Matt Clancy
Runs Open Philanthropy’s Innovation Policy program. Creator of newthingsunderthesun.com, a living literature review about innovation. Website: mattsclancy.com.
- It’s a debate between @jdworkin.bsky.social and @stuartbuck.bsky.social on the value of replicating research!
- And in case you missed it, some more thoughts from Jordan on the ways replication is underrated:
- Are you a PhD student interested in the economics of innovation? The Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Online short course, hosted by IFP, is back for the third time! ifp.org/economics-of...
- The course runs from early February through late March. Each week is an interactive zoom lecture from a different expert in the relevant field, plus a meeting with a small group of other students to discuss assigned readings.
- Schedule: 1. Introduction to the economics of Idea, Ben Jones 2. Idea-based models of economic growth, Chad Jones 3. The supply of Innovators, Ina Ganguli 4. Open Science as an Economic Institution, Pierre Azoulay 5. The Direction of Science, Kyle Myers
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View full threadPS - for the interested folks out there who are not PhD students or academics, this course isn’t designed for you. Instead, may I recommend the IFP metascience 101 podcast series! ifp.org/the-metascie...
- Reposted by Matt ClancyExcited to share I'm joining @openphil.bsky.social under @mattsclancy.bsky.social as the housing program officer for the Abundance & Growth Fund! Launching Niskanen's housing team has been a blast, & I'll remain a Senior Fellow with them But I'm thrilled to start supporting housers everywhere!
- Reposted by Matt Clancy🔎 Patent citations are everywhere in innovation research. But do they really trace how ideas spill over between inventors—or are we mistaking legal paperwork for knowledge flows? 🧐 New on #ThePatentist: www.thepatentist.com/p/patent-cit... #patents #innovation #spillovers
- Reposted by Matt ClancyExcellent retrospective approach to a timely prospective question.
- New research by Pierre Azoulay, Danielle Li, Bhaven Sampat and me. Earlier this year, the President’s budget proposed a 40% cut to the budget of the NIH. This motivated us to ask: what if the NIH had been 40% smaller?
- We have the real priority scores for all NIH grants made over 1980-2007. Since NIH mostly funds research by working down these priority scores until the budget runs out, we can identify the grants that would probably have been cut with a smaller budget.
- Would anyone miss the research funded by these at-risk grants? To help assess that, we link these at-risk grants to drugs, focusing on all 557 FDA approvals for new molecular entities approved in the 21st century.
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View full threadYou can read the full paper here. It’s short and I think pretty transparent! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Matt ClancyIf you're a thinker or do-er in the housing space and you haven't subscribed to @michaelwiebe.bsky.social's substack, you're doing it wrong! It's a living urban econ lit review, inspired by @mattsclancy.bsky.social's New Things Under the Sun. Great stuff! Here's an example ⤵️.
- Reposted by Matt ClancyNice article on returns to R&D in MIT Tech Review, ft. our own @mattsclancy.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/17/...
- Reposted by Matt ClancyDeadline to apply to these positions is today! Big opportunity to accelerate growth and progress in housing, energy, clinical trials, and more.
- The Abundance and Growth Fund at Open Philanthropy is hiring! We’re looking for 2-4 people to help expand this new $120+ million program to accelerate economic growth and reduce the cost of living through strategic grantmaking and research. (1/4) www.openphilanthropy.org/research/ann...
- Reposted by Matt ClancyPODCAST | Remote working and the future of cities 🎙️ @andrewcities.bsky.social is joined by @mattsclancy.bsky.social to discuss hybrid working, productivity, cities and the future of work. Listen to the pod 🎧👇
- The Abundance and Growth Fund at Open Philanthropy is hiring! We’re looking for 2-4 people to help expand this new $120+ million program to accelerate economic growth and reduce the cost of living through strategic grantmaking and research. (1/4) www.openphilanthropy.org/research/ann...
- We’re interested in putting together a team with expertise across many different possible areas: housing policy, energy, infrastructure, state capacity, healthcare and clinical trials, economic dynamism, and more. (2/4)
- There are two kinds of position posted, which we’re calling specialists (who will focus on 1-2 of the above areas) and generalists (who will have a broader portfolio). Full job descriptions below. (3/4) Specialist: shorturl.at/yF9Hq Generalist: shorturl.at/aWGnm
- Apply by July 27 for full consideration! Know someone who might be a good fit? Earn $5k if your referral results in a hire: shorturl.at/S3N8j (4/4)
- Reposted by Matt ClancyEste es el futuro.
- Reposted by Matt ClancyEnter the 1st pop‑up journal, true living R&D ROI lab for Zvi Griliches: revisiting his seminal question, catalyzing his legacy in real‑time policy, and promising impact no posthumous Econ Nobel (which he more than deserved!) ever could. Arguably the wisest academic publishing initiative in decades.
- Reposted by Matt ClancySuch a clever idea. You could imagine its application to all sorts of wicked problems…
- Reposted by Matt ClancyThis is a really cool kind of initiative: a pop-up journal on the returns to public R&D: popupjournal.com. Pop-up journals to coordinate research on questions that matter!
- Reposted by Matt ClancyInteresting initiative!
- Reposted by Matt ClancyLove this - need more innovation in academic publishing
- Reposted by Matt ClancyVery excited to join with Open Philanthropy on an all-out sprint to answer some of the thorniest practical questions in economics. First question: What return do we get when we invest in R&D?
- Reposted by Matt ClancyGood luck with this! An interesting innovation in the organization of the study of innovation.
- Reposted by Matt Clancyinteresting idea. we need more innovation in the research publication/curation space.
- Reposted by Matt ClancyInteresting metascience experiment: a pop-up journal! Read @mattsclancy.bsky.social's thread for details and how to apply.
- Reposted by Matt ClancyVery cool!
- What’s the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.
- Today, we’re inviting organizations to bid on a five-year contract to organize and run the Pop-Up Journal on the returns to public R&D: popupjournal.com The journal will publish several issues and then sunset after five years.
- Each issue seeks to make progress on one question: what’s the ROI on public funding for R&D? To that end, it will be one home for new research on the topic. But it will do more as well.
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View full threadWe are lucky to be supported in this initiative by a fantastic advisory board that will help us select the winning bid for this journal and select the big questions for future Pop-Up Journals: Matt Clancy Doug Elmendorf Ted Gayer Danny Goroff Jonathan Haskel Margaret Levi Paul Niehaus Heidi Williams
- Reposted by Matt Clancy✴️ REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS! ✴️ @navigation.org is seeking bold projects at the intersection of AI and Open Science. We support innovative applications that make science more transparent, efficient, and trustworthy. Deadline: July 15, 2025. os.nav.fund/ai-for-os/ #openscience #AIforScience
- Reposted by Matt ClancyI've been told the US Patent and Trademark Office is expected to terminate its PatentsView contract, meaning all the datasets and disambiguation available at patentsview.org will likely go offline March 28. Associated github repository might also go offline.
- Reposted by Matt ClancyCool blogpost by @mattsclancy.bsky.social on (US) Government R&D spending. tldr: It is a good thing. #science4policy mattsclancy.substack.com/p/frequently...
- Reposted by Matt ClancyNew blog post: Why should we have to pay for projects in foreign countries with our tax dollars? blog.jacobtrefethen.com/generosity/
- Reposted by Matt ClancyAfter being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵
- Reposted by Matt ClancyGraduate admissions being put on hold because of the chaos...
- I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Reposted by Matt ClancyThis is very much worth a careful read. It strikes a very good balance of what’s good and what could be better. “Science is done by people” is an under-appreciated principle
