John Van Reenen

Ronald Coase School Professor LSE & MIT Digital Fellow IDE. OBE. POID Director. Jansson Award winner. Fellow of British Academy & Econometric Society

[John Van Reenen @johnvanreenen]

My new book with @ufukakcigit on innovation available at My new book with @ufukakcigit on innovation available at https://t.co/A8BAFNaBMm and all good bookshops near you! and all good bookshops near you!

[Romesh Vaitilingam @econromesh]

Technological progress can be fostered through long-run investments in R&D, education & national security, @voxeu evidence from two centuries of patent data & leverages filings in multiple patent offices, @johnvanreenen & colleagues

https://t.co/zFVkFE0SZt

[Richard Jones @RichardALJones]

A good FT piece from Martin Wolf arguing, rightly imv, that at root of UK's political woes is a 20 yr long slowdown in productivity growth
"a good economy — one with widely shared economic growth — is a necessary condition for political stability in a liberal democracy"...

[Programme on Innovation and Diffusion @POID_LSE]

Philippe Aghion, Celine Antonin, Luc Paluskiewicz, David Stromberg @xueping_sun Raphael Wargon & Karoline Westin examine how US restrictions under the China Initiative affected the volume, quality and direction of Chinese research.

Read: https://t.co/9j9yqclVQL

[Programme on Innovation and Diffusion @POID_LSE]

Measuring national technological trajectories using 200 years of international patent data
By @a_bergeaud @ruveyda_gozen & @johnvanreenen
via @voxeu
https://t.co/0zLkM5IZ25

[John Van Reenen @johnvanreenen]

Enough negativity! Underlying UK productivity is stronger than thought and policy has helped https://t.co/xafeAarlc6

[Romesh Vaitilingam @econromesh]

Philippe Aghion: explaining sustained growth through creative destruction - @johnvanreenen @CEP_LSE

https://t.co/fgIo5mx7RI

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

Ray of hope? The rise of solar energy in China

Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, Robin Burgess, Dávid László, Pol Simpson, @johnvanreenen & Yifan Wang outlined their research on China's green industrial policy (@LSEEcon @LSEnews @STICERD_LSE @The_IGC): https://t.co/74e679xLwQ

[The Innovation and Diffusion Podcast @POID_cast]

✨ March-special episode is out! ✨Our guest is @landais_camille (LSE) and we talked about his academic journey, family economics, gender inequality, child penalty, gender roles and more. Enjoy! 🥳 @CEP_LSE @POID_LSE @johnvanreenen @ruveyda_gozen #econtwitter

[VoxEU @voxeu]

Measuring national technological trajectories using 200 years of international patent data
Antonin Bergeaud @a_bergeaud @HECParis @CEP_LSE, Ruveyda Nur Gozen @ruveyda_gozen @LSEEcon, John Van Reenen @johnvanreenen @LSEEcon @MIT
https://t.co/2MReL4YPAa

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

Ray of hope? The rise of solar energy in China

Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, Robin Burgess, Dávid László, Pol Simpson, @johnvanreenen & Yifan Wang outlined their research on China's green industrial policy (@LSEEcon @LSEnews @STICERD_LSE @The_IGC): https://t.co/74e679xLwQ

[VoxEU @voxeu]

Ray of hope? The rise of solar energy in China
Ignacio Banares Sanchez, Robin Burgess, Dávid László, Pol Simpson, @johnvanreenen, Yifan Wang @LSEnews @LSEEcon
https://t.co/753tRdgb0Z

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 Ray of hope? The rise of solar energy in China

Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, Robin Burgess, Dávid László, Pol Simpson, @johnvanreenen & Yifan Wang outline their research on China's green industrial policy (@LSEEcon @LSEnews @STICERD_LSE @The_IGC): https://t.co/74e679xLwQ

[NBER @nberpubs]

Chinese local industrial policy subsidies were responsible for 40 to 50 percent of the fall in prices, and the growth in innovation and output since 2006 in the Chinese solar industry, from Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, Robin Burgess, Dávid László, Pol Simpson, @johnvanreenen, and Yifan Wang https://t.co/FLZHEZTjqF

[The Innovation and Diffusion Podcast @POID_cast]

🌟Our new episode is out! Our guest is @BaslandzeSalome from @AtlantaFed and we talked about her academic journey, product vs process innovations, firm strategy and growth, political connections, and more! Enjoy🥳 @POID_LSE @CEP_LSE @johnvanreenen @ruveyda_gozen

[NBER @nberpubs]

Using 200 years of patent data to describe the rise of the US innovation machine. Innovation drivers are R&D, education, and defense spending, from @a_bergeaud, @ruveyda_gozen, and @johnvanreenen https://t.co/EhQWyRnWl7

[Programme on Innovation and Diffusion @POID_LSE]

New #POIDWorkingPaper "When Trade Drives Markup Divergence: An application to auto markets" by Agnes Norris Keiller, @timoberm, @AndreasTeichgr, and @johnvanreenen https://t.co/6xYYRqU1Hj

[The Innovation and Diffusion Podcast @POID_cast]

🌟The new episode is out! Our guest is @ThomasPHI2 and we talked about his academic journey from physics to economics, his book "The Great Reversal", superstar firms, competition, Europe vs US, and more. Enjoy!🥳@POID_LSE @CEP_LSE @johnvanreenen @ruveyda_gozen #econtwitter

[Programme on Innovation and Diffusion @POID_LSE]

"Management matters. But only when the market rewards it."
Read the latest @vox_dev article by @I_Am_NickBloom, @leoiacovone, @mariana_ppl11, and @johnvanreenen
https://t.co/M8s2RhTkGi

[John Van Reenen @johnvanreenen]

Great job opportunity to work with me and @POID_LSE team at @LSEEcon @CEP_lse. Apply now! @https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/6939/0/462693/15539/research-assistant-poid

[Raffaella Sadun @raffasadun]

🚨Conference Alert🚨

The Empirical Management Conference will take place at Stanford University from May 27to May 29 2026.

Please submit your papers by January 18th!

https://t.co/RHnbsBzwx7