I love science & tech and how these improve lives. As a software engineer/entrepreneur, in the last years I thought of starting/contributing to some projects which scientists would find useful. Now I'm ready to work full time on this.
Ideas revolve around
* indexing all open research with free unlimited access, similar to arxiv-sanity.com but better; Other projects exist though: Google Scholar; semanticscholar.org, academic.microsoft.com, https://www.chanzuckerberg.com/science/projects-meta
* generative design
* bioengineering (not sure exactly what, eg microbiota simulator)
* materials simulator (eg how can we get a material having a given set of properties)
I don't need immediate financial returns, but I do need the work to be used & have an impact in real life projects.
What ideas do you have on how one can accelerate scientific research?
There’s lot of questions. How to organize it? How to encourage participation? How to maximize usefulness while at the same time minimizing volunteer effort? How to encourage discussion (suggesting changes for a better exp design) rather than manipulation (stealing the seed of a bad experiment to publish at your better funded lab)?
I don’t know how to do it, but I think if done right people would really like it.