Build a Tool That Travels
Found a research institution and see whether it can produce a reliable scientific instrument or platform tool that meets a real user need and travels beyond its founding team.
Research institutions are systems. Try changing one.
Short simulations of how institutions are built and sustained. Play one alone to think something through, or run one with a group to argue it out.
The simulations
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Trade-offs, Events, and Trajectories: Research Institution Simulator
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New mission cards will be available soon. Each with distinct mechanics, objectives, and paths to success.
About the Lab.
Osteri Labs explores how funding, governance, people, and research strategy interact over time. The models simplify reality in the hopes of making institutional trade-offs visible enough to discuss.