The Hidden Costs of Securing Innovation: The Manifold Impacts of Compulsory Invention Secrecy

Forthcoming at Management Science

Press: NBER Digest (Jul 2019), HBS Working Knowledge, VoxEU

Crisis Innovation Policy from World War II to COVID-19

(with Bhaven Sampat)

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

Press: The Atlantic, NPR, ResOrg      

Press: AEIdeas

Automation and Technology Diffusion

Press: Cato Research Brief

Managing Creative Workers

Press: New York Times, Inc.com, LiveMint, FinWeek, Freelancer, VoxEU, HBR (France), HBS Working Knowledge

Answering the Call of Automation: How the Labor Market Adjusted to the Mechanization of Telephone Operation

(with James Feigenbaum)

revise & resubmit at The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Organizational Frictions and Increasing Returns to Automation: Lessons from AT&T in the Twentieth Century

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

revise & resubmit at Management Science

Abstract (click to expand)

Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-war Innovation

(with Bhaven Sampat)

note: a significantly expanded version of this paper is underway, but has been delayed multiple years by the closure of the U.S. National Archives to outside researchers during the COVID-19 pandemic. new draft expected Fall 2022.

Press: NBER Digest (Sep 2020), Axios, AEIdeas, Mises Institute

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

(with Bhaven Sampat)

resubmitted to Research Policy

Coordinated R&D Programs and the Creation of New Industries

(with Bhaven Sampat and Maria Roche)

Abstract (click to expand)

Innovation and the Dynamics of New Enterprise

(with Jorge Guzman and Innessa Colaiacovo)

draft available upon request

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

drafting

(with Britta Glennon and Lia Sheer)

The Long-Run Effects of the World War II Medical Research Effort on Science, Technology, and Practice

(with Bhaven Sampat)

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

(with Bhaven Sampat)

Good Reverberations? Teacher Influence in Music Composition since 1450

by Karol Jan Borowiecki

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

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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.