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Science is getting harder
Evidence that discoveries are getting smaller on average
Matt Clancy
Jun 1
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Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find Because of the Burden of Knowledge?
Listen now (18 min) | Innovation appears to be getting harder. At least, that’s the conclusion of Bloom, Jones, Van Reenen, and Webb (2020). Across a…
Matt Clancy
Jun 11, 2020
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Conservatism in science
Listen now (23 min) | Some of the forces blocking really new ideas in science
Matt Clancy
Oct 12, 2021
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Innovation gets (mostly) harder
Listen now (21 min) | Micro and macro evidence on the productivity of R&D over time
Matt Clancy
Jun 18, 2021
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Is Technological Progress Slowing?
The Case of American Agriculture
Matt Clancy
Nov 24, 2021
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Progress in Programming as Evolution
Do the same mechanisms that create complex life also create complex technology?
Matt Clancy
Mar 10
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Combinatorial innovation and technological progress in the very long run
Listen now (30 min) | Taking a stab at some psychohistory
Matt Clancy
Nov 4, 2021
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What are the returns to R&D?
Listen now (25 min) | A Thought Experiment by Jones and Summers
Matt Clancy
May 12, 2021
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How common is independent discovery?
Relatively common for ideas we know will be big, but not so much for the rest
Matt Clancy
Jun 22
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An example of successful innovation by distributed teams: academia
Listen now (25 min) | Why remote collaboration is becoming so common in academia, and what we can learn from it
Matt Clancy
Jul 13, 2021
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An example of high returns to publicly funded R&D
Listen now (21 min) | Quasi-experimental evidence from R&D grants to small businesses
Matt Clancy
May 21, 2021
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One Study, Many Results
Listen now (17 min) | Replication is hard, even without publication bias
Matt Clancy
May 5, 2021
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