The Krasnow Institute has had a long-term and quite intellectually deep relationship with the Santa Fe Institute. In fact, it would be accurate to say that SFI played a key role in the founding of Krasnow since the symposium, “The Mind, The Brain, and Complex Adaptive Systems”, sponsored by Santa Fe and George Mason University in May of 1993 directly led to the current Krasnow Institute scientific program (click on the link above). Currently there are direct links between the two institutes at the board and scientific advisory board levels: we are indeed sister institutes.
Krasnow also has less formal ties to other institutes (of similar scientific scope). In many cases, these links are simply research collaborations, or reified as individual scientists who have spent time at both places.
In the future, we’ll be moving quite significantly to increase our international institutional ties and, most importantly, will be offering opportunities for scholars seeking to use their sabbatical time in extended visits to Krasnow. This fits very much with one of the original ideas for the Institute: to populate it almost exclusively with visiting scholars–an idea that was ultimately rejected, but also one with many good attributes for promoting scientific discovery.
Jim
Discoverers and Discoveries 