Innovation
Thoughts on AI, deep tech and data — plus weekly reads from the innovation and technology management literature.
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Weekly Reads - Dec 11
In Silico documentary - Nature featured this documentary on the fall of the Human Brain Project. I still haven't watched it but this seems to be an interesting view on the politics behind science. Exploring the dynamics of novelty production through exaptation: a historical analysis…
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Weekly Reads - Dec 4
Postdoc challenges - For a few weeks now, Nature has been talking about the issues that postdocs have been facing. As a postdoc myself, I can relate to the issues of uncertainty about the future. Despite this, I have been lucky to find a position…
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Weekly Reads - Nov 27
Bridging the gap between invention and innovation: Increasing success rates in publicly and industry-funded clinical trials - a study on the role of PI's expertise on the success of clinical trials. Fascinating that they find that broad experience across multiple disease fields reduce success rates…
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Weekly Reads - Nov 20
The Emergence of New Knowledge: The Case of Zero‐Reference Patents - when we think of science, we talk about standing on the shoulder of giants. Apparently, there are patents that are just so pioneering that they do not reference previous patents. Engineering Serendipity: When Does…
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Weekly Reads - Nov 13
Do policy makers take grants for granted? The efficacy of public sponsorship for innovative entrepreneurship - Study finds that while public grants may help in securing further private investment capital, they do not help with revenue over time. What matters more for entrepreneurship success? A…
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Weekly Reads - Nov 6
What makes dynamic strategic problems difficult? Evidence from an experimental study - an experimental study showing that "people do poorly even in this complete information condition, and importantly, they show limited improvement compared to the more complex conditions that require complex learning." Behavioral Visibility: A…
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The Magic of Web Scraping
A skill that is useful for many types of jobs is web scraping. It is useful especially if the data you want to collect is available online but is spread across different pages. Then, instead of just copy and pasting the information one by one…
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Weekly Reads - Oct 23
A (Re)view of the Philosophical Foundations of Strategic Management - explores four meta-paradigms around strategy research: contemporary positivism , contemporary realism, interpretive and critical postmodernism. I'll be honest, I could only wrap my head around the first and second approach partly. Social selectivity in aging…
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Innovation in Pharma R&D
The second study from my PhD entitled Innovation in Pharmaceutical R&D: Mapping the Research Landscape is out in the journal Scientometrics. It is open access. So, for anyone who is interested in carrying out management and innovation studies on the pharmaceutical industry, it would be…
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Weekly Reads - Oct 10
Scientific process as red tape - A blog post about how, perhaps, for many researchers, the scientific process is merely an annoyance to get to the results that they have already envisioned beforehand. They already know the truth that they want to come out from…
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