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Ripples in the River of Knowledge
Listen now (17 min) | Measuring the flow of science from upstream to downstream
Matt Clancy
Apr 6
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More Science Leads to More Innovation
Listen now (19 min) | It's not the only thing, but it's a thing
Matt Clancy
Mar 23
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What Has Covid-19 Taught Us About Remote Work?
What I've Been Up To
Matt Clancy
Mar 16
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Free Knowledge and Innovation
Listen now (10 min) | Sometimes obvious ideas work. If you want to encourage more innovation, give people better access to knowledge. Let's start in th…
Matt Clancy
Mar 2
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Adjacent Knowledge is Useful
Listen now (12 min) | Innovation is hard because you have to step into the unknown and it’s never certain what you’ll find there. Most of the time, not…
Matt Clancy
Feb 23
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Proximity: More Important for Meeting than Collaborating?
Listen now | Innovation disproportionately happens in cities. What is it about packing people together that makes them so innovative? Last week we look…
Matt Clancy
Feb 16
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What's Ails the Social Sciences?
+ Something new on remote work
Matt Clancy
Feb 9
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Cities as a Platform to Mix Up Knowledge
Listen now (7 min) | Innovation disproportionately happens in cities. Carlino, Chatterjee, and Hunt (2007) find, all else equal, that doubling the numb…
Matt Clancy
Feb 2
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How a field fixes itself: the applied turn in economics
Listen now (30 min) | Getting an academic field to change its ways is hard. Independent scientists can’t just go rogue - they need research funding, th…
Matt Clancy
Jan 19
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How useful are learning curves, really?
Listen now (23 min) | In economic models of “learning-by-doing,” technological progress is an incidental outcome of production: the more a firm or work…
Matt Clancy
Jan 5
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On Collaborating with an AI, Writing, and Innovation
Listen now | Heads up: this week’s post is a bit different, in that it’s not built primarily from academic papers. We’ll be back to the normal format i…
Matt Clancy
Dec 22, 2020
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How bad is publish-or-perish for the quality of science?
Listen now (17 min) | How did we end up in a situation where so many scientific papers do not replicate? Replication isn’t the only thing that counts i…
Matt Clancy
Dec 8, 2020
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