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New Things Under the Sun is a living literature review on social science research about innovation. Articles come in two flavors:
claims: a narrow claim about innovation based on a synthesis of academic papers
arguments: a broad claim about innovation based on a synthesis of claims
There are also index pages, which group claim articles into topics, and provide a short description of what each is about.
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New Things Under the Sun is created by Matt Clancy, research fellow at Open Philanthropy. You can learn more about this project on the about page.
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Limits to the universality of new discoveries
Let's get meta
A reason large firms conduct R&D at the same rate as small ones, despite (apparently) lower R&D productivity
The salience of local problems
Raise the cost of research, or reduce the rewards of it
Big firms do things differently
