Matt Clancy is a research fellow at Open Philanthropy and a senior fellow at The Institute for Progress, a think tank for accelerating scientific, technological, and industrial progress. He maintains New Things Under the Sun, a living literature review about innovation.
Our conversation with Matt gravitates around the state of knowledge of technological innovation. We talk about inputs to innovation, models of innovation, the discipline of Progress Studies, and ways to measure technological progress. We also cover the relationship between policy and innovation.
About and From Matt Clancy:
- Personal Website
- What’s New Under the Sun: What academia knows about innovation
- Are Technologies Inevitable?
- Matt’s dissertation
References and Recommendations:
- Institute for Progress
- Ned Gulley: Patterns of innovation, a web-based MATLAB programming contest
- Anton Howes
- William Nordhaus: Do Real-Output and Real-Wage Measures Capture Reality? The History of Lightning Suggests Not
- Tyler Cowen: Marginal Revolution
- Pop Culture Happy Hour Podcast
- George Elliot: Middlemarch
- Ursula K. Le Guin: Dispossessed
- Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley: Barriers to Bioweapons
Luminary Podcast:
Music:
- Music used in this podcast: Simplex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
- Chipper Doodle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0