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 Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Business Administration
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2026 - Present
Fuqua School of Business
Recent Scholarly Works
Measuring the production of scientific human capital: New data, methods, and evidence on the U.S. scientific training ecosystem
Journal article Research Policy · December 1, 2026 We develop a dissertation-based methodology for measuring PhD populations and use it to present new evidence on who funds STEM PhD training in the United States, how many graduates are trained in areas of strategic national importance, and the effects of p ... Full text CiteWWII and the evolution of US federal research funding.
Journal article Science (New York, N.Y.) · July 2026 Many fundamental innovation policies were developed during World War II that persist in some form to this day. ... Full text CiteIndirect Cost Recovery in U.S. Innovation Policy: History, Evidence, and Avenues for Reform
Journal article · March 2025 Full text CiteRecent Grants
The Decline of Government R&D in U.S. Innovation: Establishing Facts and Evaluating Consequences
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Postwar U.S. Science, Technology, and Innovation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2024View All Grants
Education
University of California, Berkeley ·
2015
Ph.D.
Tufts University ·
2008
B.A.