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Research

Publications

Crisis Innovation and National Competitiveness

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

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

Forthcoming at American Economic Review

(with Bhaven Sampat)

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Media: NBER Digest (Sep 2020)AxiosAEIdeas, Mises Institute, Brookings Institution (12), New York Times

Cited in the 2023 Economic Report of the President

Data on OSRD contracts and patents available here

9. The World War II Crisis Innovation Model: What Was It, and Where Does It Apply?

(with Bhaven Sampat)

Research Policy, 52(9), 104845. 2023.

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

(with Bhaven Sampat)

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

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Media: AEIdeas

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

Accepted at Management Science

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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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Working papers

12. Coordinated R&D Programs and the Creation of New Industries

(with Maria Roche)

revise & resubmit at Strategic Management Journal

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13. The Composition and Dynamics of Technology-enabled Entrepreneurship

(with Jorge Guzman and Innessa Colaiacovo)

revise & resubmit at Strategic Management Journal

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Projects in progress

14. World War II and The Transformation of Medical Science, Technology, and Practice in the mid-20th Century

(with Bhaven Sampat)

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15. The Incidence and Effects of Foreign IP Theft on U.S. Firms and Industries drafting

(with Britta Glennon and Lia Sheer)

16. A Century of Government-funded Invention: Insights from Administrative Data

(with Bhaven Sampat)

Other papers

Good Reverberations? Teacher Influence in Music Composition since 1450

by Karol Jan Borowiecki

Journal of Political Economy, 130(4), 2022.

Over the years 2015-2018, I co-developed this paper from its conception to data collection and measurement of composer similarity, early analysis, framing, and initial drafting, before removing myself from the project to focus on my crisis innovation agenda. The abstract, much of the introduction, and nearly all of the tables and figures in the body of the paper were prepared during this time, after which Karol shepherded the paper through submission, revisions, and the accompanying uncertainty of the R&R process. It's a project I'm fond of (especially given a personal interest in and experience playing the Western classical canon!), and am happy to see well-published.

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