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Mokena's Front Porch PodcastNick Clancy - Candidate For Mokena Village Trustee - 2 Year TermSend us a textNick Clancy is a Mokena business owner, having started Clancy Bros. coffee in Mokena. This is Nick's first time running for elected office. Get to know Nick Clancy and be sure to vote on April 1st! Early voting starts March 17th! Support the showBe sure to check out our website @ www.MokenasFrontPorch.comFollow Us On Facebook At Mokena's Front PorchCheck Out Our YouTube Channel For Some Great VideosFind Matt's Blog here: Matt's Old Mokena Photo & Artwork Credit: Jennifer Medema & L...
2025-03-0546 min
Directionally Correct, A People Analytics Podcast#108 - Dr. Matt Clancy - The Economics of Innovation, AI, and CollaborationDirectionally Correct podcast has a NEW sponsor One Model! Check them out here: https://www.onemodel.co/directionallycorrect
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In this episode of Directionally Correct, host Cole & Scott dives into the intricacies of innovation and the ethical use of AI with guest Matt Clancy, a R...
2024-12-151h 02
New Things Under the SunTraining Scientists in Low and Middle Income CountriesNew Things Under the Sun is once again putting together a list of dissertation papers related to innovation. If you want your paper to be included, email the title, an abstract, and a link to the paper, to matt@newthingsunderthesun.com by the end of November.In this post, coauthored with Caroline Fry, we look at the evidence on the effects of training programs for scientists in lower and middle income countries (LMICs). This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article Training scientists in low and middle income countries...
2024-11-2519 minNew Things Under the SunTwitter and the Spread of Academic KnowledgeA classic topic in the study of innovation is the link between physical proximity and the exchange of ideas. But I’ve long been interested in a relatively new kind of serendipity engine, which isn’t constrained by physical proximity: Twitter. Lots of academics use twitter to talk about new discoveries and research. Today I want to look at whether twitter serves as a novel kind of knowledge diffusion platform.This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article Twitter and the Spread of Academic Knowledge, originally published on New Things Under the...
2024-06-2022 min
80k After HoursHighlights: #188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is goodThis is a selection of highlights from episode #188 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:Matt Clancy on whether science is goodAnd if you're finding these highlights episodes valuable, please let us know by emailing podcast@80000hours.org.Chapters:Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)How could scientific progress be net negative? (00:00:15)Non-philosophical reasons to discount the far-future (00:03:42)How technology generates huge benefits in our day-to-day lives (00:07:54)Can scie...
2024-06-0626 minNew Things Under the SunWhen the Robots Take Your JobNote:Economists typically think that labor and capital are complementary - more of the one makes the other more productive. But there’s a flourishing literature that looks at the consequences of capital that replaces, rather than augments, human workers. In this post, I want to talk about a very simple equation that is inspired by the ideas in these papers, and which I think is a useful thinking tool.This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article When the Robots Take Your Job, originally published on Ne...
2024-06-0339 min
The Macroscience PodcastMacroscience Podcast: Matt ClancyThis week on the Macroscience podcast we interview Matt Clancy, proprietor of the excellent living literature review New Things Under The Sun and a Research Fellow at Open Philanthropy. We discuss the attributes of systems that are able to adapt and improve with time, and how those attributes shape different facets of research productivity. Along the way, we discuss the philanthropic imitation game, the bright sides of peer review, cream skimming phenomena, synthetic market forces, and the demand for HwangCo brand microscopes. Enjoy! This is a public episode. If you...
2024-05-3141 min
The Entrepreneur's EthicSpreading the Entrepreneurship Bug | Matt Clancy | Ep. 24This week’s podcast is an interview with Dr. Matt Clancy, Economist of Innovation, Research Fellow at Open Philanthropy, and Creator of New Things Under the Sun, a living literature review on research about innovation.
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2024-05-251h 04
80,000 Hours Podcast#188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is good"Suppose we make these grants, we do some of those experiments I talk about. We discover, for example — I’m just making this up — but we give people superforecasting tests when they’re doing peer review, and we find that you can identify people who are super good at picking science. And then we have this much better targeted science, and we’re making progress at a 10% faster rate than we normally would have. Over time, that aggregates up, and maybe after 10 years, we’re a year ahead of where we would have been if we hadn’t done this kind of s...
2024-05-232h 40New Things Under the SunCan We Learn About Innovation From Patent Data?Welcome to patents week! I set out to write a post about using patents to measure innovation, but it turned into four. I'm releasing podcasts of each episode, one per day, but if you're too excited to wait, you can read all four here, on New Things Under the Sun.How many inventions are patented? Less than half, more than zeroPatents (weakly) predict innovation: Correlations between patents and other proxies for innovationDo studies based on patents get different results? For the sample on New Things Under the Sun, not reallyCan we learn about innovation from patent data? The...
2024-04-0426 minNew Things Under the SunDo studies based on patents get different results?Welcome to patents week! I set out to write a post about using patents to measure innovation, but it turned into four. I'm releasing podcasts of each episode, one per day, but if you're too excited to wait, you can read all four here, on New Things Under the Sun.How many inventions are patented? Less than half, more than zeroPatents (weakly) predict innovation: Correlations between patents and other proxies for innovationDo studies based on patents get different results? For the sample on New Things Under the Sun, not reallyCan we learn about innovation from patent data? The...
2024-04-0316 minNew Things Under the SunPatents (weakly) predict innovationWelcome to patents week! I set out to write a post about using patents to measure innovation, but it turned into four. I'm releasing podcasts of each episode, one per day, but if you're too excited to wait, you can read all four here, on New Things Under the Sun.How many inventions are patented? Less than half, more than zeroPatents (weakly) predict innovation: Correlations between patents and other proxies for innovationDo studies based on patents get different results? For the sample on New Things Under the Sun, not reallyCan we learn about innovation from patent data? The...
