Innovation
Thoughts on AI, deep tech and data — plus weekly reads from the innovation and technology management literature.
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Weekly Reads - Oct 2
Destabilization and consolidation: Conceptualizing, measuring, and validating the dual characteristics of technology - Technology can be categorized as either competence-enhancing or competence-destroying. This paper shows that a technology can be both at the same time. Digital photography, for example, consolidated electrical technology and disrupted film…
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Weekly Reads - Sept 21
Delivering a difference - In Science careers, the author talks about how he transitioned from being a virologist to a mailman. This article really hit me hard as it forced me to reflect on the value I provide to society. Last week, I was arguing…
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Weekly Reads - Sept 14
I normally post on my blog every Friday but the last Friday was a holiday here in Catalonia so I decided to take a break. It was also my birthday week so I wanted to take the time to reflect too on my life and…
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Weekly Reads - Sept 4
On democracy - The current issue of Science has a special section dedicated to democracy Articles cover a wide range of topics including immigration, inequality and activism. Just last week, Economist also had a plot showing the increasing support towards autocrats by people in weaker…
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Weekly Reads - Aug 31
Being Extraordinary: How CEOs’ Uncommon Names Explain Strategic Distinctiveness - Reminds me of this episode on Freakonomics exploring how names can influence the career paths that people take (like people named Dennis become dentists). In a similar vein, CEOs with uncommon names pursue uncommon strategies…
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Weekly Reads - Aug 21
Government royalties on sales of biomedical products developed with substantial public funding - The pharma industry has faced a lot of criticisms due to the increasing drug prices and privatization of research funded by taxpayer money. This paper proposes how royalties can be a better…
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Technology Management Literature (2019-)
I wanted to get updated with the latest trends in the technology management literature. To do this, I conducted a bibliometric review of the publications in the top innovation and general management journals. Journals Analyzed I searched the Web of Science for articles published from…
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Weekly Reads - Aug 14
Reviewing the field of external knowledge search for innovation: theoretical underpinnings and future (re-)search directions - a review of how firms search for innovation outside. They introduce the term decoupled search which happens when the search process involves an assistant. Charting a Path between Firm‐Specific…
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Weekly Reads - August 4
The Transformation of the Innovation Process: How Digital Tools are Changing Work, Collaboration, and Organizations in New Product Development - digital tools "not only do they affect output and process efficiency, but they also increase depth and breadth of the work of individual innovators, they…
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On Moving
The role of immigration in innovation has gotten a lot of attention this week (ex. from In the Pipeline , Brookings ). The piece that resonated a lot to me is this editorial introducing the special issue of Research Policy on immigration. The authors introduced…
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