Daniel P. Gross's guest appearances

Daniel P. Gross

The Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed

Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis

Elon Musk

Benedict Evans

Ben Thompson

Tyler Cowen

Alex Trembath

Scott Kupor

Deirdre McCloskey

Ryan Bourne

Sara Seager

Bryan Caplan

Alex Nowrasteh

Stephen Davies

Charles Fishman

Safi Bahcall

Brian McCullough

OwlTail

In response to the demands of World War II, America generated an impressive amount of innovation in a short time span. Policymakers look back on this record as a model to aspire to, claiming that we “need a new Manhattan Project” to tackle the looming crises of the present. So what lessons should we take away from World War II-era innovation policy? On today’s episode, I discuss this question with Daniel P. Gross.Daniel is an assistant professor at Duke's Fuqua School of Business, and he’s also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He’s the author of several papers examining innovation policy in the World War II era, the most recent of which is "Organizing Crisis Innovation: Lessons from World War II," which he co-authored along with Bhaven Sampat.

<p>In response to the demands of World War II, America generated an impressive amount of innovation in a short time span. Policymakers look back on this record as a model to aspire to, claiming that we “need a new Manhattan Project” to tackle the looming crises of the present. So what lessons should we take away from World War II-era innovation policy? On today’s episode, I discuss this question with Daniel P. Gross.</p><p>Daniel is an assistant professor at Duke's Fuqua School of Business, and he’s also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He’s the author of several papers examining innovation policy in the World War II era, the most recent of which is "<a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w27909" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Organizing Crisis Innovation: Lessons from World War II</a>," which he co-authored along with Bhaven Sampat.</p>

Daniel P. Gross: Lessons in crisis innovation from World War II