Working Papers
Working papers
5. Indirect Cost Recovery in U.S. Innovation Policy: History, Evidence, and Avenues for Reform
(with Pierre Azoulay and Bhaven Sampat)
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​prepared for the 2025 NBER Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy conference
Media: New York Times, STAT News, Project Syndicate, Good Science Project
4. Funding the U.S. Scientific Training Ecosystem: New Data, Methods, and Evidence
(with Dror Shvadron, Hansen Zhang, and Lee Fleming)
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Draft posting June 2025
3. The Therapeutic Consequences of the War: World War II and the 20th Century Expansion of Biomedicine
(with Bhaven Sampat)
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2. Coordinated R&D Programs and the Creation of New Industries
(with Maria Roche)
revise & resubmit at Strategic Management Journal
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1. Beyond Innovation: The Composition and Dynamics of Technology-enabled Entrepreneurship
(with Jorge Guzman and Innessa Colaiacovo)
revise & resubmit at Strategic Management Journal
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Media: Entrepreneur Magazine
Projects in progress
The Long-Term Effects of Systemic Cuts to Federal Research Funding
(with Hansen Zhang)​
draft expected summer 2025​
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Economic Espionage in the 21st century
(with Britta Glennon and Lia Sheer)
draft expected summer 2025
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Additional projects underway on:
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The estimation of public-private R&D spillovers over long horizons
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Windfalls to technical knowledge stocks in high-tech industries
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Organizational complexity as a source of technology lock-in
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Automation and the decline of organized labor in America
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Unions, division of rents, and reskilling in an age of automation
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