Dan Traficonte
@dtraficonte.bsky.social
law prof at Syracuse; political economy, innovation, industrial policy, US-China tech rivalry
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Government Research | Yale Law Journal
Previous scholarship has analyzed a host of innovation institutions––including patents, prizes, and grants––but has overlooked government-conducted...
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Excited that my new article is now out in the @yalelawjournal.bsky.social! The article takes a look at intramural research (R&D funded and performed by the government) from an innovation law perspective: yalelawjournal.org/article/gove...
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Professor @katmacfarlane.bsky.social essay Self-Accommodation has been published in the University of California Health Humanities Press collection “Legal Determinants of Health: From Incarceration to Accessibility,” edited by Brian Dolan and Juliet McMullin. escholarship.org/uc/item/96j9...
The Legal Determinants of Health: From Incarceration to Accessibility
Author(s): Dolan, Brian; McMullin, Juliet | Abstract: The Legal Determinants of Health: From Incarceration to Accessibility brings together six cutting-edge essays that expose how legal systems—through incarceration, detention, disability law, tort doctrine, and human subjects research—profoundly shape health outcomes and perpetuate structural inequality. From forced sterilizations in prisons to the hidden burdens of self-accommodation, the authors reveal how law can both cause and conceal harm, especially among marginalized populations. Blending bioethics, legal history, disability studies, and public health, this volume challenges readers to rethink what justice and autonomy mean in environments defined by surveillance, stigma, and institutional neglect—and calls for bold legal and structural reforms to achieve genuine health equity.
escholarship.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Professor @katmacfarlane.bsky.social essay Self-Accommodation has been published in the University of California Health Humanities Press collection “Legal Determinants of Health: From Incarceration to Accessibility,” edited by Brian Dolan and Juliet McMullin. escholarship.org/uc/item/96j9...
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Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
November 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
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In his Article, @dtraficonte.bsky.social offers the first comprehensive analysis of government research, examining its institutional design, comparative advantages, and normative justifications, and situating it as an indispensable paradigm within the national innovation system.
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In his Article, @dtraficonte.bsky.social offers the first comprehensive analysis of government research, examining its institutional design, comparative advantages, and normative justifications, and situating it as an indispensable paradigm within the national innovation system.
Excited that my new article is now out in the @yalelawjournal.bsky.social! The article takes a look at intramural research (R&D funded and performed by the government) from an innovation law perspective: yalelawjournal.org/article/gove...
Government Research | Yale Law Journal
Previous scholarship has analyzed a host of innovation institutions––including patents, prizes, and grants––but has overlooked government-conducted...
yalelawjournal.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Excited that my new article is now out in the @yalelawjournal.bsky.social! The article takes a look at intramural research (R&D funded and performed by the government) from an innovation law perspective: yalelawjournal.org/article/gove...
Reposted by Dan Traficonte
In my review of Dan Wang's Breakneck, I argue that China’s trajectory looks less unique—and less puzzling—when viewed through the lens of the developmental state, a framework long used to explain the (also building-heavy) rise of Japan and Korea.
www.valueadded.tech/p/is-china-a...
www.valueadded.tech/p/is-china-a...
Is China an Engineering or Developmental State?
Breakneck is excellent, but could use a touch more developmental thinking.
www.valueadded.tech
September 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
In my review of Dan Wang's Breakneck, I argue that China’s trajectory looks less unique—and less puzzling—when viewed through the lens of the developmental state, a framework long used to explain the (also building-heavy) rise of Japan and Korea.
www.valueadded.tech/p/is-china-a...
www.valueadded.tech/p/is-china-a...
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The ongoing denigration of expertise, science, and the research enterprise will have both short- and long-term costs for human health and lives
There are certain leaders who quietly make complex organizations operate well including in the toughest of times — leaders like Peter Marks.
Peter Marks’ ouster is an ominous sign for biotech — and for public health
“Marks being forced out at CBER highlights what I see as a lack of informed, good intentions behind the so-called Make America Healthy Again movement,” writes Paul Knoepfler in @STATNews’ “Lab Dish”…
buff.ly
March 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The ongoing denigration of expertise, science, and the research enterprise will have both short- and long-term costs for human health and lives
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See this chart for one stark example: NIH funding has dramatically slowed down.
Grant awards are down *$3 billion* so far, compared to same time period last year
I asked the White House to explain.
“This is not a researcher entitlement program,” said an official, defending their new approach.
Grant awards are down *$3 billion* so far, compared to same time period last year
I asked the White House to explain.
“This is not a researcher entitlement program,” said an official, defending their new approach.
March 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
See this chart for one stark example: NIH funding has dramatically slowed down.
Grant awards are down *$3 billion* so far, compared to same time period last year
I asked the White House to explain.
“This is not a researcher entitlement program,” said an official, defending their new approach.
Grant awards are down *$3 billion* so far, compared to same time period last year
I asked the White House to explain.
“This is not a researcher entitlement program,” said an official, defending their new approach.
A major advantage of state-sponsored science — particularly in-house government R&D — is (or was?) the avoidance of the low-risk short-termism of corporate research
Curious just how much important scientific work (including the Manhattan Project or even much of the early work on neural networks) would not have survived the need to track "weekly accomplishments" via a dedicated app.
March 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A major advantage of state-sponsored science — particularly in-house government R&D — is (or was?) the avoidance of the low-risk short-termism of corporate research
Trump admin may think corporate R&D alone can maintain national tech competitiveness — a pre-WW2 idea that every country with the means to do so has since abandoned
this—there is something so wacky and upside down about an emergent political order* premised on technological supremacy while eviscerating scientific knowledge.
*or would-be order, TBD
*or would-be order, TBD
"if anything made America great during the long era of American economic ascendance, it was extensive funding of applied science" -Bob Kuttner
prospect.org/politics/202...
prospect.org/politics/202...
March 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Trump admin may think corporate R&D alone can maintain national tech competitiveness — a pre-WW2 idea that every country with the means to do so has since abandoned
We could add to @quinnslobodian.com’s analogy Trump’s gutting of state capacity — SA is famously reliant on outside “experts” from McKinsey et al for any and all major decisions
March 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We could add to @quinnslobodian.com’s analogy Trump’s gutting of state capacity — SA is famously reliant on outside “experts” from McKinsey et al for any and all major decisions