Innovation and Tech Policy

Innovation and Tech Policy

Researchers at the Duke ISP Lab study how policy institutions shape the scale, direction, speed, and public value of innovation. This research examines (i) the design of innovation policy “plumbing,” such as how R&D is financed and governed, (ii) targeted incentive and regulatory tools that aim to accelerate socially valuable technologies, and (iii) strategic interaction among governments when innovation generates global public goods. A common theme is connecting contemporary policy choices to longer-run innovation dynamics, up to understanding how institutional choices and geopolitics have shaped the performance of the national innovation ecosystem.

Innovation and Tech Policy

2026

Gartenberg, Claudine, Sharique Hasan, Alex Murray, and Lamar Pierce. “More Versus Better: Artificial Intelligence, Incentives, and the Emerging Crisis in Peer Review.” Organization Science (2026).

2025

Chatterji, Aaron K. and Fiona Murray. “How Geopolitics Is Changing the Economics of Innovation.” Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy (forthcoming).

Azoulay, Pierre, Daniel P. Gross, and Bhaven N. Sampat. “Indirect Cost Recovery in US Innovation Policy: History, Evidence, and Avenues for Reform.” Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy (forthcoming).

2024

Ridley, David B., Agustín Martín Lasanta, Ffion Storer Jones, and Sarah K. Ridley. “European priority review vouchers for neglected disease product development.” BMJ Global Health 9, no. 1 (2024).

2023

Gross, Daniel P. and Bhaven N. Sampat. “The World War II crisis innovation model: What was it, and where does it apply?” Research Policy 52, no. 9 (2023): 104845.

Gross, Daniel P. “The hidden costs of securing innovation: The manifold impacts of compulsory invention secrecy.” Management Science 69, no. 4 (2023): 2318-2338.

Gross, Daniel P. and Bhaven N. Sampat. “America, jump-started: World War II R&D and the takeoff of the US innovation system.” American Economic Review 113, no. 12 (2023): 3323-3356.

2022

Gross, Daniel P. and Bhaven N. Sampat. “Crisis innovation policy from World War II to COVID-19.” Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy 1, no. 1 (2022): 135-181.

2021

Gross, Daniel P. and Bhaven N. Sampat. “The economics of crisis innovation policy: A historical perspective.” In AEA Papers and Proceedings, vol. 111 (2021): 346-350.

Ridley, David B., Pranav Ganapathy, and Hannah E. Kettler. “​US Tropical Disease Priority Review Vouchers: Lessons In Promoting Drug Development And Access: Article examines infectious disease drug and vaccine development.” Health Affairs 40, no. 8 (2021): 1243-1251.

2019

Arora, Ashish, Sharon Belenzon, and Andrea Patacconi. “A theory of the US innovation ecosystem: Evolution and the social value of diversity.” Industrial and Corporate Change 28, no. 2 (2019): 289-307

2018

Chatterji, Aaron K. “Innovation and American K–12 education.” Innovation Policy and the Economy 18, no. 1 (2018): 27-51.

2017

Ridley, David B. “Priorities for the priority review voucher.” The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 96, no. 1 (2017): 14.

Ridley, David B., Jeffrey L. Moe, and Nick Hamon. “A voucher system to speed review could promote a new generation of insecticides to fight vector-borne diseases.” Health Affairs 36, no. 8 (2017): 1461-1468.

Kyle, Margaret K., David B. Ridley, and Su Zhang. “Strategic interaction among governments in the provision of a global public good.” Journal of Public Economics 156 (2017): 185-199.

2015

Arora, Ashish and Wesley M. Cohen. “Public support for technical advance: The role of firm size.” Industrial and Corporate Change 24, no. 4 (2015): 791-802.

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