New Things Under the Sun is a living literature review on social science research related to innovation. Most posts are a few thousand words synthesizing 3-10 recent academic studies in service of making a narrow argument about innovation. The website is dynamic: I update it as the relevant academic literature evolves.
Launched in 2019, the associated (free) newsletter, What’s New Under the Sun, has more than 10,000 subscribers. It was originally supported by grants from Emergent Ventures, the Institute for Progress, and Open Philanthropy, but since November 2022 this project is part of my official job duties at Open Philanthropy. There is also an associated podcast.
Some popular entries:
- Science is getting harder
- An example of successful innovation by distributed teams: academia
- Entrepreneurship is contagious
- Are technologies inevitable?
- Remote work and the future of innovation
- What if we could automate invention?
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