# Network Science Foundation

IRCNow's policy is always to create new economic opportunities

for our users. In the past, this has meant helping users learn new skills

through virtual labs. Increasingly, it will now also include coding courses.

These economic opportunities are essential to helping our users find

work, to keep our network a thriving LAN of opportunity and freedom.

Today, we spend most of our time cloning non-free software that already

exists, to make them free and open. Basic science funding, however, is

being cut at every public institution in the world. More and more,

scientific knowledge is becoming closed and non-free private property.

At some point, however, we will no longer be able to rely on ideas

invented by other institutions. To create new job opportunities for our

users, we must pursue and explore new frontiers of science. This new

frontier must be made available and open for all our users to develop.

New jobs, products, and services all depend upon a flow of new scientific

knowledge. This new knowledge can be obtained only through basic research.

So we begin to work on setting up a research institution at IRCNow,

with the hopes that will expand the frontier of knowledge.

Inspired by [Science, The Endless Frontier by Vannevar Bush](/https://www.nsf.gov/about/history/vbush1945.htm)