2024-04-0216 minNew Things Under the SunHow many inventions are patented?Welcome to patents week! I set out to write a post about using patents to measure innovation, but it turned into four. I'm releasing podcasts of each episode, one per day, but if you're too excited to wait, you can read all four here, on New Things Under the Sun.How many inventions are patented? Less than half, more than zeroPatents (weakly) predict innovation: Correlations between patents and other proxies for innovationDo studies based on patents get different results? For the sample on New Things Under the Sun, not reallyCan we learn about innovation from patent data? The...
2024-04-0124 minNew Things Under the SunTraining enhances the value of new technologyTechnology has advanced by leaps and bounds in the past few centuries, but much of that progress is still limited to the richest countries. Why don't new technologies spread quickly throughout the world, benefiting billions of people? In this podcast, we’ll focus on one particular answer: new technologies improve productivity, but they improve productivity more when paired with knowledge on how to use them. If this is true, new technologies will be less beneficial to recipients who don’t have the knowledge to use them effectively - and thus, they may not spread as much as we expected. ...
2024-03-2116 minNew Things Under the SunTeaching Innovative EntrepreneurshipCorrection: In this podcast, I misspoke towards the end and referred to Eesley and Lee (2020) as Eesley and Wang (a 2017 paper I wrote about earlier here). Apologies to the authors.A lot of particularly interesting innovation happens at startups. Suppose we want more of this. One way we could try to get more is by giving entrepreneurship training to people who are likely to found innovative startups. Does that work? This post takes a look at some meta-analyses on the effects of entrepreneurship education, then zeroes in on a few studies focusing on entrepreneurship training for science...
2024-02-1924 min
Is Paul Dano OK?Bonus 23: Is Clancy Brown OK? (interview)Guys... they did it. Matt and Daryl were lucky enough to spend a Friday night interviewing Clancy Brown! There's a wealth of deep cut questions here, and Clancy was gracious enough to wander off the beaten track, somewhere to the left of memory lane. This interview is something special so you're in for a treat. Don't forget to VOTE on which actor the podcast covers for Season 9. https://forms.gle/VtjXysgK4LhotB8D7 You can find all season artwork designs (from the ridiculously talented Stephen Trumble) on our Teepublic store. We also have our intro t...
2024-01-051h 26New Things Under the SunTeacher Influence and InnovationHere’s a striking fact: through 2022, one in two Nobel prize winners in physics, chemistry, and medicine also had a Nobel prize winner as their academic advisor.undefinedWhat accounts for this extraordinary transmission rate of scientific excellence? In this podcast I’ll focus one potential explanation: what do we know about how innovative teachers influence their students, and their students’ subsequent innovative career? I’ll focus on two strands of literatures: roughly speaking, how teachers influence what their students are interested in and the impact of their work. This podcast is an audio read through...
2023-12-1533 minNew Things Under the SunWhen Research Over There Isn't Helpful HereMuch of the world’s population lives in countries in which little research happens. Is this a problem? According to classical economic models of the “ideas production function,” ideas are universal; ideas developed in one place are applicable everywhere. This is probably true enough for some contexts; but not all. In this post we’ll look at four domains - agriculture, health, the behavioral sciences, and program evaluation research - where new discoveries do not seem to have universal application across all geographies.This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) arti...
2023-11-1714 min
The Mental Mettle PodcastEpisode 22: Clancy Hall of Hendersonville TN basketball knows his metric of success, as a coach, so should you.In the 90s, Clancy Hall left Texas for basketball in Middle Tennessee. He played at Lipscomb, met a girl, decided to stick around, and now he's still in Middle Tennessee for basketball. Along the way he has learned a lot, changed the way he coaches, and now has a solid metric of success he lives by. Schedule a free coaching session with Coach Thomannhttps://calendly.com/coachthomann/coachingdemoMental Mettle Coaching specializes in providing comprehensive mental performance coaching services to athletes and teams. In addition, The Mental Mettle Academy offers online classes designed for...
2023-10-301h 10
Anecdotes for Success.Major General Scott Clancy - Developing Coaching LeadersRetired Canadian Armed Forces General Scott Clancy discusses how to simplify leadership strategy to bridge the people gap between your team, business and/or organization. He shares his tools and techniques from his time in the military and as a college basketball coach. Check out his website at Scott Clancy.
2023-10-011h 02Is Paul Dano OK?Bonus 20: Clancy's Fancy Voice Work in Video GamesJoining Matt and Daryl to discuss Clancy Brown's stellar voice and acting work in video games is returning guest Lucy Buglass. You can find her articles over at What to Watch, here. You can find all season artwork designs (from the ridiculously talented Stephen Trumble) on our Teepublic store. We also have our intro themes and interludes over on Bandcamp. As with Greers, the opening theme to Won't You Take Me To... Clancy Brown was performed and produced by Mike Hall and Daryl Bär. Please drop us a Five Star Review us at Apple P...
2023-09-041h 08New Things Under the SunBig Firms Have Different IncentivesThis week, Arnaud Dyèvre (@ArnaudDyevre) and I follow up on a previous podcast, where we documented a puzzle: larger firms conduct R&D at the same rate as smaller firms, despite getting fewer (and more incremental) innovations per R&D dollar. Why wouldn’t firms decelerate their research spending as the return on R&D apparently declines? In this follow-up podcast, we look at one explanation: firms of different sizes face different incentives when it comes to innovation.This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article "Big firms have different inc...
2023-08-2418 minIs Paul Dano OK?Bonus 19: Clancy's Fancy Voice Work in AnimationMatt and Daryl are joined by returning guest (and the show's resident artist) Stephen Trumble to discuss Clancy Brown's voice work in animated film and television. While this episode is primarily covering Clancy's work in the DC Animate Universe, there's a host of other voicework discussed, so check it out! Please check out Stephen's brilliant animated Batman fan film, Batman: Broken Promise (2022). You can find all season artwork designs (from the ridiculously talented Stephen Trumble) on our Teepublic store. We also have our intro themes and interludes over on Bandcamp. As with Greers, the opening t...
