Anna Goldstein Quoted in Science’s Article About The UK’s Recently Formed Advanced Research & Invention Agency (ARIA)

The United Kingdom’s recently formed Advanced Research & Invention Agency (ARIA) today announced the eight program directors who will each oversee up to £50 million for “high-risk, high-reward” research.

The effort, modeled on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that is credited with the development of a range of critical technologies including the internet and GPS, aims to fund ambitious U.K. research. Program directors will have the freedom to pursue projects with huge potential but a high chance of failure.

The naming of the directors provides the first hints of what those projects might be. “The program directors will likely fund research in areas they know well, so we can see signals of where the agency is headed,” says Anna Goldstein, director of impact at Prime Coalition, a nonprofit based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who gave guidance to U.K. politicians about how to build a successful DARPA-like agency.

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