# Adam Marblestone **Entity class:** Researcher and institutional-design author **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Canonical source articles:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] · [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] ## Definition **Adam Marblestone** co-authored the September 2020 Focused Research Organization proposal with [[wiki/Sam Rodriques|Sam Rodriques]]. The proposal described independent, startup-like organizations for coordinated scientific and technical projects that are too engineering-intensive for conventional academic incentives and insufficiently monetizable for ordinary companies. ## Relationships - **Co-authored with:** [[wiki/Sam Rodriques|Sam Rodriques]] — the 2020 [[wiki/Focused Research Organization|Focused Research Organization]] proposal. - **Institutional genealogy:** the proposal predates [[wiki/Convergent Research|Convergent Research]] and the FRO form within which [[wiki/E11 Bio|E11 Bio]] operates. - **Boundary:** authorship of the proposal does not establish ownership or control of Convergent, E11, or [[wiki/PRISM (E11 Bio)|PRISM]]. - **Collection route:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. ## Sources - [Federation of American Scientists — Focused Research Organizations proposal](https://fas.org/publication/focused-research-organizations-to-accelerate-science-technology-and-medicine/)