Economics of Innovation

Focusing on understanding the context in which innovation is possible, and examining the role of innovation in growth and distribution.

Conference Session

Law and Innovation: Is Intellectual Property a Path to Progress

Featuring Giovanni Dosi, Mariana Mazzucato, and Barry Sookman

Apr 11, 2014 | 07:00—08:30

Paper

The Innovative Enterprise and the Developmental State: Toward an Economics of “Organizational Success”

By William Lazonick

Apr 2011

Paper

The Financialization of the US Corporation: What Has Been Lost, and How It Can Be Regained

By William Lazonick

Jun 2012

Conference Session

The Market or the State? Can Market Forces Deliver Innovation, Education, and Infrastructure

Featuring Philippe Aghion, William Janeway, and William Lazonick

Apr 9, 2011 | 05:25—07:00

Paper

Profits Without Prosperity: How Stock Buybacks Manipulate the Market, and Leave Most Americans Worse Off

By William Lazonick

Apr 2014

Grant

Financial Innovation and Central Banking in China: a Money View

Led by Luke Deer, Mike Beggs, Chris Jefferis , and Yu Yuxin

Conference Session

The Problem of the Predator State: Fostering Innovation While Facilitating Corporate Predation

Featuring Bill Black, James K. Galbraith, Michael Greenberger, and Sol Wisenberg

Apr 11, 2014 | 07:00—08:30

Conference Session

Is Innovation always a good thing?

Featuring Rob Johnson, Lisa D. Cook, Richard Nelson, and James Balsillie

Apr 9, 2014 | 08:00—09:45

Paper

Innovative Enterprise or Sweatshop Economics? In Search of Foundations of Economic Analysis

By William Lazonick

Oct 2015

Conference Session

Innovation: To What Purpose?

Featuring John Ralston Saul

Apr 9, 2014 | 02:15—04:00

Grant

Innovation Systems: Positive and Normative Perspectives

Led by Diego Comin

This research project explores the causes and consequences of the way countries innovate and the economic foundations for the government’s direct involvement in conducting innovation.

Conference Session

Innovation Systems

Featuring Li Daokui, William Janeway, Edward Jung, Mari Pangestu, and David Sainsbury

Apr 3, 2013 | 09:15—10:15

Grant

Innovation and the State: How Should Government Finance and Implement Innovation Policy?

Led by Rainer Kattel

Video

Innovation and the State

Featuring Dan Breznitz and Marshall Auerback

Jan 26, 2016

Conference Session

Innovation and Inequality: Cause or Cure

Featuring Steven Fazzari, Marlene Kim, Martin Schürz, and Lance Taylor

Apr 11, 2014 | 11:00—12:30