2023-08-141h 42New Things Under the SunGeography and What Gets ResearchedHow do academic researchers decide what to work on? Part of it comes down to what you judge to be important and valuable; and that can come from exposure to problems in your local community. This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article "Geography and What Gets Researched", originally published on New Things Under the Sun.
2023-08-0817 minNew Things Under the SunHow to Impede Technological ProgressMost of the time, we think of innovation policy as a problem of how to accelerate desirable forms of technological progress. But there are other times when we may wish to actively slow technological progress. The AI pause letter is a recent example, but less controversial examples abound. A lot of energy policy acts as a brake on the rate of technological advance in conventional fossil fuel innovation. Geopolitical rivals often seek to impede the advance of rivals’ military technology.Today I want to look at policy levers that actively slow technological advance, sometimes (but not always) as...
2023-07-1336 minNew Things Under the SunThe Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth with Tamay BesirogluThis is not the usual podcast on New Things Under the Sun. For the third issue of Asterisk Magazine, Tamay Besiroglu and I were asked to write an article on how likely it is that artificial intelligence will lead to not just faster economic growth, but explosive economic growth. (Tamay will introduce himself in a minute here). Since we wrote that article as a literal dialogue, we thought it would be fun to also record ourselves performing the parts we wrote for ourselves and that is what we bring to you on this very special...
2023-06-251h 38Is Paul Dano OK?Bonus 18: Won't You Take Me To... Clancy Brown? primerFor season 7, Is Paul Dano OK? presents; Won't You Take Me To... Clancy Brown? Join Matt and Daryl as they delve into curated cuts of the filmography of one Clarence John Brown III. This episode serves as a primer before they hit off with s07e01 - Highlander in a couple weeks. PLEASE NOTE: The opening theme is in its final draft stage and may differ from the final version. MERCH ALERT! You can find all season artwork designs (from the ridiculously talented Stephen Trumble) on our Teepublic store. Please drop...
2023-06-0546 minNew Things Under the SunThe Size of Firms and the Nature of InnovationWe’ve got something new this week! This is post, which is on how the size of firms is related to the kind of innovation they do, is the first ever collaboration published on New Things Under the Sun. My coauthor is Arnaud Dyèvre (@ArnaudDyevre), a PhD student at the London School of Economics working on growth and the economic returns to publicly funded R&D. Going into this post, Arnaud knew this literature better than me and drew up an initial reading plan. We iterated on that for awhile, jointly discovering important papers, and eventually settled on a s...
2023-06-0217 minNew Things Under the SunWhen Technology Goes BadInnovation has, historically, been pretty good for humanity. But technology is just a tool, and tools can be used for good or evil purposes. So far, technology has skewed towards “good” rather than evil but there are some reasons to worry things may differ in the future. What does science and technology policy look like in a world where we can no longer assume that more innovation generally leads to more human flourishing? It’s hard to say too much about such an abstract question, but a number of economic growth models have grappled with this idea.
2023-05-1629 minNew Things Under the SunCan taste beat peer review?Scientific peer review is widely used as a way to distribute scarce resources in academic science, whether those are scarce research dollars or scarce journal pages. At the same time, peer review has several potential short-comings. One alternative is to empower individuals to make decisions about how to allocate scientific resources. Indeed, we do this with journal editors and grant makers, though generally in consultation with peer review. Under what conditions might we expect individuals empowered to exercise independent judgement to outperform peer review?This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version...
2023-04-2423 minNew Things Under the SunWhat does peer review know?People rag on peer review a lot (including, occasionally, New Things Under the Sun). Yet it remains one of the most common ways to allocate scientific resources, whether those be R&D dollars or slots in journals. Is this all a mistake? Or does peer review help in its purported goal to identify the science most likely to have an impact and hence, perhaps most deserving of some of those limited scientific resources?A simple way to check is to compare peer review scores to other metrics of subsequent scientific impact; does peer review predict eventual impact?
2023-04-1914 min
What's New Under the SunBiases Against Risky ResearchA frequent worry is that our scientific institutions are risk-averse and shy away from funding transformative research projects that are high risk, in favor of relatively safe and incremental science. Why might that be?Let’s start with the assumption that high-risk, high-reward research proposals are polarizing: some people love them, some hate them. If this is true, and if our scientific institutions pay closer attention to bad reviews than good reviews, then that could be a driver of risk aversion. In this podcast, I look at three channels through which negative assessments may have outsized weight in...
2023-03-3120 minNew Things Under the SunBiases Against Risky ResearchA frequent worry is that our scientific institutions are risk-averse and shy away from funding transformative research projects that are high risk, in favor of relatively safe and incremental science. Why might that be?Let’s start with the assumption that high-risk, high-reward research proposals are polarizing: some people love them, some hate them. If this is true, and if our scientific institutions pay closer attention to bad reviews than good reviews, then that could be a driver of risk aversion. In this podcast, I look at three channels through which negative assessments may have outsized weight in...
2023-03-3020 min
LuminaryMatt Clancy on innovation, policy, and Progress Studies
Matt Clancy is a research fellow at Open Philanthropy and a senior fellow at The Institute for Progress, a think tank for accelerating scientific, technological, and industrial progress. He maintains New Things Under the Sun, a living literature review about innovation.
Our conversation with Matt gravitates around the state of knowledge of technological innovation. We talk about inputs to innovation, models of innovation, the discipline of Progress Studies, and ways to measure technological progress. We also cover the relationship between policy and innovation.
