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Bill Janeway

@050343.bsky.social

Venture capitalist emeritus, economist of innovation at Cambridge University

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Bill Janeway@050343.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Ian Harnett in today’s FT; “The AI capex endgame is approaching” : “My perspective on technology bubbles has been shaped by five themes that emerged from William Janeway’s book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy.

Bill Janeway@050343.bsky.social · last yr.

@pkrugman.bsky.social is so right: “The point is that both men start from the presumption that the U.S. government is an entirely corrupt….Musk’s only mistake was in underestimating the depths of Trump’s lack of principles, imagining that he was the kind of corrupt politician who stays bought”

Bill Janeway@050343.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ In 1914, Germany was the global leader in science and at the technological frontier in such key domains as chemical and electrical engineering. It took 31 years - assisted by losing 2 world wars, hyperinflation, Hitler’s expulsion of Jewish scientists - to pass leadership to the US.

Bill Janeway@050343.bsky.social · last yr.

This is what you need to know about the US research ecosystem…and the Trump/Musk effort to destroy it: www.billjaneway.com/crippling-am...

Crippling America's Innovation Economy — Bill Janeway

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Isako Di Tomassi@isakoditomassi.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you mad when you see commenters asking why the gov gives money to universities? Most people simply don't understand how the research ecosystem works. You can help by explaining it to the people in your hometown! A chance for some meaningful #SciComm a la @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social

Bill Janeway@050343.bsky.social · last yr.

www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/trum...

Crippling America’s Innovation Economy | by William H. Janeway - Project Syndicate

William H. Janeway warns that the pillars of US dynamism and competitiveness are being systematically toppled.

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Tobin L. Smith@scipolguy.bsky.social · last yr.

Economists point out that cuts to federally-funded scientific research will leave Americans poorer, less healthy, and less productive, while threatening U.S. competitiveness in fields like AI. Read more in this article from the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · last yr.

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

John Skiles Skinner@skiles.blue · last yr.

Listen: maybe I'm wrong and this is just the worst software deployment of my career, not actually a conspiracy against democracy. Maybe these guys just don't see they are frittering away all product and service design knowledge in the agency. And don't even know that they lack this knowledge.

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · last yr.

In fairness, there are a bunch of highly prominent libertarian Fedsoc people putting their names to this, expressing a general left-right consensus on free speech and universities. It would be nice to see Columbia university leadership pushing back instead of rolling over

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole

We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the

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