By David Autor, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons, Bryan Seegmiller
Technological change transforms economies and labor markets, reshaping the types of jobs that are available, the wages they pay, and the skills they require.
By Filippo Mezzanotti and Timothy Simcoe
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.
Timothy Simcoe, TPRI Faculty Director, quoted in the MIT Sloan Management Review, June 28, 2023.
James Bessen, TPRI Executive Director’s, new book featured in Politics Today, March 6, 2023.
James Bessen’s OpEd article ‘Technology Is Not Failing—It is transforming the Economy” in The Nikkei, January 20, 2023, and in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Forum Network, January 24, 2023.
James Bessen’s The New Goliaths book discussed in ProMarket, November 15, 2022.
By Felix Poege
IG Farben used to be the world’s largest chemical company and a major innovator – until it was broken up in one of the largest antitrust events in history.
James Bessen’s research cited in “Comment les BigTech étouffent l’innovation” article in Up Magazine, May 24, 2022.