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2023-03-131h 03
The Triathlon Age Group JourneyEpisode 17 - Guest: Matt ClancySend us a textThere are so many triathlon dimensions to Matt Clancy... from age group, to pro, back to age group, to bike fitting, and to triathlon coach. Matt shares his meandering journey through triathlon with us in an inspiring way! You can reach Matt here:E3 Endurance USAT Level III Certified CoachAsst. Coach Greensboro College Women's TriathlonProfessional Bike Fitter(336) 543-8771coachmatt@E3endure.comwww.E3endure.comMusic from #Uppbeat:https://uppbeat.io/t/paul-yudin/breakthrough
2023-03-011h 02New Things Under the SunInnovators Who ImmigrateTalent is spread equally over the planet, but opportunity is not. Today I want to look at some papers that try to quantify the costs to science and innovation from barriers to immigration. Specifically, let’s look at a set of papers on what happens to individuals with the potential to innovate when they immigrate versus when they do not. (See my post Importing Knowledge for some discussion on the impact of immigration on native scientists and inventors)This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article Innovators Who Immigrate, originally published on...
2023-02-0123 minNew Things Under the SunAge and the Nature of InnovationAre there some kinds of discoveries that are easier to make when young, and some that are easier to make when older?This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article Age and the Nature of Innovation, originally published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles Mentioned:Yu, Huifeng, Gerald Marschke, Matthew B. Ross, Joseph Staudt and Bruce Weinberg. 2022. Publish or Perish: Selective Attrition as a Unifying Explanation for Patterns in Innovation over the Career. Journal of Human Resources 1219-10630R1. https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.59.2.1219-10630R1...
2023-01-0426 minNew Things Under the SunAge and the Impact of InnovationsScientists are getting older. Is this a problem? What’s the relationship between age and innovation?This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article Age and the Impact of Innovations, originally published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles MentionedCui, Haochuan, Lingfei Wu, and James A. Evans. 2022. Aging Scientists and Slowed Advance. arXiv 2202.04044. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2202.04044Jones, Benjamin, E.J. Reedy, and Bruce A. Weinberg. 2014. Age and Scientific Genius. NBER Working Paper 19866. https://doi.org/10.3386/w19866Yu, Huifeng, Gerald Marschke, Matthew B. Ro...
2023-01-0414 minNew Things Under the SunAre technologies inevitable?Suppose in some parallel universe history proceeded down a quite different path from our own, shortly after Homo sapiens evolved. If we fast forward to 2022 of that universe, how different would the technological stratum of that parallel universe be from our own? Would they have invented the wheel? Steam engines? Railroads? Cars? Computers? Internet? Social media? Or would their technologies rely on principles entirely alien to us? In other words, once humans find themselves in a place where technological improvement is the rule (hardly a given!), is the form of the technology they create inevitable? Or is it the...
2022-10-311h 10
The Anxious LadThe Anxious Lad & Liam ClancyIn Episode 8 I speak to Liam Clancy about his journey with Mental Health following the death of his brother Shane, who tragically took his own life after he took the Life of Sebastian Creane in his home in Bray Co. Wicklow Ireland.
TRIGGER WARNING! this episode contains a conversation about suicide and murder.
2022-10-201h 28New Things Under the SunRemote BreakthroughsRemote work seems to be well suited for some kinds of knowledge work, but it’s less clear that it’s well suited for the kind of collaborative creativity that results in breakthrough innovations. A series of new papers suggests breakthrough innovation by distributed teams has traditionally been quite difficult, but also that things have changed, possibly dramatically, as remote collaboration technology has improved.This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial draft of the) post Remote Breakthroughs, originally published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles MentionedVan der Wouden, Frank. 2020. A hi...
2022-10-1826 minNew Things Under the SunWhat if we could automate invention?These are weird times. On the one hand, scientific and technological progress seem to be getting harder. Add to that slowing population growth, and it’s possible economic growth over the next century or two might slow to a halt. On the other hand, one area where we seem to be observing rapid technological progress is in artificial intelligence. If that goes far enough, it’s easy to imagine machines being able to do all the things human inventors and scientists do, possibly better than us. That would seem to pull in the opposite direction, leading to accelerating and poss...
2022-09-0630 minNew Things Under the SunInnovation at the OfficeFor decades, the office was the default way to organize workers, but that default is being re-examined. Many workers (including me) prefer working remotely, and seem to be at least as productive working remotely as they are in the office. Remote capable organizations can hire from a bigger pool of workers than is available locally. All in all, remote work seems to have been underrated, relative to just a few years ago.But there are tradeoffs. I’ve written before that physical proximity seems to be important for building new relationships, even though those relationships seem to re...
2022-08-1727 minNew Things Under the SunDo Academic Citations Measure the Impact of New Ideas?A huge quantity of academic research that seeks to understand how science works relies on citation counts to measure the value of knowledge created by scientists. This measure of scientific impact is so deeply embedded in the literature that it's absolutely crucial to know if it’s reliable. So today I want to look at a few recent articles that look into this foundational question: are citation counts a good measure of the value of scientific contributions?This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial draft of the) post Do Academic Citations Measure the Impact of...
2022-07-0532 minNew Things Under the SunHow common is independent discovery?An old divide in the study of innovation is whether ideas come primarily from individual/group creativity, or whether they are “in the air”, so that anyone with the right set of background knowledge will be able to see them. In this episode, I look at how much redundancy there is in innovation: if the discoverer of some idea had failed to find it, would someone else have figured it out later?This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial draft of the) post How common is independent discovery?, originally published on New Things Under the...
2022-06-2234 min
What's New Under the SunAudio: How common is independent discovery?This is an audio read-through of the initial version of How Common is Independent Discovery?Like the rest of New Things Under the Sun, the underlying article upon which this audio recording is based will be updated as the state of the academic literature evolves; you can read the latest version here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mattsclancy.substack.com
2022-06-2200 min
It is Discernable®Professor Robert Clancy: Covid-19 Narratives, Vaccine Adverse Events, Evidence Based Medicine, the WHO, and CartographyEmeritus Professor Robert Clancy AM, MBBS(Hons), BSc(Med), PhD, DSc, FRACP, FRCPA, FRS(N) is a practising clinical immunologist with an international reputation for research in autoimmune disease, immunisation and mucosal inflammatory disease. He was Foundation Professor of Pathology at the University of Newcastle, where he established the Newcastle Mucosal Immunology Group, identifying mechanisms of airways protection and the pathogenesis of mucosal disease, and discovered new methods of disease control. He was awarded the first and only Doctor of Science by The University of Newcastle.
