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1. University procurement systems and methodologies(the PO / cost object etc).

2. The difficulty in finding people with specific technical expertise in a university setting. People spend enormous amounts of time troubleshooting problems which could be easily solved by just talking to the right person for a brief amount of time. Yet, typically people have no idea what is going on outside of their group / lab and lack a mechanism by which to find people locally or remotely with the domain-specific expertise they are looking for.

3. The lack of a wikipedia-esque resource for bio or a resource to onboard new investigators and students into a new field. Textbooks are paywalled, journal articles typically assume a base level of knowledge of the field, and reviews can be very hit or miss. Someone should create a way for leaders in each sub-domain of science to select the top reviews for new entrants into their respective field, and establish a curated collection of such reviews. Going off of citation count or potentially impact factor would be a good start.