About

We cover all disciplines with our distributed research model.  Our job is to provide you with lifecycle research administration services, which is far more than fee-based consulting firms are able to support.  The only limitation is your skill in developing winning proposals as a principal investigator.  

It's a significant hurdle to clear, but for viable projects, we are capable of hosting research contracts and grants in any discipline, including sensitive data projects requiring IRB oversight, PII, health data, Indigenous knowledge, and more.  And our overhead is competitive — unless otherwise specified by the sponsor, our projects incur a 25% indirect rate and 15% MTDC — making IGDORE USA an attractive host for your grant.

The traditional research lab is a physical location, where all the materials and resources are centrally located.  Even when those assets are not in use, the lab is obliged to keep equipment and facilities secured, insured, and ready for use.  IGDORE USA leverages its collaboratory competencies toward distributed research operations.  

This means that we use assets on case-by-case basis, and we factor the cost of use of all those assets into your project budget.  Instead of charging the astronomical overhead fees common in traditional research institutions, we pay for limited use of materials, facilities, equipment, and services as direct cost line items.  Our network of REX partners provide access either as shared resources under MOU agreements, or as commercial vendors.

Sovereign scientists are funded to conduct research outside the traditional institutions of research (i.e., university,  industry, and  government labs).  

"Sovereignty" is a term that has been adopted by the community of researchers who work outside the establishment due to disenfranchisement.  Soverign scholars are often decades ahead of their time, and may struggle throughout their professional lives to advance truly innovative ideas.  Our program serves the sovereign community.

In contrast, the concept of independent research has never been standardized and can refer to anything from a private consulting firm to a high school extra credit project to a corporate lab.  In order to draw a clear distinction between our uniquely innovative research institute and the broadly defined activities that qualify as independent research, we have adopted the sovereignty framework to refer to our community of practice.

Most scholarly research of any kind, whether it is scientific or humanities related, is appropriate for open source science.