Professor Clancy developed the vaccine Broncostat at the...
2022-06-041h 07New Things Under the SunScience is getting harderA basket of indicators all seem to document a similar trend. Even as the number of scientists and publications rises substantially, we do not appear to be seeing a concomitant rise in new discoveries that supplant older ones. Science is getting harder.This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial draft of the) post Science is getting harder, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Bloom, Nicholas, Charles I. Jones, John Van Reenen, and Michael Webb. 2020. Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? American Economics Review 110(4): 1104-1144. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20180338
2022-06-0128 min
What's New Under the SunAudio: Science is getting harderThis is an audio read-through of the initial version of Science is getting harder. Like the rest of New Things Under the Sun, the underlying article upon which this audio recording is based will be updated as the state of the academic literature evolves; you can read the latest version here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mattsclancy.substack.com
2022-06-0127 min
What's New Under the SunAudio: When Extreme Necessity is the Mother of InventionThis is an audio read-through of the initial version of When Extreme Necessity is the Mother of Invention. To read the initial newsletter text version of this piece, click here.Like the rest of New Things Under the Sun, this underlying article upon which this audio recording is based will be updated as the state of the academic literature evolves; you can read the latest version here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mattsclancy.substack.com
2022-04-1511 minNew Things Under the SunWhen Extreme Necessity is the Mother of InventionWe all know the proverb “Necessity is the mother of invention.” This proverb is overly simplistic, but it gets at something true. One place you can see this really clearly is in global crises, which vividly illustrate the linkage between need and innovation, without the need for any fancy statistical techniques.Let’s look at three examples.This is an audio read through of the (initial version of) When Extreme Necessity is the Mother of Invention, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles Mentioned:Agarwal, Richer, and Patrick Gaule. 2022. What Drives Innova...
2022-04-1512 min
What's New Under the SunAudio: Steering Science with PrizesThis is an audio read-through of the initial version of Steering Science with Prizes. To read the initial newsletter text version of this piece, click here.Like the rest of New Things Under the Sun, this underlying article upon which this audio recording is based will be updated as the state of the academic literature evolves; you can read the latest version here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mattsclancy.substack.com
2022-03-2528 min
New Things Under the SunSteering Science with PrizesNew scientific research topics can sometimes face a chicken-and-egg problem. Professional success requires a critical mass of scholars to be active in a field, so that they can serve as open-minded peer reviewers and can validate (or at least cite!) new discoveries. Without that critical mass,undefined working on a new topic topic might be professionally risky. But if everyone thinks this way, then how do new research topics emerge; how do groups of people pick which topic to focus on?One way is via coordinating mechanisms; a small number of universally recognized markers of promising research...
2022-03-2428 min
What's New Under the SunAudio: Progress in Programming as EvolutionThis is an audio read-through of the initial version of Progress in Programming as Evolution. To read the initial newsletter text version of this piece, click here.Like the rest of New Things Under the Sun, this underlying article upon which this audio recording is based will be updated as the state of the academic literature evolves; you can read the latest version here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mattsclancy.substack.com
2022-03-1016 minNew Things Under the SunProgress in Programming as EvolutionEvolution via natural selection is a really good explanation for how we gradually got successively more complex biological organisms. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there have long been efforts to apply the same general mechanism to the development of ever more complex technologies. One domain where this has been studied a bit is in computer programming. Let’s take a look at that literature to see how well the framework of biological evolution maps to (one form of) technological progress.This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article "Progress in Programming as Evolution", published on...
2022-03-1016 min
What's New Under the SunPulling more fuel efficient cars into existenceLike the rest of New Things Under the Sun, this article will be updated as the state of the academic literature evolves; you can read the latest version here.Note: An audio version of New Things Under the Sun is now available on all major podcast platforms. Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon, StitcherThink of new technologies as proceeding through a set of stages: * Basic scientific research that explores phenomena* Applied research to better understand how to harness certain phenomena* Technology development to capture and orchestrate phenomena for a purpose
2022-02-2528 minNew Things Under the SunPulling more fuel efficient cars into existenceIf you want to shape the direction of technology, you can try to pull the kinds of technology you want into existence by shaping how markets will receive different kinds of technology.One specific context where we have some really nice evidence about the efficacy of pull policies is the automobile market. Making fuel more expensive or just flat out mandating carmakers meet certain emissions standards seems to pretty reliably nudge automakers into developing cleaner and more fuel efficient vehicles. We’ve got two complementary lines of evidence here: patents and measures of progress in fu...
2022-02-2529 min
What's New Under the Sun"Patent Stocks" and Technological InertiaLike the rest of New Things Under the Sun, this article will be updated as the state of the academic literature evolves; you can read the latest version here.Note: An audio version of New Things Under the Sun is now available on all major podcast platforms. Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon, StitcherThere’s this idea that technology is characterized by path dependency: once you start going down one technology trajectory, you kind of get locked in and it’s hard to switch to another, possibly better trajectory. That can happen for lots of reasons, but...
2022-02-0929 minNew Things Under the Sun"Patent Stocks" and Technological InertiaThere’s this idea that technology is characterized by path dependency: once you start going down one technology trajectory, you kind of get locked in and it’s hard to switch to another, possibly better trajectory. That can happen for lots of reasons, but one possibility is that it’s something about the nature of knowledge itself. The more you know, the more you can learn: knowledge begets more knowledge. So whichever technology trajectory we start on becomes the one we know the most about, and therefore the one it makes most sense to stick with. One line of...
2022-02-0929 minNew Things Under the SunCombinatorial Innovation and Progress in the Very Long RunWe can say very little about the long-run outlook of technological change, and even less about the exact form such change might take. But a certain class of models of innovation - models of combinatorial innovation - does provide some insight about how technological progress may look over very long time frames. Let’s have a look.This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article Combinatorial Innovation and Progress in the Very Long Run, published on New Things Under the Sun. Articles mentioned:Weitzman, Martin L. 1998. Recombinant Growth. Qua...
