Funding R&D in Developing Countries
The Impact of US Cuts
New Things Under the Sun
A living literature review on social science research about innovation.
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Frequently Asked Questions About US Government Funding for R&D
How much? On what? What's the ROI? Etc.
Government Funding for R&D and Productivity Growth
Estimating the returns to public R&D, using data
Do Prediction Technologies Help Novices or Experts More?
It can go either way
Prediction Technologies and Innovation
Looking Under the Street Light
Training Scientists in Low and Middle Income Countries
The evidence is thin, but we think it probably works!
The Decline in Writing About Progress
The rise and fall of our interest in progress?
Incentives to Invent at Universities
More complicated than it seems at first
Twitter and the Spread of Academic Knowledge
Serendipity without physical proximity? Maybe, maybe not.
Prediction or Science Fiction?
A collection of the more far out articles on New Things
When the Robots Take Your Job
Some Intuitions From Recent Models of Automation
Students Get Interested In What Their Mentors Are Interested In
Transmission of innovative taste?
Can We Learn About Innovation From Patent Data?
The definitive New Things Under the Sun post.
Do studies based on patents get different results?
For the sample on New Things Under the Sun, not really
Patents (Weakly) Predict Innovation
Correlations between patents and other innovation proxies
How many inventions are patented?
Less than half, more than zero
Training enhances the value of new technology
One reason technology doesn't diffuse more quickly - you need to know how to use it well
Teaching Innovative Entrepreneurship
Boosting innovation by teaching people to be tech entrepreneurs?
Teachers and the Transmission of Excellence
Disentangling selection and training
When Research Over There Isn't Helpful Here
Limits to the universality of new discoveries
Literature Reviews and Innovation
Let's get meta
Test Index
Testing alternative ways of displaying the index entries
Big Firms Have Different Incentives
A reason large firms conduct R&D at the same rate as small ones, despite (apparently) lower R&D productivity
Geography and What Gets Researched
The salience of local problems
How to Impede Technological Progress
Raise the cost of research, or reduce the rewards of it