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Teppo Felin
@teppofelin.bsky.social
ion foundation endowed prof | university of utah | cognition, AI, generative rationality, theory-based view, causal reasoning, economics, strategy
Where do new technologies and innovations come from?

Madison Singell and I take up this question in our forthcoming paper in European Economic Review
October 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Congrats to our daughter Dr Emma Felin! She just successfully defended her doctoral thesis @ox.ac.uk
May 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
11 years later, I still think the frame problem is a knock down argument against AI (when it comes to novelty)

See this 2014 piece with Stuart Kauffman et al: drive.google.com/file/d/1yrID...
April 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This time with Michael. (Though results vary.)
April 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Ask your ChatGPT this question:

"Alice has 4 brothers and 1 sister. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?"

I did - just now. See below. These types of problems provide a window into key issues with AI.
April 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Does AI prediction scale to decision making?

A short piece with Mari Sako.
March 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This list of readings (by Jessica Hullman) should be required for anyone dealing with AI and decision making.
March 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM
The Bayesian Entrepreneurship conference in Milan (SDA Bocconi) was fantastic.

Big-time thanks to Arnaldo Camuffo Alfonso Gambardella Ajay Agrawal Joshua Gans Erin L Scott Scott Stern. #bayesian
March 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
For anyone interested: a free webinar on Lean and the Scientific Method (Mon, March 10, noon EST). I'll be doing a short presentation of our paper "A Scientific Method for Startups" - with Gambardella Novelli Zenger. Great lineup: Blank Gruber Barney Alvarez Sarasvathy Bacq Zott McGrath etc.
March 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM