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Daniel Gross

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Associate Professor of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business
daniel.gross@duke.edu
100 Fuqua Drive, A105K, PO Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708
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In the News

Published December 3, 2024
Research & Innovation Seed Grants Total Nearly $2 Million
Published October 9, 2024
Minimizing the negative effects of AI-induced technological unemployment
Published September 4, 2024
The Brutal Economics of Reaching Net Zero
Published June 11, 2024
The Economics of AI and the Impending Robot Takeover, Part I
Published February 14, 2024
The roots of US innovation clusters
Published February 12, 2024
To Understand AI Adoption, Focus on the Interdependencies
Published December 20, 2023
A short history of tractors in English: What the tractor and the horse tell you about generative AI
Published September 8, 2023
The Latest Thinking on Biden’s Biggest Economic Idea
Published August 30, 2023
New Technologies Always Scare Us. Is A.I. Any Different?
Published August 23, 2023
Can A.I. Take a Joke?
Published August 17, 2023
AI lessons from the telephone operators of the 1920s
Published July 18, 2023
Telephone operation was a good career for women. Then it got automated.
Published July 13, 2023
How to Impede Technological Progress
Published June 2, 2023
Our first podcast episode made by AI
Published February 9, 2023
How research universities are evolving to strengthen regional economies
Published December 19, 2022
Research: Innovation Sparked by Crises
Published December 15, 2022
Breaking down an $80 billion surge in place-based industrial policy
Published December 12, 2022
Why the Age of American Progress Ended
Published October 1, 2022
Crisis Innovation: Historical Evidence, Insights, and Open Questions
Published April 20, 2022
The hidden costs of securing innovation: The manifold impacts of compulsory invention secrecy
Published April 15, 2022
When Extreme Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Published December 29, 2021
America’s Wars Are Far More Costly than the Pentagon Admits
Published December 17, 2021
Exploring the impact of automation and new technologies on the future of U.S. workers and their families
Published June 30, 2021
Has The Pandemic Ushered In A New Era Of Innovation?
Published June 28, 2021
World War II’s Lesson for After the Pandemic
Published March 15, 2021
Evaluating World War II-era crisis innovation: My long-read Q&A with Daniel P. Gross
Published February 5, 2021
La compétition est-elle un frein ou un moteur pour la créativité?
Published February 3, 2021
Automation and the Fate of Young Workers: Evidence from Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century
Published January 21, 2021
The right and wrong lessons from ‘crisis innovation’ during the pandemic
Published December 3, 2020
Wartime Innovation: Lessons From the Office of Scientific R&D
Published November 25, 2020
AI automation promises to have a big, and not always positive, impact
Published November 25, 2020
Adjusting to Automation
Published November 9, 2020
What happened to female workers after telephone operator jobs went away?
Published October 13, 2020
Science research and the lessons of World War II
Published September 1, 2020
World War II R&D Spending Catalyzed Post-War Innovation Hubs
Published June 25, 2020
The long-term gains of Big Science
Published June 15, 2020
What can we learn from America’s big science research investment during World War II?
Published February 12, 2020
Collusive Investments in Technological Compatibility
Published December 12, 2019
6 reasons your startup should welcome competition
Published September 24, 2019
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
Published July 1, 2019
WWII Policy Kept Patents Secret, Slowed Innovation
Published January 20, 2019
Creativity under fire: The effects of competition on creative production
Published November 12, 2018
SnapFact: How the Goldilocks concept applies to creativity
Published October 12, 2018
How to incentivise creativity
Published November 21, 2017
6 Ways to Create a Competitive Work Culture That's Team First (And Not Me First)
Published May 21, 2016
For Workplace Creativity, Find the Right Dose of Competition
Published November 16, 2015
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?