iAMscientistFunding Research. Sharing Discoveries.

CreatingNetworkedScience

“Most labs make no systematic effort to share data

with other scientists.” - Michael Nielsen, Physicist, Wall Street

Journal

Transformed Landscape• Science, technology and

medicine have huge social impact

• Rate of discovery is outpacing the research funding process

• Current grant process is labored with low application success rates

• A generational gap is emerging – young researchers disenfranchised

• Ripe to transition from a ‘Guild’ to a self organizing social graph

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89% of grants denied, though most are important research opportunities

Research Opportunities Exceed Available Grants

Leading labs and their research leaders have many more promising projects than they can fund from their successful grants

How Do We Accelerate Discovery and Sharing?

“The new era brings with it urgent forces, fueled by

the explosion in information, collaboration and

mobility. These forces are innovative and disruptive

just taken on their own, but brought together they are

revolutionizing business and society.” - Peter Sondergaard, SVP, Gartner 10/11

Commerce Through The Crowd

$200M+ run rateFar exceeds money raised for the arts by NEA

$139,535,778 The intersection of shopping and doing good

iAMscientist Will Change Research

• Projects are vetted by the “crowd” and funded on a peer to peer basis. Small PI initiated projects can blaze a new trail

• New directions and new hypotheses lacking preliminary evidence can be quickly executed and shared

• Innovative newcomers, even in the best labs, have difficulty getting promising passion projects funded

Posting a Project on iAMscientist• Short title with a maximum of 50 characters

• One-sentence description which will appear in project thumbnails

• 250 word maximum description of the project

• 150 word maximum description of the anticipated goal/impact/deliverable or product

• An accompanying video that captures the passion of the PI and the essence of the project

While we do not require a full proposal, we highly encourage posters to submit a full proposal that can be read by potential donors. We have made a downloadable template. Having a full proposal makes the project specific and often clarifies important questions in the minds of colleagues, donors and institutional backers

Diamondback Terrapin and Surfacing Behavior Project

Replacing Geotextiles in place of Antifouling Paints for Coastal Biocoenoses Project

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Concentric Rings of Funding

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1 Outlook Database – Friends, Family Colleagues

2 iAMscientist Database - Peer to Peer Support

3 Social Networking – LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook

4 Search WorldWideWeb – Personal Affinity

…and, attract institutional funding

iAMScientist Business Model

• 5% commission on funds raised from individual donors

• Neither iAMscientist nor funders have any IP interest

• Pass through of credit card fees