Past and Current Funders

TPRI receives generous financial support from corporations, foundations, and other organizations that is vital to our ongoing work and continued success.

Our current supporters include:

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Charles Koch Foundation
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Google.org
Individual contributors
Innovators Network Foundation
Schmidt Futures

In the News

The Barcode Engineered Its Own Downfall

Timothy Simcoe, TPRI Faculty Director, quoted in The Atlantic, January 11, 2024.

How rock-bottom prices drive shortages of generic drugs used in hospitals

Rena Conti, TPRI Faculty Director, quoted in NPR, December 28, 2023.

AI and the workforce

James Bessen, TPRI Executive Director, provided testimony before the House of Commons of Canada HUMA Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities about AI and the workforce on November 20, 2023.

What history tells us to expect about the future of AI and automation

James Bessen, TPRI Executive Director, was interviewed and his research was cited in “What history tells us to expect about the future of AI and automation”, Charter Works, November 12, 2023.