2022-01-2130 minNew Things Under the SunConservatism in ScienceIt might seem obvious that we want bold new ideas in science. But in fact, really novel work poses a tradeoff. While novel ideas might sometimes be much better than the status quo, they might usually be much worse. Moreover, it is hard to assess the quality of novel ideas because they’re so, well, novel. Existing knowledge is not as applicable to sizing them up. For those reasons, it might be better to actually discourage novel ideas, and to instead encourage slow and incremental expansion of the knowledge frontier. Or maybe not.For better or worse, th...
2022-01-2123 minNew Things Under the SunBuilding a New Research FieldSuppose we think there should be more research on some topic: asteroid deflection, the efficacy of social distancing, building safe artificial intelligence, etc. How do we get scientists to work more on the topic? This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article , published on New Things Under the Sun. Articles mentioned:Myers, Kyle. 2020. The Elasticity of Science. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 12(4): 103-34. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20180518Hill, Ryan, Yian Yin, Carolyn Stein, Dashun Wang, and Benjamin F. Jones. 2021. Adaptability and the Pivot Penalty in Science. S...
2022-01-2118 minNew Things Under the SunInnovation (mostly) gets harderOne of the most influential economics of innovation papers from the last decade is “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find” by Bloom, Jones, Van Reenen, and Webb, ultimately published in 2020 but in earlier draft circulation for years. While the paper is ostensibly concerned with testing a prediction of some economic growth models, it’s broader fame is attributable to it’s documentation of a striking fact: across varied domains, the R&D efforts necessary to eke out technological improvement keep getting higher. Let’s take a look at their evidence, as well as some complementary evidence from other papers.T...
2022-01-2021 minNew Things Under the SunPublication Bias is RealPublication bias is when academic journals make publication of a paper contingent on the results obtained. How big of an issue is this really?This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article Publication Bias is Real, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Frankel, Alexander and Maximilian Kasy. Forthcoming. Which findings should be published? American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mic.20190133&&from=fBreznau, Nate, Eike Mark Rinke, Alexander Wuttke, Muna Adem, Jule Adriaans, Amalia Alvarez-Benjumea, Henrik K. Andersen, et...
2022-01-2022 minNew Things Under the SunWhy is publication bias worse in some fields than others?Two studies suggest the social sciences have bigger problems with publication bias than do the biological sciences, which tend to have more problems than the hard sciences. Why?This podcast is a read through of the (initial version of the) article Why is publication bias worse in some fields than others?, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Fanelli, Daniele, Rodrigo Costas, and John P. A. Ioannidis. 2017. Meta-assessment of bias in science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114(14): 3714-3719. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1618569114...
2022-01-2015 minNew Things Under the SunPublication bias without editors? The case of preprint serversPublication bias can distort our picture of scientific evidence. One plausible solution to publication bias is to create a home for work that for, whatever reason, struggles to find a home in a good journal. Would that work? One place to get some evidence on this is to look at our experience with preprint servers. This podcast is a read through of the (initial version of the) article Publication bias without editors? The case of preprint servers, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Frankel, Alexander, and Maximilian Kasy. Forthcoming. Which Findings...
2022-01-2012 minNew Things Under the SunHow a field fixes itself: the applied turn in economicsGetting an academic field to change its ways is hard. But it does happen. And I think changes in the field of economics are a good illustration of some of the dynamics that make that possible.This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article How a field fixes itself: the applied turn in economics, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Leamer, Edward E. 1983. Let’s Take the Con Out of Econometrics. American Economic Review 73(1): 31-43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1803924Hamermesh, Daniel S. 2013. Si...
2022-01-2030 minNew Things Under the SunAn example of successful innovation by distributed teams: academia It’s long been assumed that the best sorts of innovation happen when smart people work in an environment where spontaneous face-to-face interaction is the norm. Importantly, if that’s true, it implies the widespread transition to more remote work - where spontaneous face-to-face interaction is not possible - poses a threat to innovation. In this podcast, I want to look at a case study for a sector that:engages in frontier knowledge workhas strong incentives to adopt practices that produce better outcomeshas been well studiedhas increasingly moved to a model of remote collaborationI am talking, of co...
2022-01-2025 minNew Things Under the SunOne question, many answersSuppose you set loose a bunch of scientists on the same question, letting each use their best judgment on the method to answer a question. Would you expect them to come to the same conclusions?Unfortunately, the truth is the state of our “methodological technology” just isn’t there yet. There remains a core of unresolvable uncertainty and randomness in the best of circumstances. Science isn’t certain. This podcast is an audio read through of (initial version of the) article One question, many answers, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentione...
2022-01-2018 minNew Things Under the SunAdjacent Knowledge is UsefulThe universe of knowledge is vast. Is there any rhyme or reason to searching through it? What kind of knowledge is most likely to be useful for an innovator?This is a big literature, but today I want to look at three papers that use different metrics to suggest knowledge which is distinct but close to your existing knowledge tends to be most useful.This is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article Adjacent Knowledge is Useful, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentionedLane, Jacqueline...
2022-01-2012 minNew Things Under the SunMeasuring Knowledge Spillovers: The Trouble with Patent CitationsAs a source of data for studying innovation, patents are really seductive. There’s nothing else quite like them. And at first glance, one of the most appealing things patents is that they cite each other. That means, patents might help us understand how knowledge spills over from one application to another, which is one of the most distinctive things about innovation, as compared to other economic activities.But there are dangers. A citation might not mean quite what you think. This podcast looks at their shortcomings, while ultimately concluding they can still provide value, especially when th...
