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View all Emerging Technology articles Spotlight research High-Skilled Immigration The Talent Scout State How the U.S. can proactively recruit high-potential immigrants Read the full report May 1st 2024 / By Jeremy Neufeld and Hamidah Oderinwale Emerging Technology How to Make the NSTC a Moonshot Success The new National Semiconductor Technology Center can reshape America’s semiconductor industry Read the full report April 22nd 2024 / By Arrian Ebrahimi and Jordan Schneider Infrastructure How Cost Allocation Works for Transmission Lines Why it matters, and why it shouldn’t stop the clean energy buildout Read the full report April 19th 2024 / By Brian Potter Biotechnology Mapping America’s Biosurveillance A comprehensive visual map of the entities that monitor biological threats across the U.S. federal government Read the full report April 3rd 2024 / By Arielle D’Souza and Janika Schmitt Read more recent publications See all our work Infrastructure Moving Past Environmental Proceduralism If the activists of fifty years ago had known what we know now, what might they have done differently? Read the full report April 22nd 2024 / By Alec Stapp and Brian Potter Infrastructure How to Be a Policy Entrepreneur in the American Vetocracy A review of "Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better," by Jennifer Pahlka Read the full report April 2nd 2024 / By Alec Stapp Come Work with IFP IFP is currently hiring for a variety of roles across the organization — join the team! Read the full report March 20th 2024 / By Alec Stapp and Caleb Watney Infrastructure How to Save America’s Transmission System The overwhelming priority of energy policy must be making it easier to build things Read the full report February 22nd 2024 / By Brian Potter Metascience Progress Deferred: Lessons From mRNA Vaccine Development We can restructure science funding to help breakthrough research translate more quickly Read the full report February 20th 2024 / By Tim Hwang Metascience The ARPA Model: A Reading List A comprehensive syllabus on the ARPA model and its family tree Read the full report January 31st 2024 / By Janika Schmitt and Jacob Swett High-Skilled Immigration Create Your Own Data-Driven Update to Schedule A Plan an update to the government’s shortage occupation list in a new interactive app Read the full report January 25th 2024 / By Lindsay Milliken , Jeremy Neufeld , and Greg Wright Biotechnology Congress Can Improve our Pandemic Preparedness Strengthening the Federal Select Agent Program would mean better oversight of biotech laboratories Read the full report January 18th 2024 / By Alec Stapp and Arielle D’Souza High-Skilled Immigration Modernizing the H-1B Program A response to DHS’ proposed changes to better support regional innovation and emerging technology career development Read the full report December 22nd 2023 / By Amy Nice , Jeremy Neufeld , and Lindsay Milliken Infrastructure The Policy Interventions that Could Boost Geothermal Part Four of Hot Rocks: Commercializing Next-Generation Geothermal Energy Read the full report December 21st 2023 / By Arnab Datta and Ashley George High-Skilled Immigration Help Wanted: Modernizing the Schedule A Shortage Occupation List A new data-driven method to identify gaps in the labor market Read the full report December 14th 2023 / By Lindsay Milliken , Jeremy Neufeld , and Greg Wright Biotechnology Using PAHPA to Address Biosecurity Threats A letter to House and Senate health committee leaders on making sure PAHPA mitigates biosecurity risks Read the full report November 20th 2023 / By Arielle D’Souza Keep up to date with IFP Subscribe to our newsletter We’ll send you a monthly roundup of IFP research, news, and updates at the beginning of each month. 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