Welcome
Open Science Initiative is a non-profit organization that is working to improve innovation and collaboration within science.
We're looking at the process of innovation in science in a new way. One of the primary aims of our initiative is to create a prize-based mechanism for funding research. With prize-based funding, our organization publishes specific objectives to be achieved as conditions to receiving the prize funding. Prizes would be open for competition from all researchers in the scientific community.
Prize-based funding has been very successful in the private sector for stimulating innovation (i.e. X-Prize). However this type of funding mechanism has not been applied in the academic research community. Our aim is to implement academic prizes to encourage a new type of innovation in the scientific community.
Whether you are a scientist or donor, contact us to find out how you can contribute! Also - check out our new Getting Started Guide
Armen Arevian, MD, PhD
Founder, Open Science Initiative
armen@opsci.org
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In the press
Pittsburgh Technology Council interviews Open Science Initiative founder, Armen Arevian, for TEQ Magazine podcast: radio interview
Founder, Armen Arevian, named one of "Pittsburgh 40 under 40" by Pittsburgh Magazine and PUMP for 2009 for his work fostering collaboration in science. view
Contribute
Scientists: join the community and help create prizes, search for prizes, or help with development - Sign Up Here
Donors: want to have direct impact on the progress of scientific research? Contact us to find out how you can support.
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