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Publications

Crisis Innovation and the U.S. Innovation System

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For a summary of my work on this theme, please see this NBER Reporter article.

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For a recent reflection on AI innovation and military strategy, see this comment, forthcoming in the NBER Economics of Artificial Intelligence annual conference volume.

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Forthcoming in NBER Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy , Volume 5

Media: New York Times, STAT NewsProject Syndicate, Good Science Project, ITIF, NBER Reporter, NBER Digest

Amicus Brief filed in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. NIH (D. Mass. 1:25-cv-10338): here

12. The Government Patent Register: A New Resource for Measuring U.S. Government-Funded Patenting

Research Policy, 54(1), 105142. 2025.

(with Bhaven Sampat)

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Data on U.S. gov't funded patents available here

11. America, Jump-started: World War II R&D and the Takeoff of the U.S. Innovation System

American Economic Review, 113(12), 3323-3356. 2023.

(with Bhaven Sampat)

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Media: NBER Digest, HBS Working Knowledge, VoxEU, New Things Under the Sun

Data on World War II secrecy orders available here

8. Crisis Innovation Policy from World War II to COVID-19

(with Bhaven Sampat)

NBER Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy, 135-181. 2022.

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7. The Economics of Crisis Innovation Policy: A Historical Perspective

(with Bhaven Sampat)

AEA Papers & Proceedings, 111, 346-350. 2021.

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Automation and Technology Diffusion

5. Organizational and Economic Obstacles to Automation: A Cautionary Tale from AT&T in the Twentieth Century

(with James Feigenbaum) **Strategy Science conference Best Paper award

Management Science, 70(12), 8520-8540. 2024.

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Media: The Economist, American Enterprise Institute (1, 2)

Managing Creative Workers

2. Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 102(3), 583-599. 2020.

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1. Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development

RAND Journal of Economics, 48(2), 438-466. 2017.

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©2020 by Daniel P. Gross

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