Ken Griffin (L) and Eric Schmidt (R)Aaron Kotowski for Forbes (left) ‘Focused Research Organizations’ aim to provide useful information to the scientific community in areas that currently aren’t being served by academia or business. When it comes to scientific research, bigger can often be better. A lot of what we know about the world today is thanks to huge, multi-billion dollar projects that involved the work of thousands of scientists. Think the Human Genome Project, or the Large Hadron Collider or the Apollo Program: These were large-scale, focused projects with singular goals in mind, yielding tons of scientific progress on the road to achieving them. Not every scientific problem needs to be solved on this scale, of course. But if you look around the landscape, you don’t see many of these problems being tackled at all. Commer… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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