TPRI will hold its tenth annual IP Day conference on July 20, 2026. The conference will highlight new research relating to intellectual property, the economics of innovation, technology commercialization and litigation. IP Day panels focus on emerging research themes, from both a legal and economic perspective, with an emphasis on topics that are relevant to […]
James Bessen’s paper “Automation and Jobs: When Technology Boosts Employment,” was discussed in the Financial Times.
Christian Catalini draws lessons about adapting to AI from Bessen’s work on the industrial revolution
Greg Ip at the Wall Street Journal argues that although there is a lot of fear about AI currently destroying jobs, the evidence is not there. Supposedly vulnerable software employment is at a record high.
Two TPRI scholars, Kevin Outterson and James Bessen, were ranked in the top 2 percent of most highly cited social science researchers in 2024 for citations received over their careers. The annual listing is compiled by John Ionnidis at Stanford.
James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng have been honored with the Atkinson Prize, an award given every two years by the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) to authors of high-quality articles published in the Journal of Economic Inequality for their paper “Perpetuating wage inequality: evidence from salary history bans.” The article examines the effects […]
Jim Bessen, Felix Poege and Ronja Röttger’s article “Research: The Risks of Founding a Startup Near Big Companies”, Harvard Business Review, November 12, 2024.