2022-01-2018 minNew Things Under the SunAn Example of High Returns to Publicly Funded R&DHow, exactly, should you increase your R&D spending? One kind of program seems to work and would be an excellent candidate for more funds: the US’ Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and the European Union’s SME instrument (which was modeled on the SBIR). This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article An Example of High Returns to Publicly Funded R&D, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Howell, Sabrina T. 2017. Financing Innovation: Evidence from R&D grants. American Economics Review 107(4): 1136-1164. DOI: 10.1257/aer...
2022-01-1621 minNew Things Under the SunImporting KnowledgeWhen a scientist or inventor migrates, they take their knowledge with them. And in the right environment, that knowledge can act as the seed of something much larger than an individual can accomplish.This is an audio read through of the (initial draft of the) article Importing Knowledge, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles Mentioned:Moser, Petra, Alessandra Voena, and Fabian Waldinger. 2014. German Jewish Émigrés and US Invention. American Economic Review 104(10): 3222-55. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.10.3222Ferrucci, Edoardo. 2020. Migration, innovation and technological diversion: German patenting after the collapse of th...
2022-01-1618 minNew Things Under the SunWhy proximity matters: who you knowMaybe one of the most important functions of cities is to introduce us to new people. Being close seems to be very important for initiating and consolidating new relationships, but once those relationships are formed it’s no longer so important that you stay physically close - at least from the perspective of facilitating innovation.This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article Why Proximity Matters: Who You Know, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Catalini, Christian. 2018. Microgeography and the Direction of Inventive Activity. Management Sc...
2022-01-1611 minNew Things Under the SunUrban Social Infrastructure and InnovationInnovation disproportionately happens in cities. What is it about packing people together that makes them so innovative?This is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article Urban Social Infrastructure and Innovation, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Carlino, Gerald A., Satyajit Chatterjee, and Robert M. Hunt. 2007. Urban density and the rate of invention. Journal of Urban Economics 61(3): 389-419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2006.08.003Berkes, Enrico, and Ruben Gaetani. 2020. The Geography of Unconventional Innovation. The Economic Journalueaa111. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa111Roche, Maria...
2022-01-1608 minNew Things Under the SunHow long does it take to go from science to technology?Two different lines of evidence suggest 20 years is a good rule of thumb for how long it takes to go from science to technology: statistical correlations between R&D and productivity, and citations between patents and scientific articles.This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article How long does it take to go from science to technology?, published in New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Adams, James D. 1990. Fundamental stocks of knowledge and productivity growth. Journal of Political Economy 98(4): 673-702. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2937764...
2022-01-1618 minNew Things Under the SunFree knowledge and innovationSometimes obvious ideas work. If you want to encourage more innovation, give people better access to knowledge: libraries.This is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article Free Knowledge and Innovation, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Berkes, Enrico, and Peter Nencka. 2020. Knowledge Access: The Effects of Carnegie Libraries on Innovation. Working Paper.Furman, Jeffrey L., Markus Nagler, and Martin Watzinger. 2018. Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program. NBER Working Paper No 24660Thompson, Neil C., and Douglas Hanley. 2020. Science...
2022-01-1610 minNew Things Under the SunPublish-or-Perish and the Quality of ScienceHow did we end up in a situation where so many scientific papers do not replicate? One theory, is that the publish-or-perish system is to blame.This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article Publish-or-perish and the Quality of Science, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentionedSmaldino, Paul E., and Richard McElreath. 2016. The natural selection of bad science. Royal Society of Open Science 3: 160384. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160384Hill, Ryan, and Carolyn Stein. 2021. Race to the bottom: competition and quality in science. Working paper.
2022-01-1617 minNew Things Under the SunGender and What Gets ResearchedHow do scientists and inventors decide what kinds of projects are interesting and valuable? Likely their individual life experiences influence these judgments, and one place we can see this is in the different research choices of men and women.This podcast is an audio readthrough of the (initial version of the) article Gender and What Gets Researched, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles Mentioned:West, Jevin D., Jennifer Jacquet, Molly M. King, Shelley J. Correll, and Carl T. Bergstrom. 2013. The role of gender in scholarly authorship. PLOS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal...
2022-01-1614 minNew Things Under the SunRipples in the River of KnowledgeWe tend to think science often leads to new technologies; but actually most patents don't cite any scientific articles at all and surveys also tell us a lot of invention doesn't owe anything directly to science. But what about indirectly?This podcast is an read through of the (initial version of the) article Ripples in the River of Knowledge, published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Marx, Matt, and Aaron Fuegi. 2020. Reliance on science: Worldwide front-page patent citations to scientific articles. Strategic Managements Journal 41(9): 1572-1594. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3145...
2022-01-1518 min
What's New Under the SunBuilding a new research fieldLike the rest of New Things Under the Sun, this article will be updated as the state of the academic literature evolves; you can read the latest version here.Suppose we think there should be more research on some topic: asteroid deflection, the efficacy of social distancing, building safe artificial intelligence, etc. How do we get scientists to work more on the topic? Buy itOne approach is to just pay people to work on the topic. Capitalism!The trouble is, this kind of approach can be expensive. To estimate just...
2022-01-0718 min
New Things Under the SunEntrepreneurship is contagiousIs entrepreneurship contagious? In this podcast I review some evidence that it is!This is an audio readthrough of the (initial version of) the article "Entrepreneurship is contagious", published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Marx, Matt, and David H. Hsu. 2021. Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Commercialization of Academic Science: Evidence from “Twin” Discoveries. Management Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.3966Nanda, Ramana, and Jesper B. Sørensen. 2010. Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship. Management Science 56(7): 1116-1126. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1100.1179Giannetti, Mariassunta, and Andrei Simonov. 2009. Social Interactions and Entrepreneurial Activity. Journal of Econo...
2021-12-2318 min
New Things Under the SunScience as a map of unfamiliar terrainWhat kinds of technology benefit most from a scientific foundation to draw on? In this podcast I look at some papers suggesting it's especially helpful in unfamiliar domains. Places where the inventor is inexperienced, or the terrain especially treacherous.This is podcast is an audio readthrough of the (initial version of the) article "Science as a map of unfamiliar terrain" published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Arts, Sam, and Lee Fleming. 2018. Paradise of Novelty - or Loss of Human Capital? Exploring New Fields and Inventive Output. Organization Science 29(6): 1074-1092. https://doi...
