Research

• Representation Is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity

  Timothy Simcoe, et al.
  
  New research showing that a supportive organizational culture, not just representation, is necessary for increasing diversity in an organization's leadership. Read More →

• Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey

  Kristina McElheran et al.
  
  A new survey module intended to complement and expand research on the causes and consequences of advanced technology adoption by analyzing the 2018 Annual Business Survey. Read More →

• Twisting the Demand Curve: Digitalization and the Older Workforce

  Kristina McElheran et al.
  
  New research exploring the age-related effects of firms' software investments on employee wages. Read More →

• Crisis Innovation

  Tania Babina, Asaf Bernstein, and Filippo Mezzanotti
  
  New research on the effect of the Great Depression on patenting and the role of financial crises as both destructive and creative forces for innovation. Read More →

Commentary

• Unlocking Frontier Technology: The Policy Challenge of the Digital Economy

  James Bessen writing for The Innovation Frontier Project at the Progressive Policy Institute on policy implications of large-scale IT investment leading to declining competition and increasing inequality.

• Patent System Often Stifles the Innovation It Was Designed to Encourage

  Michael Meurer and Janet Freilich in The Conversation offering suggestions for improving the patent system.

• Robot Census: Gathering Data to Improve Policymaking on New Technologies

  Robert Seamans on Brookings.edu on the need for a "robot census."