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You should read up on the Max Planck institutes in Germany, and on the Flatiron Institute in New York.

As others have said your problem will be attracting talent. You're best off organising free conferences, in collaboration with a MP, to start with.

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Flatiron itself has had struggles moving people out into academia (not counting joint positions it already has) so citing it might be the exception proving the rule

Pardon my ignorance, but what does MP mean in this context?

Max Planck - sorry I didn't define that (https://www.mpg.de/institutes).

Thanks :)

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