source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00018-5 These are organisations that work on projects capable of producing public goods, such as data sets or tools, to make research faster and easier. The authors claim that FROs should handle such projects as they inevitably die or don't launch because academic laboratories, start-up firms and government facilities cannot support them for different reasons. ## FRO DO's - Should have time-bound milestones unrelated to academic publishing, and strong project management to help achieve them. ## FRO DONT's - Training students or aiming to become a permanent institution must not be part of the mission. # related notes - [[16 Metascience entrepreneurs work on new social processes of science]] - [[0c1 DSIT RVC program application]]