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How about the notion that smarts determine life success? That idea too has come under assault from recent research. A recent paper by economists Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, and John... Read more...
16 December 2017
Article by Christian Helmers and Henry Overman Big scientific research facilities like the UK’s Diamond Light Source, a third generation synchrotron (circular particle accelerator), benefit scien... Read more...
07 November 2017
Article by V. Bhaskar, Robin Linacre and Stephen Machin Like many other consumer transactions, the buying and selling of drugs are increasingly moving online. This is one very visible dimension of cybercrim... Read more...
06 November 2017
R&D tax relief encourages investment in research and development across the economy, according to a recently published study by the London School of Economics (LSE). Researchers from the LSE’s Centre... Read more...
02 October 2017
One of the leading authorities on the subject today is Stephen Machin, director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He has analysed London Metropolitan police data over th... Read more...
30 September 2017
A conversation with MIT’s John Van Reenen When we talk about innovators, we normally talk about how someone becomes one—not when. We talk about the success or failure of their experiments, produ... Read more...
16 December 2016
As the EU referendum draws closer, our expert panel answers a question from one of our readers about the potential effect on small businesses' intellectual property. What would Brexit mean for my business's intellectual... Read more...
18 May 2016
... Do we need a different way to spur innovation and disseminate new technologies quickly around the world? Are patents, which reward inventors by providing them with a government-guaranteed monopoly over their inventio... Read more...
12 April 2016
Article by Iain M. Cockburn, Jean O. Lanjouw and Mark Schankerman Patented pharmaceuticals diffuse across international borders slowly, and sometimes not at all. This column analyses the effect of patent protection and ... Read more...
26 November 2014
22 November 2014
Professor Christopher Pissarides among those calling for establishing more effective policies in fighting drug use. This article was published online by Yahoo! Mexico on August 25, 2014 Link to article here See al... Read more...
25 August 2014
Another report, published by the London School of Economics and backed by Nick Clegg, stated that our strategy for dealing with drugs ''can no longer be justified''. It's not just statistics that point towards the need f... Read more...
04 July 2014
"We owe it to the 44 million people living with dementia across the world to find new treatments for this cruel condition. But with the latest research from the London School of Economics now showing that a treatmen... Read more...
19 June 2014
Christopher Pissarides and other Nobel prize winners among signatories of a new academic report on global anti-drugs policies urging the UN to adopt different policies. This article was published online by Reuters on ... Read more...
06 May 2014