It is well-known that firms commonly use “pay secrecy rules and practices” — contracts and internal rules prohibiting or strongly discouraging employees from disclosing their wages to coworkers.
Economists generally view innovation as the most significant driver of long-run productivity growth. In their new working paper, Filippo Mezzanotti and Tim Simcoe study how firms capture the benefits of innovation using survey data collected by the US Census between 2008 and 2015.
James Bessen, TPRI Executive Director’s, new article “How Software Stifles Competition and Innovation” in Communications of the ACM, Volume 66, Issue 10, October 2023 pp 34–36.
Timothy Simcoe, TPRI Faculty Director and Filippo Mezzanotti’s research cited in Kellogg Insight, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, August 3, 2023.
Rena Conti, TPRI’s Faculty Director will lead the Opportunities for Biotechnology to Improve Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Resiliency pilot project (one of six pilot projects) in the National Network for Critical Technology Assessment.The project will systematically assess vulnerabilities in the supply chain of essential medicines and identify opportunities to improve supply chain resiliency. As part of […]