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Independent research papers examining how rights, incentives, and system architecture shape complex sectors under clearer, interoperable models. These whitepapers form the foundation of the broader canon and inform subsequent briefs and protocol work, including the Universal Sports Graph (USG).

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The Sports Spin-Off

A Long-Term Hedging Strategy for Higher Ed Institutions Facing Demographic Decline

Published: 04/17/2025

Updated: 01/04/2026

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Scott Jellen is an independent researcher working at the intersection of protocol design, rights modeling, and interoperability across digital and public systems. His work includes standards-oriented specifications, reference models, and published whitepapers that examine how incentives, governance, and infrastructure can be represented clearly and designed to scale. He is the founder of the Jellen Protocol Lab, which serves as the emerging home for this research. Flagship work includes the Universal Sports Graph (USG), a protocol-based framework spanning RFC-style specifications and a versioned reference registry.

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