INSTITUTE FOR PROGRESS
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Mission Statement
The Institute for Progress (IFP) is a non-partisan think tank focused on innovation policy. Our organization works to accelerate and shape the direction of scientific, technological, and industrial progress. Headquartered in Washington D.C., IFP works with policymakers across the political spectrum to make it easier to build the future in the United States.
About This Cause
The Institute for Progress (IFP) is a non-partisan think tank focused on innovation policy. Our organization works to accelerate and shape the direction of scientific, technological, and industrial progress. We work primarily on five policy verticals: Metascience — How can we change the incentives and institutions within science to produce more breakthrough research? High-Skilled Immigration — How can we attract and retain superstar talent from around the world? Biotechnology — How can we prevent future pandemics and accelerate progress in the life sciences? Infrastructure — How can we make it easier to build things in the world of atoms? Emerging Technology — How can we shape the frontier of technological development and deployment? Across our policy verticals, there are also overlapping themes that inform our work, including the need to rebuild state capacity, think more proactively about the path dependencies in technology, develop better understandings of legal authorities that enable flexible executive action, and frameworks for more effective government procurement. Within the landscape of innovation policy, we prioritize issues that are: Important — if we achieved our goals for this issue, would it really matter? Tractable — is there a window of opportunity for us to make progress on this issue right now? Neglected — are a lot of other people already working on this issue? This framework is useful both for selecting between high-level focus areas (e.g., high-skilled immigration vs. healthcare reform) and also within topic areas (e.g., pushing for comprehensive immigration reform in Congress vs. clarifying executive actions on underleveraged visa pathways).