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Daniel Gross CV

Associate Professor of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business
100 Fuqua Drive, A105K, PO Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708
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Overview


Daniel P. Gross is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He researches the causes and consequences of technological change. Recurring themes in his work include crisis innovation and its impacts on the innovation system; automation and its effects on firms, workers, and labor markets; and incentives and other tools for managing creative workers within organizations. His work frequently uses historical examples of industries undergoing significant technological change as contexts to investigate recurrent or modern economic questions.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Business Administration · 2024 - Present Fuqua School of Business

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Recent Publications


The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting

Journal Article Research Policy · January 1, 2025 We introduce new historical administrative data identifying U.S. government-funded patents since the early twentieth century. In addition to the funding agency, the data report whether the government has title to the patent (“title” patents) or funded a pa ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


The Decline of Government R&D in U.S. Innovation: Establishing Facts and Evaluating Consequences

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027

The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Postwar U.S. Science, Technology, and Innovation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2024

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Education, Training & Certifications


University of California, Berkeley · 2015 Ph.D.
Tufts University · 2008 B.A.