2021-12-2314 minNew Things Under the SunMore science leads to more innovationSometimes obvious ideas work: if you want more technology, more science helps. In this episode I look at four episodes where science was increased and we can detect positive follow-on effects in related technology fields.This podcast is an audio readthrough of the (initial version of the) article "More science leads to more innovation", published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Roach, Michael, and Wesley M. Cohen. 2012. Lens or Prism? Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows from Public Research. Management Science 59(2): iv-527. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1120.1644Marx, Matt...
2021-12-2319 min
New Things Under the SunThe "idea" of being an entrepreneurWhat if one reason people don't become entrepreneurs is they just never think of it as as option for their lives? In this podcast, I review some papers suggesting this is the case.This is podcast is an audio readthrough of the (initial version) of the article 'The "idea" of being an entrepreneur' published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Lindquist, Matthew J., Joeri Sol, and Mirjam Van Praag. 2015. Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children? Journal of Labor Economics 33(2): 665-709. https://doi.org/10.1086/678493Rocha, Vera, and Mirjam van Praag. 2020...
2021-12-2313 min
New Things Under the SunWhat are the returns to R&D?How much value does a dollar of R&D create? This is a really hard question to answer, but a 2021 paper by Benjamin Jones and Larry Summers describes a thought experiment that suggests the answer is "very high!" In this podcast, I walk through the thought experiment.This podcast is an audio version of (the initial version of) the article "What are the Returns to R&D?" published on New Things Under the Sun.Articles mentioned:Jones, Benjamin F., and Lawrence H. Summers. 2021. A Calculation of the Social Rate of Return to Innovation...
2021-12-2325 min
What's New Under the SunGender and What Gets ResearchedLike the rest of New Things Under the Sun, this article will be updated as the state of the academic literature evolves; you can read the latest version here.How do scientists and inventors decide what to work on? Part of it comes down to what they find personally meaningful. And that, in turn, can be informed by your specific life experiences.We can actually see this in data, if we look in the right places. Every human life is unique, but in this article we’re going to collapse diverse life experiences down into so...
2021-12-2014 min
What's New Under the SunCombinatorial innovation and technological progress in the very long runLike the rest of New Things Under the Sun, this article will be updated as the state of the academic literature evolves; you can read the latest version here.Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series imagines a world where there are deep statistical regularities underlying social history, which “psychohistorian” Hari Seldon uses to forecast (and even alter) the long-run trajectory of galactic civilization. Foundation is science fiction, but what if we could develop a model of the “deep laws” governing society? What might they look like? Well, as a starting principle, we might reflect that in the very l...
2021-11-0429 min
What's New Under the SunConservatism in scienceLike the rest of New Things Under the Sun, this article will be updated as the state of the academic literature evolves; you can read the latest version here.It might seem obvious that we want bold new ideas in science. But in fact, really novel work poses a tradeoff. While novel ideas might sometimes be much better than the status quo, they might usually be much worse. Moreover, it is hard to assess the quality of novel ideas because they’re so, well, novel. Existing knowledge is not as applicable to sizing them up. For those re...
2021-10-1223 min
The City's BackyardThe City's Backyard Ep 59: Get Fit For Fall! We chat with the experts: Susan Clancy from Bethel, CT about why we should get exercise outside in the fresh air! Plus we talk with NikkiFit in New Jersey about the benefits of indoor virtual workouts!The Fall weather is here with cooler weather! What does that mean for your workouts? How do we stay in shape with challenges at the gym wearing masks and a global pandemic still going on in the world? We chat with Susan Clancy about how to get moving outside this fall and what we can do as we age to stay strong! Plus we check in with Nicole Delli Bovi aka NikkiFit and talk about workouts from the safety of your own home and why wearing a mask at the gym while working out can be a total drag...
2021-10-0541 min
What's New Under the SunScience as a map of unfamiliar terrainHello! Here’s what’s new this week on New Things Under the Sun:New ArticlesI’ve put up a new article titled Science as a map of unfamiliar terrain. From the introduction: Two things seem to be true: more science leads to more technological progress, but only a minority of new technologies directly rely on science. So what kinds of technology benefit most from a scientific foundation to draw on?One way to conceptualize the difference between science and technology, is that scientific knowledge tells us about how the world...
2021-09-0813 min
"Fun" and Games PodcastSide Quests Episode 101: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint with Asa GreenRiverSide Quests is back and this episode's host is Dad, Husband, podcaster, streamer, producer, community manager and member of the "Ghosts," Asa GreenRiver! The game he is talking about today is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint by Ubisoft. You can find this episode's host on twitter or check out his work here!
2021-08-3015 min
What's New Under the SunEntrepreneurship is contagiousIs entrepreneurship contagious? Consider a few cases:Two different teams of scientists make substantially the same discovery at roughly the same time. One of the teams goes on to found a startup based on the idea; the other does not. Why?Marx and Hsu (2021) study basically this situation. They identify ~20,000 such “twin” discoveries by finding cases where two papers by two different teams are published within a year of each other, share a large portion of subsequent citations, and are cited at least one time in the same parenthetical block, (for example, “(Clancy 2021, Marx and Hsu 20...
2021-08-0517 min
Ben Yeoh ChatsMatt Clancy on innovation, progress studies and remote work.Matt Clancy is a progress fellow at Emergent Ventures. He teaches at Iowa State University and writes on Substack a newsletter called New Things Under the Sun, which you should subscribe to if you are interested in anything innovation related. Matt has also synthesised many of the emerging studies on remote working. Transcript and video links here.
We discuss whether progress has been stagnating and the importance of moral and social progress as well as technological.
Whether small team or large teams are better for invention.
How important are agglomeration effects and how...
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