“When one looks at innovation in nature and in culture, environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative… good ideas want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing borders”²

Rapid Science Open is a process that enables transdisciplinary and mult-institutional research teams to share, discuss, and review their early findings and insights. It involves expert facilitation and a continually updated narrative (prepared by the facilitator) describing the team’s incremental and null results, contextualized in accordance with the field’s latest published evidence.