Matthew Yglesias I'm dubious that "something's gone wrong". I'm working on a paper with Frank van der Wouden where we find that tech change is moving so fast now, inventors can't keep up with the frontier. Science is a bit different from tech, but the same story should apply.

In 20th century, individual inventors had hard time catching up to the advancement of the field. Prediction: their high impact work happens early and team size grows. Both are confirmed with the data. We need to invest more to younger innovators. Christopher Esposito Frank van der Wouden

Interested in the organization of invention? My fantastic co-author Christopher Esposito is going to present our new paper on how increases in the rate of invention has spurred knowledge obsolescence, driving changes in how we organize invention #AOM2022 Academy of Management AOM TIM Division STR - Strategic Management Division

Chris Christopher Esposito is about to present our new paper today. If you are at #AOM2022 and interested in #innovation and #collaboration, you want to check it out. We love to hear your feedback, ideas and comments! STR - Strategic Management Division AOM TIM Division Academy of Management

My excellent co-author Christopher Esposito is presenting our new work on the speed of knowledge and the way we organize invention. Sign up if you are interested! We have cool findings and conclusions!

Stoked to read this excellent post by Matt Clancy, on how #teams of #knowledge producers are organized spatially. As always, Matt does a superb job linking different literature. I am very happy to see my own work mentioned, and that of my friend & collaborator Christopher Esposito.

The inventor gender gap in particpation in China has decreased of recent. This, however, has not prevented #inventor collaboration across the gender divide from rising. And there are huge variations by city. Z. Zhang & Frank van der Wouden on #women inventors in #China at #GeoInno2024

Very cool! Kellogg Insight (Kellogg School) featured our Research Policy study. People learn less when #collaborating across distance. How does this relate to work-from-home #wfh? Together with hyejin youn. The University of Hong Kong Hkufb HKU Geography insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/could-…

When #inventors gain experience, they fall behind the #knowledge frontier of their field & are less likely to produce high-impact #patents. ... but when they #collaborate, this is reversed! Presenting today, with Christopher Esposito at ICSSI - The University of Hong Kong UCLA Anderson School of Management