Thomas Landrain interview: short-circuiting research - EuroScientist journal

"La Paillasse: fast-tracking innovation with citizens and experts and without intermediaries

Thomas Landrain in the co-founder and president of La Paillasse, an open laboratory based in Paris, France. The main characteristic of his initiative is that it is completely open for anybody to get involved. 'That makes it very interesting because the distance between the [people involved] are much shorter,' Landrain explains. The objective is to remove the intermediaries between any two actors to be 'much faster, much more efficient at delivering scientific projects,' he adds."