Women engage in less commercial patenting and invention than do men, which may affect
what is invented. Using text analysis of all US biomedical patents filed from 1976 through …

We examine how the premature death of eminent life scientists alters the vitality of their
fields. While the flow of articles by collaborators into affected fields decreases after the death …

We quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on
patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our article makes two contributions …

Text as data techniques offer a great promise: the ability to inductively discover measures
that are useful for testing social science theories with large collections of text. Nearly all text …

There are long-standing concerns that peer review, which is foundational to scientific
institutions like journals and funding agencies, favors conservative ideas over novel ones …

This paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases. We find:(1) the
elasticity of R&D effort with respect to market size is about 1/2 in the cross-section of …

In the span of three years, Indonesia went from being the second worst to the top producer of
scientific journal articles in Southeast Asia. We investigate whether a transparent system of …

Innovation is central to long-run economic growth. This chapter summarizes the state of the
literature on the economics of innovation, highlighting open policy questions. We first …

There are powerful imperatives on governments to support innovation, which have only
grown more urgent amid slowing growth in the developed world and a rapidly changing …

The present document provides the take of innovation economists on the COVID-19
pandemic. It targets the general public and focuses on questions related to the Science …