Matt Clancy is a research fellow at Open Philanthropy and a senior fellow at The Institute for Progress, a think tank for accelerating scientific, technological, and industrial progress. He maintains New Things Under the Sun, a living literature review about innovation. Our conversation with Matt gravitates around the state of knowledge of technological innovation. We talk about inputs to innovation, models of innovation, the discipline of Progress Studies, and ways to measure technological progress. We also cover the relationship between policy and innovation. About and From Matt Clancy: Personal Website What’s New Under the Sun: What academia knows about innovation Are Technologies Inevitable? Matt’s dissertation References and Recommendations: Institute for Progress Ned Gulley: Patterns of innovation, a web-based MATLAB programming contest Anton Howes William Nordhaus: Do Real-Output and Real-Wage