New Things Under the Sun

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New Things Under the Sun

Synthesizing academic research about innovation, science, and creativity.

  1. 25 DE NOV.

    Training Scientists in Low and Middle Income Countries

    New 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) art...

    20min

  2. 15 DE AGO.

    The Decline in Writing About Progress

    The frequency of words associated with "progress" in English, German, and French books rose during the era of industrialization, but is down since the 1950s, at least according to google. Is this a signal of declining cultural interest in progress, as a concept? Or just an artifact of how google constructed its text corpus?This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article The Decline in Writing About Progress, originally published on New Things Under the Sun.

    27min

  3. 15 DE AGO.

    Incentives to Invent at Universities

    Prior to the 2000s, many European countries practiced something called “the professor’s privilege” wherein university professors retained patent rights to inventions they made while employed at the university. This was a “privilege” because the norm is for patent ownership to be assigned to the organization that employs an inventor; professors were an exception to this norm. American universities, in contrast, had long followed a different approach, where patent rights were typically assigned...

    20min

  4. 20 DE JUN.

    Twitter and the Spread of Academic Knowledge

    A 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...

    22min

  5. 3 DE JUN.

    When the Robots Take Your Job

    Note: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...

    39min

  6. 4 DE ABR.

    Can 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...

    27min

  7. 3 DE ABR.

    Do 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...

    16min

  8. 2 DE ABR.

    Patents (weakly) predict innovation

    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...

    16min
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Synthesizing academic research about innovation, science, and creativity.

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  • Criado por
    Matt Clancy
  • Anos de atividade
    2022 - 2024
  • Episódios
    63
  • Classificação
    Livre
  • Copyright
    © 2024 New Things Under the Sun
  • Site do podcast
    New Things Under the Sun

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