Innovation almost always has positive connotations. We may associate it with technological development, but the reality is that innovation can refer to many other things: products, processes, services ...

Aspects of the research and practice paradigm known as the diffusion of innovations are applicable to the complex context of health care, for both explanatory and interventionist purposes. This ...

New scientific knowledge and innovation are often slow to disseminate. In other cases, providers rush into adopting what appears to be a clinically relevant innovation, based on a single clinical ...

New data from Arizona’s Universal Education Savings Account program has been released, and Mount Hot Take is already erupting. In a short paper published by the Brookings Institution, with the ...

Paper Authors: Çağatay Bircan (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development [EBRD]), Beata Javorcik (EBRD, University of Oxford, and Centre for Economic Policy Research), and Stefan Pauly ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is arguably one of the most significant technological innovations as it reshapes the way we think about work, organizing and competitions. As AI's role in organizing and ...

In 2017, the Stigler Center embarked on an ambitious project to reinvigorate the discussion of concentration and monopoly in the United States, starting with the conference Is There a Concentration ...

A few years ago, a new kind of AI called a diffusion model appeared. Today, it powers tools like Stable Diffusion and Runway Gen-2, turning text prompts into high-quality images and even short videos.

Debates about national scientific and technological power tend to center on which state first generates new-to-the-world breakthroughs (innovation capacity). This essay argues that assessments of ...

Systems change to address complex problems, including climate change, is hard to achieve. What little optimism remains to tackle such complex challenges is mostly placed in supranational schemes, such ...