Research agenda

Consequential questions at the intersection of technology and society.

Five programs examine technological change from different institutional settings while tracing the relationships that connect them.

01

Innovation and Economics

Innovation, markets, and economic change

Examines how economic institutions shape technological development and how innovation, in turn, reorganizes markets and productive activity.

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02

AI, Data, and Public Policy

AI, data, and public governance

Examines how AI develops through markets and institutions, and how its use changes economic activity, public authority, and social life.

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03

Manufacturing Technologies

Production, infrastructure, and industrial systems

Examines how technological knowledge becomes productive capability through manufacturing systems and the institutions that sustain them.

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04

Military Technologies

Military technology, institutions, and security

Examines how military organizations turn technical systems into operational capability and how new technologies reshape military organization and strategy.

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05

Regulation and Society

Technology governance, institutions, and public authority

Examines how governance shapes technological development and how technological change transforms regulatory institutions and public authority.

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Cross-cutting questions.

AuthorityHow technological change redistributes decision-making power across institutions.
KnowledgeHow evidence and expertise shape what institutions can know about technological systems and their consequences.
CapabilityHow infrastructure and institutions make technological systems durable and usable.
DistributionHow technological change reallocates benefits, risks, and opportunities.
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