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Kirk Doran is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Doran received his B.A. in Physics from Harvard University in 2002, his S.M. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 2002, and his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2008, where his dissertation won Princeton's labor economics dissertation award. Doran's research focuses on issues in labor economics, innovation economics, and international migration, with a particular focus on human capital complementarities. His work has examined the implications of large migrations of top scientists on the productivity and knowledge generation of their peers. Recent work has focused on the role of externalities, collaboration, and geographic distance in knowledge production, the impact of top prizes on the intellectual content of their recipient's work, and the impact of highly skilled immigrants on firms which randomly receive them. Professor Doran's research has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Journal of Human Resources, among others, and has been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Upjohn Institute, and the Kauffman Foundation.
Dr Joseph Henrich of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University has been awarded the 2023 Panmure House Prize for his research on how collective thinking drives cultural innovation. The prize will help enable the publishing of his third book.
Building on ideas developed in his fascinating book The Secret of Our Success, Dr Henrich will share his research into the ‘collective brain’ on 1 May at Panmure House. Both this book and The Weirdest People in the World are available to purchase from our shop.
The 2022 prize was awarded to Dr Aravind Ganesh from the University of Calgary. Dr Ganesh's research is titled: Developing a Free Market to Drive Potential Donor Engagement and Long-term Investment in Medical Research/Innovation
The inaugural Panmure House Prize was awarded in 2021 to a team based at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, led by Professor Rachelle C. Sampson.
Looking at US patents between 1980 and 2017, their project demonstrates that long-term-oriented firms – supported by government-funded R&D, stronger scientific orientation, a more centralised organisation and greater investment – are more likely to produce breakthrough innovations such as Dupont’s nylon or AT&T Bell Labs’ transistor.
Watch the results presentation, chaired by Professor Sir John Kay in July 2022, below.