📢 Conference announcement! Paolo Surico and I are excited to be organizing this @cepr.org conference on Public Policies for Innovation. If you work in the #Economics of #Innovation and #InnovationPolicy, please submit + spread the word. Non-presenting attendees also invited.

Centre for Economic Policy Research@cepr.org · 11mo ago

#CallForPapers - Conference on Public Policies for Innovation ESRC, London Business School, @fuqua.duke.edu & CEPR invite submissions for a #conference on Public Policies for Innovation at LBS on 19-20 March 2026. cepr.org/events/confe... Organisers: Paolo Surico & @danielpgross.bsky.social #EconSky

Proud to have worked with this crew, especially Justin Walthier and Hana Ryan, who are both legal prodigies. Thanks to @prmalone.bsky.social, Nina Srejovic, and @stanfordlaw.bsky.social for support, and to @patentscholar.bsky.social for making this happen. We hope the court finds the brief helpful.

Lisa L. Ouellette@patentscholar.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks to @prmalone.bsky.social and his team at the @juelsgaardclinic.bsky.social at @stanfordlaw.bsky.social for filing this amicus brief on behalf of myself, @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social, @danielpgross.bsky.social & @sampat.bsky.social in the NIH indirect costs case papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is a thoughtful take worth a full read. Despite all the hot takes I find it hard to have a point of view over the specific faults or appropriate remedies (individual to the author, or systemic) until we know more about what happened.

Tim Bresnahan@timobres.bsky.social · last yr.

#econsky What do we know about “Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation” and about MIT's investigation of this paper, which apparently led to expulsion of its author? And what should we change in response. /1

^ This guy gets it (in my impartial opinion)

James Feigenbaum@jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · last yr.

Just to be safe, I think we should put a waiting period of say 100 years after a technology shock to study it's effects (or at the very least land such a study in a top5)

Fantastic thread on an important paper. Andrew's previous paper ("The Returns to Government R&D: Evidence from U.S. Appropriations Shocks") also worth a read.

Reviewing the history of US indirect cost recovery policy, presenting new data on indirect cost recovery rates, modeling the effects of a 15 percent cap at the NIH, and evaluating tradeoffs across reform options, from Azoulay, Gross, and Sampat https://www.nber.org/papers/w33627

Tariffs get all the attention, but ask economists what they're really worried about and many will point to the Trump administration's cuts to federal support for the sciences, including canceling grants and revoking student visas. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

Trump’s Science Policies Pose Long-Term Risk, Economists Warn (Gift Article)

Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.

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Looks like the cat is out of the bag. Good post by @stuartbuck.bsky.social on indirect cost recovery citing new joint work with @sampat.bsky.social and @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social. Find it here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g8792...

Stuart Buck@stuartbuck.bsky.social · last yr.

As someone who loves spending part of a weekend digging into indirect cost regulations, here's a new piece! goodscience.substack.com/p/federal-in...

@danielpgross.bsky.social & @sampat.bsky.social introduce a comprehensive, open-access #dataset identifying US government-funded patents from 1900-2020. The government's share of patented innovations reached its zenith during WWII - comprising 11% of all US filings. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

The US WW2 medical research and development effort catalyzed postwar science, modernized drug discovery, and fueled the postwar National Institutes of Health — reshaping biomedical innovation for decades, from Daniel P. Gross and Bhaven N. Sampat https://www.nber.org/papers/w33457

I have been studying bureaucracy my entire career. Here are some insights from my research about the ongoing efforts to transform the US federal bureaucracy newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/is-the-u-s-c...

Is the U.S. Civil Service really broken? What the research says about bureaucratic efficiency and reform - Haas News | Berkeley Haas

The Trump administration is pursuing sweeping changes to the federal workforce, aiming to increase political control over civil servants and reduce the size of the bureaucracy. The new Department of G...

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A good summary of what's gone on with NSF funding, and some interesting new tidbits. I'm really pleased they chose to end with @wytham88.bsky.social and a link to our paper: “Grants don’t just generate knowledge or output now, they’ve become a way that we support the training of future scientists.”

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Full thread coming soon. If you want a break from current events, come see the talk at the Virtual Seminar on Innovation and Economic Growth this Wednesday 12pm ET! sites.google.com/view/v-s-inn... Kudos to Alex and Murat for creating a new seminar 💪

🔊🔊New WP: "The Therapeutic Consequences of the War: World War II and the 20th-Century Expansion of Biomedicine" How WW2 transformed biomed. science, triggered a golden age of drug discovery, and fueled the postwar NIH. Insights for biomed R&D today. 💉 Link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fuhc8...

It's such a weird thing to hear the news and think "that's bad, but also I have a paper about (an aspect) of that" Funding delays are really not great for people who work in science. Funding delays of > 30 days lead to: - 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force - 20% decrease in wages

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2y ago

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring www.science.org/content/arti...

Concern and policy for "left behind places" isn't going anywhere. Anthony Pipa and I comment on Joe Biden's last ec policy order @aaronsojourner.org @hboushey.bsky.social @emmbadger.bsky.social @jfallows.bsky.social @danielpgross.bsky.social @byheatherlong.bsky.social @neilirwin.bsky.social

In one of his final actions, Biden urges continued help for left-behind places

President Biden urges continued support for struggling "left-behind" communities through an executive order focused on economic recovery and regional development. This order extends a bipartisan agend...

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NBER Innovation Boot Camp is back this summer for a 4th run (thanks open_phil!)! Lectures by Heidi Williams, Pierre Azoulay, Ina Ganguli, Ben Jones, Chad Jones, Kyle Myers, and me, a great policy panel and keynotes, plus attendance at Summer Institute innovation session. www.nber.org/calls-papers...

Looking for things to do in late May? Submit your work on digitization, innovation, and IP to the www.munich-summer-institute.org by Feb 15. Join us for great food, city walks, urban surfing (if you like), and two exciting keynote speakers (@proffionasm.bsky.social and @michelag.bsky.social)

#QJE Feb 2025, #9, “The Long-Run Impacts of Public Industrial Investment on Local Development and Economic Mobility: Evidence from World War II,” by Garin (@andygarin.bsky.social) and Rothbaum: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

The Long-Run Impacts of Public Industrial Investment on Local Development and Economic Mobility: Evidence from World War II*

Abstract. This article studies the long-run effects of government-led construction of manufacturing plants on the regions where they were built and on indi

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A golden age not only for antibiotics but also other drugs, and biomedicine broadly -- new paper on the links of this prolific era to the WW2 research effort (& the limits to those links) coming shortly. Lots to think about in the way of possible parallels in the aftermath of Covid and OWS.

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 2y ago

Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time? So, I visualized it myself!

Had a great chat with Jordi @visiblehandpod.bsky.social a couple weeks ago on our work on telephone industry automation - though one thing you won't get to experience thru the podcast format is my office old school rotary dial telephone!

The Visible Hand Podcast@visiblehandpod.bsky.social · 2y ago

Episode 86: Dan Gross on Labour Market Responses to Automation. #EconSky. Listen here at: www.thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/epi...

Great work @inaganguli.bsky.social. Follow them all!

Ina Ganguli@inaganguli.bsky.social · 2y ago

I started! go.bsky.app/HETnNr5 Not many people on here yet it seems..

New: Video recordings and slide decks from our CREED event last month, “From Rasters to Rows: New Methods and Applications in Automated Data Extraction” www.philadelphiafed.org/calendar-of-...

From Rasters to Rows: New Methods and Applications in Automated Data Extraction

The conference brought together leading researchers developing new methods of automated data extraction and applying them to frontier social-science research.

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Seeing NBER try to get an invite be like 📈📉