Projects #Organization

We analyze how AI reshapes the investment, organization and outcome of scientific production. Using a corpus of both funded and unfunded proposals to a large international funding agency, as well as detailed budget information, we show that AI primarily has changed the inputs and organization (and not the output) of research, lowering the cost, enlarging the teams, and shifting resources from equipment to human capital. Link to pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27956

This OpEd highlights new large-scale evidence that foundational skills-especially communication, teamwork, and other soft skills-are strongly linked to faster learning, higher earnings, and better long-term career mobility. Find the article in Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2025/08/soft-skills-matter-now-more-than-ever-according-to-new-research