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Innovation and Economic Growth

Researchers today are trying to understand how information technology affects innovation, productivity, and economic growth while studying the impact of political and legal ground rules. Academics featured here are looking at the potential to create jobs and keep policymakers aware of emerging trends in technology.

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Innovation + Equality

Joshua Gans, Rotman School of Management, introduces his new book, co-authored with Andrew Leigh. Innovation + Equality: How to create a future that is more Star Trek than Terminator examines the relationship between having more equality and more innovation.

Joshua Gans

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February 18, 2020, Princeton, NJ

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February 27, 2020, Berkeley, CA

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Fact Sheets

Health Information Technology

“Health Information Technology” or Health IT encompasses a wide range of hardware and software products used by patients, doctors, pharmacies, hospitals, insurers or other participants in the healthcare ecosystem to process and store data and communications related to health care.

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Navigating Disruption: a Roadmap for Leaders

"It may be easier for companies to stay in silos, but that just makes them more vulnerable to disruption." — Joshua Gans, Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto

Joshua Gans
Fast Company
July 25, 2019

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Featured Article

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems often rely on human workers to classify content. The workers find tasks using on-demand labor platforms like Mechanical Turk, receiving low wages and no benefits; however, on-demand work platforms enable many disadvantaged workers to earn income.

By: Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri

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