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The Innovation and Diffusion Podcast

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The Innovation and Diffusion Podcast is a science podcast hosted by The Innovation and Diffusion Podcast. It has 25 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.

Our podcast aims to generate easily accessible and engaging academic discussions on innovation and diffusion. We interview the leading thinkers around the world on new technologies and the way they change our world and economy. Hosts: Ruveyda Gozen (@ruveyda_gozen) and John Van Reenen (@johnvanreenen)The Economic and Social Research Council funds this podcast through the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) at LSE.

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

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

3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

S02 E01: Financing Innovation with Sabrina Howell from NYU Stern

15

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

16

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

17

S1 E8: Power Dynamics, Elitism, and Innovations with Daron Acemoglu from MIT

18

S1 E7: Lost Talents, Inequality, and Innovations with Xavier Jaravel from LSE

19

S1 E6: Corporate Giants, Patent Trolls, and Litigation Wars with Naomi Lamoreaux from Yale University

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S1 E5: Production and Growth of Knowledge with Ben Jones from Northwestern University

21

S1 E4: Medical Innovations, Patents, and Exclusivities with Heidi Williams from Dartmouth College

22

S1 E3: Unorthodox Methodologies on Innovation with Petra Moser from NYU Stern

23

S1 E2: Science, Superstar Scientists, and Innovation with Pierre Azoulay from MIT

24

S1 E1: Economics of Creative Destruction with Ufuk Akcigit from the University of Chicago

25

S1 E0: What is the Innovation and Diffusion Podcast?

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