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Alex Coad

@coad.bsky.social
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An editor at Research Policy & Small Business Economics Prof at Waseda Business School, Tokyo

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📢📢SBEJ 5th online conference for Early Career Researchers! Fri 11th December 2026, 2-4pm (Berlin (DE) time) Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 1st November Submit or register here: bit.ly/SBEJ-ECR @sbe-journal.bsky.social Details also here: lnkd.in/p/eF5ezeq4 #EconSky
SBEJ 5th online conference for Early Career Researchers!

Fri 11th December 2026, 2-4pm (Berlin (DE) time)

Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 1st November

Submit or register here: https://bit.ly/SBEJ-ECR
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fascinated by this local gym's flyer. She has the bar running under her shoulder strap! (Also, her thumbs are in the wrong position for a squat) #AIslop
Girl in a gym with a barbell on her back. The bar goes underneath her clothing's shoulder strap and seemingly into her neck. (Also her thumbs are technically in the wrong position for the squat.)
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Stephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
🚨Elsevier forces out Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) Editor, entire editorial board has resigned, current board only handling new submissions until Nov. 14 #econsky
    Dear Advisory Editor of GEB
    We are very sorry to be the bearers of bad news for GEB.
I learned from Elsevier on Wednesday July 28 that, contrary to my expressed willingness to continue, my 3-year contract will not be renewed.
    "Moving towards a closer alignment with Elsevier strategic priorities and publishing policies" was offered as the motive for this decision. Requests for explanations, first by me, then in a collective letter by the other six Editors, were dismissed by Elsevier which simply reaffirmed its legal power to make such decisions.
    Elsevier then started precipitously its own search for new Editors without input of the Editorial Board.
    By Friday August 14 all seven Editors have sent their resignation, requiring a 3-month advance notice.
    Therefore, we will continue to manage as before the papers currently under review and the new submissions until Saturday November 14. After this date we will only complete the evaluation of papers still waiting an editorial decision.
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
👇Reminder: submit your 3-page abstract by Sun 23rd August!
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 06/08/2026
but basically, Tesla had more Clean Air Act violations in May than any other auto assembly plant in the country has had in five years I've been reporting on this since 2019 www.thedrive.com/tech/28338/d... www.thedrive.com/tech/28339/t...
thedrive.com
Documents Show Persistent Air Quality Non-Compliance At Tesla Factory
Tesla ignored air quality regulations when it repeatedly installed and operated equipment without permits and failed to test properly or maintain and report records.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 07/08/2026
Recently released footage shows the moment an earthquake struck Kumamoto General Hospital in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, during surgery on July 28, as doctors immediately protect the patient and nurses scramble to secure an evacuation route.
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
📢📢"Positioning firms along the capabilities ladder" New paper in ICC [Open Access] with Nanditha Mathew and Emanuele Pugliese Paper: doi.org/10.1093/icc/... Youtube video [16m07]: youtu.be/Ls0uZb9fVN0 #EconSky
"Positioning firms along the capabilities ladder"

