According to Google's Eric Schmidt, the deal is built on two stages: "First, Google has agreed to create a €60m digital publishing innovation fund to help support transformative digital publishing initiatives for French readers.
This will build cultural support for more transformative initiatives and create organizational muscle memory.
First, Google has agreed to create a €60 million Digital Publishing Innovation Fund to help support transformative digital publishing initiatives for French readers.
His vision for YIGH is to support faculty and trainees in developing transformative initiatives that cross disciplines and have an impact on people's lives across the globe.
Over the last decade, many publicly funded initiatives, including ERC grant programs, have been launched to support transformative or frontier research, which could be a new way of seeing things, a methodological or instrumental advance, the discovery of a new substance such as graphene, or an emerging subfield.
Recent transformative initiatives include a ten-year Atlantic Philanthropies partnership supporting activists and scholars aimed at ending anti-black racism.
The most successful business transformations are those that beget more and more transformative initiatives year after year.
We support transformative agricultural technologies that will make a difference — from Golden Rice to drought-tolerant maize.
Learn about transformative initiatives in each of these three faculty divisions: the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.
Many programs have been created to support transformative research, yet "the challenge is that there is very little insight in what characterizes potentially transformative research," Lal said.
NSF also issued a series of new funding opportunities to support transformative research (see box).
