A compilation of innovation-related PhD job market papers for 2025, showcasing diverse research topics and insights into the innovation landscape.
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The post announces a PhD short-course and a new blog while sharing a collection of innovation-related job market papers from 2025.
The post provides updates from Matt Clancy, including the release of a new research paper analyzing the potential impact of a 40% budget cut to the NIH. The study examines 27 years of NIH grants and their connection to drug discov...
Matt Clancy announces his new role as head of Open Philanthropy’s Abundance and Growth Fund, a $120+ million initiative aimed at accelerating economic growth and reducing living costs. He is seeking to hire 2-4 individuals for str...
The post provides updates to articles on government funding for R&D and productivity growth, discussing the return on government-funded R&D, the composition of R&D spending, and the impact of AI on R&D. It also addresses the impac...
The US government plays a significant role in supporting research and development (R&D) in developing countries. The article discusses the high social return on investment of R&D in developing countries, the benefits of supporting...
The post covers updates to articles and announcements about the author's job changes. It also includes information about new pieces of writing, conferences, and fellowship opportunities. The author also discusses updates to the li...
The article provides answers to frequently asked questions about US government funding for R&D. It discusses the amount of money spent on R&D, the types of R&D funded, the return on investment of R&D, and the impact of government ...
The article discusses the impact of government funding for research and development (R&D) on productivity growth. It reviews academic literature and presents findings from various papers, including those by Jones and Summers, Fiel...
The article discusses the impact of prediction technologies, such as artificial intelligence, on novices and experts in various fields, including gold-mining, drug discovery, and material sciences. It explores how novices and expe...
0Prediction Technologies and Innovation
2025-01-08 •
The text discusses the impact of prediction technologies on innovation in various fields, such as structural biology, drug discovery, and material science. It highlights the potential downsides of prediction technologies, includin...
0Innovation Job Market Papers 2024 (3/3)
2024-12-06 •
This is the third post of the special annual edition of What’s New Under the Sun, providing a list of innovation-related PhD job market papers from 2024. The titles, abstracts, and links to the papers are included, and the post is...
0Innovation Job Market Papers 2024 (2/3)
2024-12-06 •
This post is the second of three special annual editions of What’s New Under the Sun, featuring titles, abstracts, and links to innovation-related PhD job market papers from 2024. The titles are presented in random order, and the ...
0Innovation Job Market Papers 2024 (1/3)
2024-12-06 •
This is the first post of a special annual edition of What’s New Under the Sun, featuring titles, abstracts, and links to innovation-related PhD job market papers from 2024. The post also includes announcements about living litera...
The article discusses the evidence on the effects of training programs for scientists in lower and middle income countries (LMICs). It focuses on the impact of training programs that leverage the international community, such as f...
0Time for More Living Literature Reviews
2024-08-30 •
The text discusses the concept of living literature reviews, which are collections of articles that synthesize recent academic research and are written for non-specialists. The author provides examples of living literature reviews...
0The Decline in Writing About Progress
2024-08-15 •
The article discusses the decline in language about progress in English, French, and German books since the 1950s. It explores the relationship between cultural attitudes towards progress and innovation, and how language about pro...
0Incentives to Invent at Universities
2024-07-26 •
The article discusses the impact of the 'professor's privilege' policy on university research commercialization in Europe. It presents findings from various studies in Norway, Finland, Germany, and Denmark, indicating that the pol...
0Twitter and the Spread of Academic Knowledge
2024-06-20 •
The article discusses the impact of Twitter on the spread of academic knowledge, particularly in relation to citations and hiring decisions. It explores various studies that have been conducted to measure the correlation between t...
0When the Robots Take Your Job
2024-06-04 •
The article discusses the implications of automating non-innovation tasks and the consequences of capital replacing human workers. It explores the status quo scenario where human labor is relatively scarce and the wage collapse sc...
0Some Announcements
2024-06-04 •
Matt Clancy shares a series of announcements in his newsletter, including a job opening for the Innovation Policy grantmaking program at Open Philanthropy. He also discusses his recent appearances on three different podcasts, cove...
0May 2024 Updates
2024-05-08 •
The post covers updates to articles on New Things Under the Sun, including opportunities for UK-based academic researchers, aspiring writers, and academics interested in synthesizing and communicating research for non-specialists....
0Can we learn about innovation from patent data?
2024-04-04 •
The text discusses the use of patent data to measure innovation. It explores the advantages and disadvantages of using patents as a measure of innovation, and the biases and limitations associated with patents. It also examines th...
0Do Studies Based on Patents Get Different Results?
2024-04-03 •
The article discusses the use of patents as a measure of innovation and whether studies based on patents get different results than those based on non-patent data. The author examines 37 articles and finds that studies relying on ...