Here are some EA Forum things that might be relevant:
The posts tagged Scientific progress or Meta-science
Stefan Torges’ post on Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams
The posts tagged Speeding up development
But as with the posts tagged Differential progress, I think these are more about how valuable this is and why, rather than how to do it
Maybe some posts tagged cultural evolution and/​or economic growth
But that seems less relevant
And here are some non-EA-Forum things that might be relevant, which I learned about from Max Daniel (I think) and which I haven’t read myself:
Fortunato et al. (2018), Science of science
Farmer & Lafond (2016), How predictable is technological progress?
Nagy et al. (2013), Statistical basis for predicting technological progress
Chad Jones (2005), The Shape of Production Functions and the Direction of Technical Change
Ruby, Potential factors in Bell Labs’ intellectual progress, Pt. 1
Clauset et al. (2017), Data-driven predictions in the science of science
(Also, glad to hear you found the differential progress tag and my related collection of sources useful!)
Here are some EA Forum things that might be relevant:
The posts tagged Scientific progress or Meta-science
Stefan Torges’ post on Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams
The posts tagged Speeding up development
But as with the posts tagged Differential progress, I think these are more about how valuable this is and why, rather than how to do it
Maybe some posts tagged cultural evolution and/​or economic growth
But that seems less relevant
And here are some non-EA-Forum things that might be relevant, which I learned about from Max Daniel (I think) and which I haven’t read myself:
Fortunato et al. (2018), Science of science
Farmer & Lafond (2016), How predictable is technological progress?
Nagy et al. (2013), Statistical basis for predicting technological progress
Chad Jones (2005), The Shape of Production Functions and the Direction of Technical Change
Ruby, Potential factors in Bell Labs’ intellectual progress, Pt. 1
Clauset et al. (2017), Data-driven predictions in the science of science
(Also, glad to hear you found the differential progress tag and my related collection of sources useful!)