & Resilience
Research agenda
Autonomous Market Design
Mechanism design for humans and agents operating under much lower search and negotiation costs.
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16 · Macroeconomic Intelligence, Market Design & Resilience
Exploratory
Resource Markets & Scarcity
Allocation of compute, energy, logistics capacity, industrial inputs and skilled labor under constraint.
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16 · Macroeconomic Intelligence, Market Design & Resilience
Research agenda
Policy & Macro Simulation
Uncertainty-aware experiments for tariffs, sanctions, taxes, subsidies and infrastructure changes.
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17 · Research Systems, Institutions & Scientific Authority
Research agenda
Research Organization & Scientific Operations
Review, reproducibility, research-data and publication systems for industrial research.
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17 · Research Systems, Institutions & Scientific Authority
Research agenda
Research-to-Product Architecture
Capability gates that determine whether work should become a product, infrastructure, standard, patent or open publication.
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17 · Research Systems, Institutions & Scientific Authority
Exploratory
Intellectual Property & Open Science
Decision frameworks for openness, protected implementation, patents and trade secrets.
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17 · Research Systems, Institutions & Scientific Authority
Research agenda
Capital & Institutional Scale
How grants, strategic capital, equipment finance and other resources support different research stages.
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17 · Research Systems, Institutions & Scientific Authority
Research agenda
Institutional Authority & Continuity
Research memory, governance, succession and evidence-based authority across long time horizons.
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18 · Frontier Economic Institutions & Long-Horizon Commerce
Research agenda
Machine Economic Institutions
Identity, authority, liability and governance for institutions that include autonomous software actors.
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18 · Frontier Economic Institutions & Long-Horizon Commerce
Exploratory
Post-Platform Commerce
Commerce that operates across interoperable protocols rather than a single dominant interface.
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18 · Frontier Economic Institutions & Long-Horizon Commerce
Research agenda
New Economic Primitives
Research into trust, capability, evidence, compute, resilience and optionality as economic resources.
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18 · Frontier Economic Institutions & Long-Horizon Commerce
Research agenda
Civilization-Scale Coordination
Long-horizon coordination for food, medicine, climate adaptation, industrial capacity and other shared challenges.
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18 · Frontier Economic Institutions & Long-Horizon Commerce
Research agenda
Unknown-Unknown Discovery
Observatories and processes designed to detect important technological or institutional discontinuities.
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