New paper in ICC [Open Access] with Nanditha Mathew and Emanuele Pugliese


Paper: https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtag021

Youtube video [16m07]: https://youtu.be/Ls0uZb9fVN0
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Motorhead @bradmunchen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Anyone who still believes that Tesla is on the "cusp", or even a year away, from scaling a driverless ride-hailing service, take a look at this from Tampa, FL yesterday. $TSLA $TSLAQ
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It’ll be ok this time right? www.ft.com/content/de29...
US stocks have reached historically extreme valuations
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We know for a fact that FIFA is corrupt and bends the rules for friendly politicians (Trump got USA's red card ban cancelled after the match). So what about Argentina's many "miraculous" comebacks? 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/w...
nytimes.com
A Presidential Phone Call, a Lifted Red Card and an Embattled World Cup
There was nothing unusual about a call from President Trump or the reversal of Folarin Balogun’s suspension, said the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino.
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
📢📢 Research Policy 12th online conference for Early Career Researchers! Fri 25th September 2026, 2-4pm (UK time) Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 23rd August Link for submitting: forms.gle/Xu7oXsSV2zYX... Link to RP page: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese... #EconSky
Research Policy 12th online conference for Early Career Researchers!
Fri 25th September 2026, 2-4pm (UK time)
Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 23rd August
Link for submitting: 
https://forms.gle/Xu7oXsSV2zYXib2EA
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com
xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.
Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
U.S. airlines are starting to onboard more Starlink wifi capability. Here's a peek at their privacy Terms of Service. They apparently collect data from files and also use it for AI. starlink.com/legal/docume...
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
What if Andy Burnham could raise £15bn – without a tax rise? There's one catch. He'd need to solve the UK’s biggest and least-discussed tax problem. Almost half of all small business corporation tax isn't being paid - and nobody knows why. Thread:
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Dan O'Dowd @realdanodowd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Watch as a shadow causes Tesla self-driving v14.3.4 to swerve onto the wrong side of the road, forcing the driver to disengage! Elon Musk’s defective software should be banned from public roads.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I call Elon Musk a Nazi because he's an avowed white supremacist who undermines democracies, incites pogroms, targets minorities, intentionally caused the death of >750,000 people (so far) while laughing about it ("feeding USAID into the wood chipper"), and did a Sieg Heil at Trump's inauguration.
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Surprising to see Prof. Susan Athey in the list...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/05/2026
We're just about through with legal review for Elon Take The Wheel, which means the book that explains how Elon Musk's wealth is built on a stack of corpses (probably) won't get me sued into homelessness! Please pre-order your copy today, and help build momentum! benbellabooks.com/shop/elon-ta...
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Elon Take the Wheel - BenBella Books
Timely, thought-provoking, and rigorously sourced, Elon Take the Wheel invites readers to reconsider what automated driving promises, what it obscures, and what it means for the future of mobility.
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Weird: as a journal editor, I received a submission that cites a fake (but plausible-sounding) paper that I supposedly wrote in 2018! #AIslop #AIhallucination #EconSky
Fake reference, presumably from an AI hallucination
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 20/05/2026
SpaceX S1 is out. I have to get my kid to soccer, will post stuff about this later or tomorrow. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
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Montana Skeptic @montanaskeptic.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is truly great work by @fredlambert.bsky.social and I highly recommend it. I hope Chancellor McCormick is reading along because it completely vindicates her take on Musk's machinations. Indeed, her take was far too tepid. electrek.co/2026/05/06/m...
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Musk's AI empire is unraveling — the trial is just the beginning
From OpenAI's founding to the xAI implosion, a timeline of Elon Musk's decade-long obsession with controlling AI.
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
When I started my PhD on firm growth rates in 2004, I did not think the measurement of growth rates would become so politically charged. @stjepan-srhoj.bsky.social : let's hope the White House does not impose a new definition of High-Growth Firms (HGFs)!
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/04/2026
Tesla Q1 earnings call is now live, Elon has begun his comments, follow along here www.youtube.com/live/qO7T5zg...
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Tesla Q1 2026 Financial Results and Q&A Webcast
YouTube video by Tesla
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Conjecture: Whatever your definition of “good”, a good bottle of whisky is cheaper than two good bottles of wine
Let G be a set of items considered "good" according to a percentile-based criterion p(where ├ p∈(0,100]), such that G contains the top p% most expensive items in a given category.
For whisky and wine, let Wand V denote the sets of "good" whiskies and "good" wines, respectively, under the same percentile criterion p.
Then, for any w∈Wand any v∈V,
"price"(w)<2×"price"(v).
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“It’s digital sovereignty — and it’s quietly becoming the civilian version of rearmament.” More on the shift away from US tech. (HT @kentindell.bsky.social) www.marketwatch.com/story/europe...
marketwatch.com
Europe just started building a ‘kill switch’ for U.S. tech — and the market isn’t priced for it, says this strategist
Zoom and Microsoft are among those companies that could lose business as Europe seeks tech sovereignty, says Matthew Tuttle
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New: A Houston woman is suing Tesla in Harris County, alleging that her Cybertruck, while using Tesla's "Full Self-Driving mode" tried to drive the car off of a bridge. Here is the dashcam footage provided by her lawyers: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
📢 Reminder!! RP ECR11 online conference Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 22nd March #EconSky
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Learning Japanese hurts my eyes: in my ~A4 textbook, you need to distinguish markings with a size of about a hundredth of a centimeter...
Japanese hiragana characters, ko and go
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
... and the SI is now published in Issue 1, Feb 2026: link.springer.com/journal/1096...
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
"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.
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.
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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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.
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DRUID @druidsociety.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS #druid26 Copenhagen, Denmark June 8-10, 2026 Submission deadline: March 1 Web site: www.druid.dk
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
📢📢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
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
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 28/01/2026
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.
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 26/01/2026
📣 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)
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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.
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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!
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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
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 ....
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 24/12/2025
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.
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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.
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Humanities & Social Sciences @hss.springernature.com · 23/12/2025
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
Data Science MBA: Big Data, Digitalization, and Strategy; With Applications in R
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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...
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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...
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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...
How to download a copy of the book as PDF: go to the URL and click on "Download book PDF"
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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...
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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...
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
📖 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
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
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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! 🧵...
"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
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
🎓📈 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
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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
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
‘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/...
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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
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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📢 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... 🧵
First page of this paper: 

Coad A., Srhoj S., (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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2025.105325
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