Less than two weeks to go until the launch of this year's EPIP association 2022 conference on "Opening IP for a better world?" Cambridge University. Watch out for the release of the near-final (we hope) detailed session programme early next week!

1000 drones flying in fluid formation — the largest assemblage ever at Burning Man. Produced by Drift Robotics, it filled the sky with mesmerizing beauty.

the trolley problem, solved at last

New post! mattsclancy.substack.com/p/what-if-we-c…

When macroeconomists do causal inference.

Pleased to share our paper ‘Patent Transactions and the Use of Blockchain Technology’, presented at EPIP 2022 at the University of Cambridge. Thomas Gils and I claim that powering #patent registers with #blockchains could facilitate (global) patent trade. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

History of economics is no fancy dinner talk, no crossword puzzle, not for like or dislike. It's a scientific subfield that a discipline incapable of reflexivity has decided to stop teaching & publishing. The way it's being discussed by some economists here is just demeaning

love this Hilary Mantel explanation of what history actually is

When a startup inventor’s first patent is acquired by an an incumbent firm it has a negative effect on the productivity of the patent’s inventor. The inventor is granted 6.7 fewer patents over the next five years. Another dark side of acquisitions? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

*Car shopping with my wife* Her: “Why do you keep asking about what software they use at the dealership instead of about the car?” Me: “…Did you not read my vertical SaaS article?”

Can you please describe your methodology? My methodology:

Coming out soon! John Van Reenen Harvard University Press International hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…

The ultimate clustering standard errors paper just dropped: When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering? by some big names in the field :) academic.oup.com/qje/advance-ar…

Draaaaamaaaaa ;)

Wordle 490 3/6 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Interesting: only three people in the USA were qualified to hand-pack the parachutes for Apollo 15. Their expertise was so vital, they were not allowed to ride in the same car together for fear that a single auto accident could cripple the space program.

I often wonder how unprepared we are for deepfake technology

Ok we need so solve this debate😂 Do you agree with the original patent on the direction for rolling toilet paper? Leave your votes down below!⬇️

Daron Acemoglu has a new paper that argues that markup differences, externalities and other social considerations can distort the DICRECTION of innovation. Distortions are substantial in industrial automation, health care, and energy. nber.org/papers/w30922