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Alex Coad
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An editor at Research Policy & Small Business Economics
Prof at Waseda Business School, Tokyo
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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...
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...
www.who.int
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
📖 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
October 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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!

🧵...
October 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
🎓📈 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
🎓📈New paper on University Startups: “The company I keep is not corporate enough”, Open Access in JTT
YouTube video by alexcoad1
youtu.be
October 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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‘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/...
‘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
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:04 AM
📢 Out now! Open Access

Coad A., @stjepan-srhoj.bsky.social , (2025). "Entrepreneurial ecosystems and the persistence of regional high-growth firm shares: A reply to van Dijk, Leendertse, Stam, and van Rijnsoever (2025)." Research Policy, forthcoming. doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

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September 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
📢 Now out!

Martins-Neto & Coad (2025). Planning ahead or dragging one’s feet? Organizational structure & high-growth events. Small Business Economics.

📺 This short video summarizes the main ideas [8m25]

youtu.be/ysbQz9IgEP8

OPEN ACCESS, free to download:

doi.org/10.1007/s111...

#EconSky
📈 "Organizational structure & high-growth events"; Martins-Neto & Coad, Open Access @ SBE 2025
YouTube video by alexcoad1
youtu.be
September 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
📢📢
SBEJ 4th Online Conference for Early Career Researchers
@Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal

Friday December 5, 2025, 1pm (London, UK time).

Submit your 3-page abstract by Sunday 9th Nov.

🔗 Submit & register here: bit.ly/SBEJ-ECR

#Econsky #entrepreneurship
September 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Reposted by Alex Coad
🚨 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 – One Week Left to Submit: #CDSM2025 🚨

📅 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (Virtual)
📥 Submission Deadline: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

We welcome:
✅ Presentation proposals
✅ Extended abstracts
✅ Full papers

📧 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼: submission@causalscience.org
🌐 Register or learn more: www.causalscience.org
September 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📢 Book Review in TASM, with my PhD student Yi TAO:

The Management of Innovation: Managing and Creating Technology Capital
[by Alberto Galasso]

50 free copies available here:

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WKHAF...
The Management of Innovation: Managing and Creating Technology Capital
Published in Technology Analysis & Strategic Management (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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For reference, here are p/e ratios of some other major companies:

Toyota (largest carmaker): 8.9
Ferrari (most profitable): 48.8
Nvidia (biggest market cap): 50.8
Saudi Aramco (most profitable): 14.8
Apple: 35
Meta: 27.3
Amazon: 35.1

Tesla is a bubble waiting to burst. We are the 📍 #teslatakedown
TSLA price-earnings ratio: 235
September 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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ICYMI: "Aviation now contributes a greater share of total UK emissions than the entire electricity supply sector. Continued emissions growth in this sector could put future targets at risk."

...said the Climate Change Committee (CCC) in their 2025 progress report
www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...
Progress in reducing emissions - 2025 report to Parliament - Climate Change Committee
Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 36 (1) of the Climate Change Act 2008. This report was laid…
www.theccc.org.uk
July 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
📢📢 Now out!

JTT SI on
"Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems"

w/ Clemens Domnick, Pietro Santoleri, and @stjepan-srhoj.bsky.social

Link to our SI Editorial:
doi.org/10.1007/s109...

Full-text view-only version: rdcu.be/eBOHy

6 papers were in the SI

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September 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Tesla's fourth "Master Plan" tells us nothing about the company's future. But it says plenty about the present.

It has only been two years since Master Plan III. If Tesla’s underlying business was going well, Musk wouldn’t need to ring this bell so often.

open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Tesla's Roadmap to Nowhere
I'll give him this: Elon Musk has a solid grasp of futurity-as-PR.
open.substack.com
September 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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I love that it just immediately runs off the road... trillion dollar company, clearly on the brink of solving self-driving forever
#Tesla #CyberTruck (Incel Inside®) with the deadly dangerous fraud Full Self Drive FSD

Runs straight into guard rail

Veers off road

(Thankfully driver was paying attention)

So, this probably marks the end of $TSLA #Autonowashing #Autopilot & #FSD lawsuits?

$TSLAQ
ht @stonkking4.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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🏫 University startups ≠ corporate startups

A new review shows academic entrepreneurs face unique hurdles; unlike corporate founders they must reinvent their identity to succeed in the market.

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#SciComm #HigherEd 🧪
“The company I keep is not corporate enough”: exploring the specificities of University startups - The Journal of Technology Transfer
If universities produce the best scientific research, should university startups produce the best entrepreneurs? The answer is no, when looking at the empirical evidence, and also (as done here) when ...
link.springer.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
📢 New(ish) in JTT [Open Access]:

"“The company I keep is not corporate enough”: exploring the specificities of University startups"

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If univ. startups have the best scientific knowledge, & big support from universities, why do they often underperform?

#EconSky
August 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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I attended one of the last iterations and it was a great. We received a ton of great feedback on our paper from the journal editors and others in the audience. I can highly recommend the event!
📢📢Research Policy 10th online conference for Early Career Researchers!

Fri 3rd October 2025, 2-4pm (UK time)

Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 31st August

Link for submitting:
forms.gle/GdvPaEq4seZt...

#EconSky
August 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
📢📢Research Policy 10th online conference for Early Career Researchers!

Fri 3rd October 2025, 2-4pm (UK time)

Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 31st August

Link for submitting:
forms.gle/GdvPaEq4seZt...

#EconSky
August 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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"We want you to go from highway on-ramp to highway off-ramp, without touching the controls, in the next 12 months"

(Elon Musk June 29, 2014)

German highway last month: (Tesla driver died on the spot)

www.bild.de/regional/sch...
Tödlicher Unfall auf A1 – Tesla-Fahrer stirbt nach Crash mit Lkw
Ein Tesla-Fahrer ist bei einem schweren Unfall auf der A1 Richtung Hamburg gestorben. Das Auto krachte unter einen Lkw. Die Autobahn ist teils gesperrt – es kommt zu langen Staus.
www.bild.de
July 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Dashcam from “full self-driving” Tesla shows crash resulting in death, life-altering injuries for those NOT driving the Tesla.

How our politicians can continue allowing this scam software on public roads is beyond me. Get it off our streets!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

#BoycottTesla
July 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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July 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share.

Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*.

I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind.

github.com/bretthollenb...
July 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Reposted by Alex Coad
An international call for action just got louder:

Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde

Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally

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www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists
OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...
www.lemonde.fr
July 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM