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.
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.
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.
Manufacturing Technologies
Production, infrastructure, and industrial systems
Examines how technological knowledge becomes productive capability through manufacturing systems and the institutions that sustain them.
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.
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.
Across the programs