Economics of Innovation
Focusing on understanding the context in which innovation is possible, and examining the role of innovation in growth and distribution.
How Government Drives Innovation
Bill Janeway explains why “efficiency is the enemy of innovation,” and how venture capitalists and the state advance technological change
How MBA Programs Drive Inequality
Business school students are taught to extract resources instead of creating value.
Innovation, Institutions and Governance
The YSI Economics of Innovation Working Group in partnership with the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology is hosting a YSI Conference on “Innovation, Institutions and Governance”.
Stimulating Innovation & Growth
Speculation and Innovation
The Nature of Invention
The Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford researchers and collaborators data mine 200 years of US Patent Office records to uncover the true nature of innovation.
Is Innovation a Good Thing? The Innovation Gap in Pink and Black
Innovation, the commercialization of invention, is both desirable and necessary for growth and higher living standards in modern economies. Innovation’s contribution to the economy is being measured increasingly more precisely, and its contribution has been assessed aseconomically important and growing.
Financial Networks, Financial Innovation & Inequality
How Superstar Companies Like Apple Are Killing America’s High-Tech Future
Few would argue that America’s fortunes rise and fall on its ability to generate technological innovations — to put bold ideas to work and then bring them to market.
Innovation And Its Potential To Damage Society
What if innovation is not an unalloyed good for society? What if it simply adds to our current dystopian dysfunction?
Mission-Oriented Finance for Innovation: new ideas for investment-led growth
“The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.” John M. Keynes, The End of Laissez Faire, 1926 (p. 44)
Governing With A Higher Purpose To Spur Innovation
How can the state manage its central role in the innovation economy if the state itself has become an instrument for facilitating corporate predation?
Law and Innovation: Is Intellectual Property a Path to Progress
Profits Without Prosperity: How Stock Buybacks Manipulate the Market, and Leave Most Americans Worse Off
Five years after the end of the Great Recession, corporate profits are high and the stock market is booming. Yet most Americans are not sharing in the apparent prosperity.