Alex Coad

📢 Reminder!!
RP ECR11 online conference

Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 22nd March

#EconSky

Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

Japanese hiragana characters, ko and go

Learning Japanese hurts my eyes: in my ~A4 textbook, you need to distinguish markings with a size of about a hundredth of a centimeter...

... and the SI is now published in Issue 1, Feb 2026:

link.springer.com/journal/1096...

SpaceX, for example, aims to use agile innovation to begin transporting people to Mars by 2024, with the goal of establishing a self-sustaining colony on the planet.

"Harvard Business Review" is a prestigious FT50 scientific journal, important for hiring, promotions, research funding, etc.

So why are they publishing this crap?

#EconSky #SpaceX

Rigby, D.K., Sutherland, J., Noble, A. (2018). Agile at scale. Harvard Business Review, 96(3), 88-96.

Id like to run a special issue of a social science journal on "Calling Bullshit" where people can just go on a full on rant (anonymously if they like) and rip well established ideas to shreds. Zero requirements to be balanced or polite or have any respect for pompous senior professors.

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
#druid26
Copenhagen, Denmark
June 8-10, 2026
Submission deadline: March 1
Web site: www.druid.dk

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@paulnightingale.bsky.social
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@karogge.bsky.social‬

Research Policy 11th online conference for Early Career Researchers! Mon 27th April 2026, 2-4pm (UK time) Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 22nd March

📢📢Research Policy 11th online conference for Early Career Researchers!

Mon 27th April 2026, 2-4pm (UK time)

Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 22nd March

Link for submitting:
forms.gle/bkMBQLia6Fhe...

Link to RP page:
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...

#EconSky

Could be a useful way to publish on topics that you suspect might get unflattering results!

New submission format at SBE:
“Replications as Registered Reports”

link.springer.com/journal/1118...

You can get "in-principle acceptance" before data collection even begins; final paper gets published regardless the results, if the study is conducted rigorously.

#EconSky

I'm a few minutes behind the live call, but here's my Q4 Tesla earnings call "live thread"!

We start out with Elon announcing that Tesla's mission has changed to "Amazing Abundance," which represents a pivot from the "Sustainable Abundance" tagline he announced last year.

📣 Come join a top-5 strategy department in Europe and work with me on an exciting topic at the intersection of causal AI and strategy 🤖📈

I'm recruiting a PhD student as part of my Sapere Aude Research Leader Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. (1/3)

It’s not that America elected a despot. Lots of countries have done that.

It’s that they RE-elected a despot. He showed them who he was during his first term. He showed them more of who he was during his time out of office. But they STILL voted him back in.

The one thing that is growing extremely fast is the wealth of the top billionaires:

The top 0.00001% used to own the equivalent of 3% of national income in wealth in 2010

Now they own the equivalent of 12% of national income!

Many self-employed are trapped in jobs paying way below minimum wage...

I'm extending research we have been doing on marginal undersized poor performance firms, looking at their labour productivity.

The length of the long tail of poor performance firms in the UK is well known but still striking.

But the depth of that tail is a real shocker. Their labour ....

Tesla drivers buying escape tools and new cars to avoid getting trapped inside Addressing Tesla's malfunctioning doors has gained urgency in the U.S. after numerous incidents in which people were severely injured or died after being unable to escape vehicles.

From buying glass breakers to opting for new cars, Tesla owners are having to go to great lengths to deal with a problem most had never imagined: being unable to open malfunctioning doors in the electric vehicle.

Data Science MBA: Big Data, Digitalization, and Strategy; With Applications in R

In the digital age, leadership matters more than ever. 'Data Science MBA'—by @coad.bsky.social—just published in @springer.springernature.com. Discusses the skills of a data scientist & how digital transformation leads to new concerns surrounding ethics. bit.ly/4s28asS #BookSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Waseda Podcasts: Rigorous Research, Real Impact– “University vs. Corporate Startups: A Tale of Two Entrepreneurial Paths” Waseda University released episode seven, “University vs. Corporate Startups: A Tale of Two Entrepreneurial Paths”, of season two of its Eng...

Waseda Podcasts: Rigorous Research, Real Impact– “University vs. Corporate Startups: A Tale of Two Entrepreneurial Paths”

www.waseda.jp/top/en/news/...

Podcast where I discuss my recent paper in JTT:
"The company I keep is not corporate enough", on University startups.

doi.org/10.1007/s109...

The book is now online!

While logged in at your university, if you go here and click on "Download book PDF", you can freely download the book PDF:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Climate inaction is claiming millions of lives every year, warns new Lancet Countdown report WHO and global partners are calling for the protection of people’s health to be recognized as the most powerful driver of climate action, as a new global report released today warns that continued ove...

Governments spent US$956 billion on net fossil fuel subsidies in 2023, more than triple the annual amount pledged to support climate-vulnerable countries. Fifteen countries spent more subsidizing fossil fuels than on their entire national health budgets. @thelancet.com

www.who.int/news/item/29...

Book cover for my new book: for my new book: "Data Science MBA: Big Data, Digitalization, and Strategy; with applications in R" Published by Springer Coming out before the end of 2025

📖 Excited to be checking the proofs for my new book:

"Data Science MBA:
Big Data, Digitalization, and Strategy; with applications in R"

Published by Springer

Coming out before the end of 2025!

If your library has a deal with Springer, it will be free to download the PDF

Percent self-employed on the vertical axis, log of per capita income on the horizontal axis. There is clearly a negative relationship.

This is reminiscent of previous findings of a negative relationship between Self-Employment and GDP per capita:

Henrekson & Sanandaji:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (May 2025) - In the World Bank Enterprise Survey, the share of entrepreneurs who are women first rises and then falls with national income, while female labor force participation has the opposite U-sh...

The share of female entrepreneurs first rises, then falls with national income

In higher-income countries, female entrepreneurs tend to have smaller firms in low-complexity sectors (e.g. due to discrimination), weakening the gains from female entrepreneurship

Link:
doi.org/10.1257/pand...

"The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development" The share of entrepreneurs who are women first rises & then falls with national income

ICYMI fascinating evidence from Ashraf et al:

"The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development"

Maximizing the number of female entrepreneurs could be the wrong policy target!

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🎓📈New paper on University Startups: “The company I keep is not corporate enough”, Open Access in JTT YouTube video by alexcoad1

🎓📈 New paper: “The company I keep is not corporate enough”: exploring the specificities of University startups.
published in JTT, Open Access!

📺 This short video summarizes some of the ideas [12m32]

youtu.be/HKyU0GSL3BU

LINK to the paper:
doi.org/10.1007/s109...

#EconSky #Entrepreneurship

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

- Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fig. 3. van Dijk et al. (2025)’s indicator of persistence is unable to distinguish between extreme positive persistence (left) and extreme negative persistence (right). Notes: Measuring persistence using a first-order autoregressive model (like our eq. (4), but with only one first-order lag), we get ρ persistence on the left, and ρ = 0.8 for the case of positive = 1.00 for the case of negative persistence on the right. Van Dijk et al. (2025)’s indicator of “persistence” calculates the same score of - 0.3513642 for both the left and the right. R code is in the Online Supplementary Materials.

These two time series do NOT have the same degree of persistence!

#EconSky
#EntrepreneurialEcosystems

Pondering the timeline that underlies the analysis in van Dijk et al 2025

Their timeline is not clear to us...