The Innovation and Diffusion Podcast

S3 E9: Transformative Entrepreneurs, Macroeconomy and Policy Making with Harun Alp (FED)

In this episode, our guest is Harun Alp from the FED and we talk about his academic journey, role models, subsistences versus transformative entrepreneurs, who becomes a

S3 E8: Space Race, Cold War, and Public R&D Policies with Alex Whalley from the University of Calgary

In this episode, our guest is Alexander T. Whalley from the University of Calgary and we talked about his academic journey, paper suggestions, large public R&D policies,

S3 E7: Industrialization, Diffusion of Technology, and Meiji Japan with Réka Juhász (British Columbia)

In this episode, our guest is Reka Juhasz from the University of British Columbia and we talked about her academic journey, favorite books and papers in economics, why so

S3 E6: Scientific Production, International Collaborations, and WW1 with Fabian Waldinger (University of Munich)

In this episode, our guest is Fabian Waldinger (University of Munich) and we talked about his research interests, scientific production and boycotts in the World War 1 er

S3 E5: Gender Inequality and Child Penalty with Camille Landais (LSE)

In this episode, our guest is Camille Landais (@landais_camille on X) from the London School of Economics and we talk about his academic journey, interests in family econ

S3 E4: Product vs Process Innovations, Firm Growth, and Political Connections with Salomé Baslandze (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)

In this episode, our guest is Salomé Baslandze from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and we talked about her academic journey, influential economists in her career, ne

S3 E3: The Great Reversal, Europe and the US with Thomas Philippon from NYU Stern

In this episode, our guest is Thomas Philippon who is a Professor of Finance at NYU Stern. We talked about his academic journey from Physics to Economics, influential eco

S3 E2: Culture and Economic Growth with Alberto Bisin from NYU

In this episode, our guest is Alberto Bisin, a Professor of Economics at NYU. We talked about his personal academic journey, the economics culture at the University of Ch

S3 E1: Nobel Prize Winners and Economics of Innovation with Fiona Murray from MIT

In this episode, our guest is Fiona Murray from MIT. We talked about her academic journey, publication processes, Nobel Prize winners in Economics, gender, security-drive

S2 E9: Diffusion of Innovation, Productivity, and Academia with Nick Bloom from Stanford University

In this episode, our guest is Nick Bloom from Stanford University! And we talked about academic production functions, diffusion of innovation, economic situation in the U

S2 E8: Science and Politics with Kyle Myers from Harvard Business School

In this episode, our guest is a young star economist: Kyle Myers from Harvard Business School! We talked about the current clash between the Trump administration and Harv

S2 E7: Capitalism without Capital, and Productivity Puzzles with Jonathan Haskel from Imperial College

In this episode, our guest is Jonathan Haskel from Imperial College and we talked about productivity puzzle in the UK, general productivity slowdown, intangible capital,

S2 E6: Inventors/Engineers, Directed Technical Change, and the British Industrial Revolution with Walker Hanlon from Northwestern University

In this episode, our guest is Walker Hanlon who is an Associate Professor in Economics at Northwestern University. We talked about if necessity is the mother of invention

S2 E5: Religion, Economic Growth, and the Protestant Ethic with Sascha Becker from the University of Warwick

In this episode, our guest is Sascha Becker from the University of Warwick, and we talk about religion, how it is related to economic growth, Max Weber's theory on the Pr

S2 E4: Join the Green Growth Movement! with Robin Burgess from the LSE

In this episode, our guest is Robin Burgess from the LSE and we talked about the direction that the Environmental Economics is taking, new datasets, approaches, tension b

S2 E3: Firms, Management Surveys, and Practices with Raffaella Sadun from HBS

Our guest is Raffaella Sadun from Harvard Business School and we talk about organisations, managerial culture and capital, competition, natural disaster managements, and

S2 E2: WW2, and Management as a Soft Technology with Michela Giorcelli from UCLA

In this episode, our guest is Michela Giorcelli who is an applied microeconomist and economic historian from UCLA. We talk about the evolution of managerial practices, ho

S02 E01: Financing Innovation with Sabrina Howell from NYU Stern

In this episode, our guest is Sabrina Howell who is a Professor of Finance at the NYU Stern. We talk about how to finance innovations, fintechs, venture capitalists, priv

S1 E10: More Inclusive, More Innovative! with Philippe Aghion from LSE and College de France

Our guest in this episode is Philippe Aghion! We talk about Marx, Schumpeter, creative destruction, capital accumulation, history, middle income countries, political econ

S1 E9: Taxation, Inequality, and Innovation with Stefanie Stantcheva from Harvard University

In this episode, our guest is Stefanie Stantcheva and we talked about taxation, incentives for inventors, history, slavery and wealth accumulation, zero-sum attitude towa