News Items
Published March 16, 2026
Washington Post
See which jobs are most threatened by AI and who may be able to adapt
Published August 31, 2025
Business North Carolina
Dialing back federal funding strikes the Triangle’s acclaimed research complex
Published July 23, 2025
Fuqua Insights Podcast
Fuqua Insights Podcast: What Happens to Innovation If Research Funding Gets Cut?
Published July 9, 2025
Just Security
The Trump Administration’s Multi-Front Assault on Federal Research Funding
Published May 29, 2025
Radio Davos
“Trillions of dollars added to the economy” - Google’s chief economist on the macro impact of AI
Published April 14, 2025
Harvard Gazette
Harvard won’t comply with demands from Trump administration
Published April 9, 2025
Duke Fuqua Insights
How A Wartime Program to Support U.S. Troops Fueled Decades of Medical Research
Published March 31, 2025
New York Times
Trump’s Science Policies Pose Long-Term Risk, Economists Warn
Published March 14, 2025
Harvard Gazette
U.S. innovation ecosystem is envy of world. Here’s how it got started.
Published October 9, 2024
UN International Labour Organization
Minimizing the negative effects of AI-induced technological unemployment
Published June 11, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
The Economics of AI and the Impending Robot Takeover, Part I
Published March 8, 2024
Entrepreneur Magazine
Small, Local Businesses Have a Competitive Advantage Over the Amazons and Ubers of the World, According to a New Report
Published February 12, 2024
American Enterprise Institute
To Understand AI Adoption, Focus on the Interdependencies
Published December 20, 2023
The Economist
A short history of tractors in English: What the tractor and the horse tell you about generative AI
Published August 30, 2023
Freakonomics Podcast
New Technologies Always Scare Us. Is A.I. Any Different?
Published February 9, 2023
Brookings Institution
How research universities are evolving to strengthen regional economies
Published December 15, 2022
Brookings Institution
Breaking down an $80 billion surge in place-based industrial policy
Published October 1, 2022
NBER Reporter
Crisis Innovation: Historical Evidence, Insights, and Open Questions
Published April 20, 2022
VoxEU
The hidden costs of securing innovation: The manifold impacts of compulsory invention secrecy
Published December 29, 2021
Mises Institute
America’s Wars Are Far More Costly than the Pentagon Admits
Published December 17, 2021
Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Exploring the impact of automation and new technologies on the future of U.S. workers and their families
Published March 15, 2021
American Enterprise Institute
Evaluating World War II-era crisis innovation: My long-read Q&A with Daniel P. Gross
Published February 5, 2021
Harvard Business Review (France)
La compétition est-elle un frein ou un moteur pour la créativité?
Published February 3, 2021
Cato Institute
Automation and the Fate of Young Workers: Evidence from Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century
Published January 21, 2021
American Enterprise Institute
The right and wrong lessons from ‘crisis innovation’ during the pandemic
Published December 3, 2020
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Wartime Innovation: Lessons From the Office of Scientific R&D
Published November 25, 2020
TechRepublic
AI automation promises to have a big, and not always positive, impact
Published November 9, 2020
American Enterprise Institute
What happened to female workers after telephone operator jobs went away?
Published October 13, 2020
American Enterprise Institute
Science research and the lessons of World War II
Published September 1, 2020
NBER Digest
World War II R&D Spending Catalyzed Post-War Innovation Hubs
Published June 15, 2020
AEIdeas
What can we learn from America’s big science research investment during World War II?
Published September 24, 2019
HBS Working Knowledge
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
Published January 20, 2019
VoxEU
Creativity under fire: The effects of competition on creative production
Published November 21, 2017
Inc.com
6 Ways to Create a Competitive Work Culture That's Team First (And Not Me First)