Open Philanthropy and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation are launching a new model of scholarly communication — pop-up journals, which curate and synthesize evidence around important, decision-relevant questions in economics.
We invite organizations to apply for a five-year contract to curate the first pop-up journal, focused on the "Griliches Question" (estimating the social return on R&D investment).
We also invite researchers to apply for support on research related to the Griliches Question. More on both opportunities below!
Curate a Pop-Up Journal
If your organization is prepared to curate a pop-up journal focused on returns from R&D, we invite you to apply for a five-year contract.
What curation entails:
- Enlist a steering committee, consisting of expert scholars and prominent decision-makers.
- Refine the "big question" by formulating and sharing testable hypotheses.
- Inspire, locate, and facilitate work that contributes to answering the Griliches question.
- Measure progress toward an actionable resolution.
- Curate and distribute multiple issues of the journal.
Any organization that can demonstrate these capabilities is welcome to apply — including (but not limited to) professional societies, libraries, publishers, and academic institutions.
Learn MoreConduct Research on the Griliches Question
Alongside the launch of the pop-up journal, Open Philanthropy, the Sloan Foundation, and several other funders are looking to support primary research that can rigorously contribute to developing consensus estimates of returns from R&D.
If your research is relevant to this question, we encourage you to submit your ideas!
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