Matt Clancy
@mattsclancy.bsky.social
Runs Open Philanthropy’s Innovation Policy program. Creator of newthingsunderthesun.com, a living literature review about innovation. Website: mattsclancy.com.
To celebrate the debut of the Atlas of Innovation, a guide to funding innovation from IFP and the Market Shaping Accelerator, a thread of my favorite Atlas illustrations (by R. Kikuo Johnson)! First: “milestone payments” - get it? (Atlas explainer here: www.abundanceandgrowth.org/p/an-atlas-o...)
@mattsclancy.bsky.social as usual offers useful insights about the fate of social science funding at NSF Social science at the NSF open.substack.com/pub/abundanc...
Social science at the NSF
History rhymes
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It’s a debate between @jdworkin.bsky.social and @stuartbuck.bsky.social on the value of replicating research!
Back and Forth on the Value of Replication
From Stuart:
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Are you a PhD student interested in the economics of innovation? The Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Online short course, hosted by IFP, is back for the third time! ifp.org/economics-of...
Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Online PhD Short Course | Institute for Progress
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Excited to share I'm joining @openphil.bsky.social under @mattsclancy.bsky.social as the housing program officer for the Abundance & Growth Fund! Launching Niskanen's housing team has been a blast, & I'll remain a Senior Fellow with them But I'm thrilled to start supporting housers everywhere!
🔎 Patent citations are everywhere in innovation research. But do they really trace how ideas spill over between inventors—or are we mistaking legal paperwork for knowledge flows? 🧐 New on #ThePatentist: www.thepatentist.com/p/patent-cit... #patents #innovation #spillovers
Patent citations: Tracing spillovers or chasing shadows?
Measuring how ideas move across firms and regions
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Excellent retrospective approach to a timely prospective question.
Matt Clancy@mattsclancy.bsky.social · 10mo agoNew research by Pierre Azoulay, Danielle Li, Bhaven Sampat and me. Earlier this year, the President’s budget proposed a 40% cut to the budget of the NIH. This motivated us to ask: what if the NIH had been 40% smaller?
New research by Pierre Azoulay, Danielle Li, Bhaven Sampat and me. Earlier this year, the President’s budget proposed a 40% cut to the budget of the NIH. This motivated us to ask: what if the NIH had been 40% smaller?
If you're a thinker or do-er in the housing space and you haven't subscribed to @michaelwiebe.bsky.social's substack, you're doing it wrong! It's a living urban econ lit review, inspired by @mattsclancy.bsky.social's New Things Under the Sun. Great stuff! Here's an example ⤵️.
Michael Wiebe@michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 11mo agoNew lit review post: filtering. 1/
Nice article on returns to R&D in MIT Tech Review, ft. our own @mattsclancy.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/17/...
Deadline to apply to these positions is today! Big opportunity to accelerate growth and progress in housing, energy, clinical trials, and more.
Matt Clancy@mattsclancy.bsky.social · last yr.The Abundance and Growth Fund at Open Philanthropy is hiring! We’re looking for 2-4 people to help expand this new $120+ million program to accelerate economic growth and reduce the cost of living through strategic grantmaking and research. (1/4) www.openphilanthropy.org/research/ann...
PODCAST | Remote working and the future of cities 🎙️ @andrewcities.bsky.social is joined by @mattsclancy.bsky.social to discuss hybrid working, productivity, cities and the future of work. Listen to the pod 🎧👇
City Talks: Remote working and the future of cities - Centre for Cities
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Matt Clancy, Senior Programme Officer at Open Philanthropy and the creator of New Things Under the Sun, a
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The Abundance and Growth Fund at Open Philanthropy is hiring! We’re looking for 2-4 people to help expand this new $120+ million program to accelerate economic growth and reduce the cost of living through strategic grantmaking and research. (1/4) www.openphilanthropy.org/research/ann...
Announcing Our New $120M Abundance And Growth Fund | Open Philanthropy
We are excited to announce the launch of our new Abundance and Growth Fund, which will spend at least $120 million over the next three years to accelerate economic growth and boost scientific and tech...
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Enter the 1st pop‑up journal, true living R&D ROI lab for Zvi Griliches: revisiting his seminal question, catalyzing his legacy in real‑time policy, and promising impact no posthumous Econ Nobel (which he more than deserved!) ever could. Arguably the wisest academic publishing initiative in decades.
Matt Clancy@mattsclancy.bsky.social · last yr.What’s the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.
Such a clever idea. You could imagine its application to all sorts of wicked problems…
Matt Clancy@mattsclancy.bsky.social · last yr.What’s the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.
This is a really cool kind of initiative: a pop-up journal on the returns to public R&D: popupjournal.com. Pop-up journals to coordinate research on questions that matter!
The Pop-Up Journal Initiative
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Matt Clancy@mattsclancy.bsky.social · last yr.Finally: we think Pop-Up Journals will be a useful way to help the academic community coordinate on answering big questions of all kinds and communicate those answers to the policy world. This Pop-Up Journal is only the first we plan to support.
Love this - need more innovation in academic publishing
Matt Clancy@mattsclancy.bsky.social · last yr.What’s the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.
Very excited to join with Open Philanthropy on an all-out sprint to answer some of the thorniest practical questions in economics. First question: What return do we get when we invest in R&D?
Matt Clancy@mattsclancy.bsky.social · last yr.What’s the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.
Good luck with this! An interesting innovation in the organization of the study of innovation.
Matt Clancy@mattsclancy.bsky.social · last yr.What’s the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.
interesting idea. we need more innovation in the research publication/curation space.
Matt Clancy@mattsclancy.bsky.social · last yr.What’s the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.
Interesting metascience experiment: a pop-up journal! Read @mattsclancy.bsky.social's thread for details and how to apply.
Matt Clancy@mattsclancy.bsky.social · last yr.What’s the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.
What’s the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.
✴️ REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS! ✴️ @navigation.org is seeking bold projects at the intersection of AI and Open Science. We support innovative applications that make science more transparent, efficient, and trustworthy. Deadline: July 15, 2025. os.nav.fund/ai-for-os/ #openscience #AIforScience
AI for Open Science - Request for Proposals
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I've been told the US Patent and Trademark Office is expected to terminate its PatentsView contract, meaning all the datasets and disambiguation available at patentsview.org will likely go offline March 28. Associated github repository might also go offline.
PatentsView
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Cool blogpost by @mattsclancy.bsky.social on (US) Government R&D spending. tldr: It is a good thing. #science4policy mattsclancy.substack.com/p/frequently...
Frequently Asked Questions About US Government Funding for R&D
How much? On what? What's the ROI? Etc.
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New blog post: Why should we have to pay for projects in foreign countries with our tax dollars? blog.jacobtrefethen.com/generosity/
Generosity
Why should we have to pay for projects in foreign countries with our tax dollars? Well, we don't have to. It is a decision. At the moment the decision costs $15 per month each, $200 per year. The Uni...
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After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵
