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Cook’s research shows the lack of diversity in economics is even more egregious than the profession’s harshest critics believed. What happens when your ability to analyze data results in unique economic insights? If you are Lisa Cook, who is this week’s guest on Masters in Business, you end up doing research for many of the … Economist Lisa Cook’s Groundbreaking Research, Invent Together

While the targets unquestionably suffer the most, denying people equal opportunities diminishes the finances of millions of Americans. Discrimination hurts just about everyone, not only its direct victims. New research shows that while the immediate targets of racism are unquestionably hurt the most, discrimination inflicts a staggering cost on the entire economy, reducing the wealth … Racism Impoverishes the Whole Economy, Invent Together

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dr. Lisa Cook, a professor in the department of economics and in international relations at Michigan State University. As the first Marshall Scholar from Spelman College, she received a second B.A. from Oxford University before earning her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as … Lisa Cook on Gender and Race in Economics (Podcast), Invent Together

A new coalition will work to change the status quo among U.S. patent holders, who are largely white males, and introduce more diversity in inventing and patenting, according to an announcement shared exclusively with Axios. Why it matters: The patent diversity gap limits opportunities for the majority of Americans and leaves the U.S. with less … New group aims to make patenting, inventing more diverse, Invent Together

Efforts to encourage innovation by women, underrepresented minorities and people from lower socioeconomic rungs will get a new push from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The agency aims to “expand the American innovation ecosystem” by pulling together venture capitalists, industry titans and educators to create a national strategy, Andrei Iancu, director of the patent … U.S. Patent Office Aims to Boost Innovation By Women, Minorities, Invent Together

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON, BYLINE: NPR. (SOUNDBITE OF DROP ELECTRIC SONG, “WAKING UP TO THE FIRE”) CARDIFF GARCIA, HOST: Hey, everyone. It’s Cardiff. This is THE INDICATOR FROM PLANET MONEY. Today I’m joined by an old friend of the show’s, economist Lisa Cook of Michigan State University, because Lisa has just released a study that offers new … The Inclusion Payoff, Invent Together

American women are making slow but steady progress when it comes to innovation and obtaining legal protection for their inventions, according to a new study by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The share of patents with at least one woman named as inventor was 22% by the end of 2019, up from 20.7% in … Women Inventors Make Progress but Still Lag Male Counterparts, Invent Together

The percentage of women inventors filing additional patents within five years of their first is on the rise. Data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office shows improvement in the patent field for women since the 1980s. Back then, only 28% of women filed another patent within five years of their first, compared with … Women Inventors are sticking with it, patent office says

If more Americans were empowered to identify as inventors and share their inventive ideas, how would our world be different? Because innovation drives our economy, this is a critically important question for all of us. In 2018, a landmark study about who patents inventions in America documented a startling reality, which is that many would-be … Finding The Lost Einsteins: How to Make Academic Inventing More Inclusive, Invent Together

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER, BYLINE: This is PLANET MONEY from NPR. KAREN DUFFIN, HOST: In the mid-’90s, there was this big new economic theory that was all the rage. It was an idea for how countries can produce unlimited economic growth, which is kind of the whole point of economics. You know, growth means less poverty, more … Patent Racism, Invent Together