# Max Planck Society **Domain:** Basic Research / Distributed Scientific Institutions **Doc Type:** Institution Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics]], [[Distributed Intelligence]], [[Research Infrastructure]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition The **Max Planck Society** is a German network of institutes devoted to basic research across the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences and humanities. ## Corpus Context The society is an institutional form of [[Distributed Intelligence]]: autonomous institutes share a durable funding and knowledge architecture while pursuing distinct research programs. It shows how civilization externalizes inquiry into organizations that outlive individual researchers. ## Directory Context This institution is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]. See [[Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Max Planck Society](https://www.mpg.de/en)