In a few days, we will learn who has won this year’s Nobel Prize in economics. The announcement will celebrate scholars whose ideas changed how we understand the world.
But great ideas don’t change the world by themselves. Between the scholar who develops an idea and the people who benefit from it is another kind of innovator. Someone who understands sophisticated research, recognizes its practical possibilities, and figures out how to make it work in institutions that resist change. These are intellectual entrepreneurs, and we need more of them.
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