The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions

The Genesis of Technoscientific RevolutionsThe Genesis of Technoscientific RevolutionsThe Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions

The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions

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2021-2025

  • 2025 — V Narayanamurti and SC Currall — Technicians Are Key to Scientific Progress — paper in Nature 641, 308–310.
  • 2025 — JY Tsao — Beyond the Endless Frontier: Rebuilding Corporate Research for a Stronger American Future — white paper on the Bell Labs Xs vision (October 13, 2025; comprehensive revised version coming September 2026).
  • 2025 — JY Tsao — Rebuild Corporate Research for a Stronger American Future — policy brief, Federation of American Scientists Day One Project (July 9, 2025).
  • 2025 — JY Tsao, V Narayanamurti, SC Currall — The Bell Labs X "Project": A Vision for Reinventing Corporate Research Labs — working paper for the NASEM GUIPRR workshop (February 25–26, 2025).
  • 2024 — JY Tsao, RG Abbott, DC Crowder, S Desai, RPM Dingreville, JE Fowler, A Garland, PP Iyer, J Murdock, ST Steinmetz, KA Yarritu, CM Johnson, DJ Stracuzzi — AI for Technoscientific Discovery: A Human-Inspired Architecture — paper in Journal of Creativity 34, 100077.
  • 2024 — V Narayanamurti and JY Tsao — How Technoscientific Knowledge Advances: A Bell-Labs-Inspired Architecture — paper in Research Policy 53, 104983.
  • 2023 — V Narayanamurti and JY Tsao — Three Common Misconceptions About the Nature and Nurture of Research — paper in Nature Reviews Physics 5, 2–4.
  • 2022 — SC Currall and V Narayanamurti — The CHIPS and Science Act: An Inflection Point for Technological Leadership? — article in Issues in Science and Technology XXXIX (Fall 2022).
  • 2022 — V Narayanamurti — Technoscientific Research: A Missing Term in R&D Discourse — commentary, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (January 18, 2022).
  • 2021 — V Narayanamurti and JY Tsao — The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions: Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Research — book, Harvard University Press (link internally to Overview & Reviews).

2016-2020

  • 2020 — J Hoppmann, LD Anadon, V Narayanamurti — Why Matter Matters: How Technology Characteristics Shape the Strategic Framing of Technologies — paper in Research Policy 49, 103882.
  • 2019 — AP Goldstein and V Narayanamurti — Our National Experiment in Clean Energy Just Turned 10 — op-ed in The Hill (October 26, 2019).
  • 2019 — JY Tsao, CL Ting, CM Johnson — Creative Outcome as Implausible Utility — paper in Review of General Psychology 23, 279.
  • 2019 — B Alberts and V Narayanamurti — Two Threats to U.S. Science — editorial in Science 364, 613 (May 17, 2019).
  • 2018 — V Narayanamurti and JY Tsao — Nurturing Transformative U.S. Energy Research: Two Guiding Principles — paper in MRS Energy & Sustainability 5, e10.
  • 2018 — GE Aviña, CD Schunn, AR Silva, TL Bauer, GW Crabtree, CM Johnson, T Odumosu, ST Picraux, RK Sawyer, RP Schneider, R Sun, GJ Feist, V Narayanamurti, JY Tsao — The Art of Research: A Divergent/Convergent Thinking Framework and Opportunities for Science-Based Approaches — chapter in E Subramanian, JY Tsao, T Odumosu (Eds.), Engineering a Better Future (Springer, open access).
  • 2018 — AP Goldstein and V Narayanamurti — Simultaneous Pursuit of Discovery and Invention in the US Department of Energy — paper in Research Policy 47, 1505–1512.
  • 2017 — G Chan, AP Goldstein, A Bin-Nun, LD Anadon, V Narayanamurti — Six Principles for Energy Innovation — comment in Nature 552, 25–27.
  • 2017 — V Narayanamurti — Oral Testimony to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives: Energy Innovation — Letting Technology Lead — testimony (Washington, D.C., July 19, 2017).
  • 2017 — JY Tsao and V Narayanamurti — Coupling Science and Technology: Encourage but Don't Force — letter in The New Atlantis 53.
  • 2016 — V Narayanamurti and T Odumosu — Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier — book, Harvard University Press.
  • 2016 — LD Anadon, G Chan, AY Bin-Nun, V Narayanamurti — The Pressing Energy Innovation Challenge of the US National Laboratories — paper in Nature Energy 1, 16117 (September 12, 2016).

2008-2015

  • 2015 — T Odumosu, JY Tsao, V Narayanamurti — The Social Science of Creativity and Research Practice: Physical Scientists, Take Notice — commentary in Physics Today 68(11), 8–9.
  • 2013 — JY Tsao, V Narayanamurti, GJ Feist (organizers); GR Emmanuel, T Odumosu, AR Silva (proceedings editors); GW Crabtree, CM Johnson, JI Lane, L McNamara, ST Picraux, RK Sawyer, RP Schneider, CD Schunn, R Sun (invited participants) — Art and Science of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the Forum and Roundtable — proceedings of the June 2013 forum at Sandia National Laboratories (Belfer Center, December 2013).
  • 2013 — NC Andrews and V Narayanamurti — On Soloists, Symphonies, and Transdisciplinary Research — article in Issues in Science and Technology 30(1), 30–32.
  • 2013 — V Narayanamurti, T Odumosu, L Vinsel — RIP: The Basic/Applied Research Dichotomy — article in Issues in Science and Technology 29(2).
  • 2009 — V Narayanamurti, LD Anadon, AD Sagar — Transforming Energy Innovation — article in Issues in Science and Technology 26, 57–64.
  • 2008 — JY Tsao, KW Boyack, ME Coltrin, JG Turnley, WB Gauster — Galileo's Stream: A Framework for Understanding Knowledge Production — paper in Research Policy 37, 330–352.

By Other Authors

  • 1952 — R Bown — Vitality of a Research Institution and How to Maintain It — essay (Bell Telephone Laboratories; reprinted in a blog post by Ryan Macarthur, April 13, 2021).

Related Talks

Most recent talk (March 18, 2026):
"Donald Stokes' Un-Named Quadrant"
Jeff Tsao at the APS Global Physics Summit, Denver; 10-min video

See also Jeff's and Venky's YouTube metaresearch video playlists.


2026

  • 2026 Mar 18 — Donald Stokes' Un-Named Quadrant — Jeff Tsao at the APS Global Physics Summit, Denver; 10-min video

2025

  • 2025 Oct 17 — Bell Labs Xs: Reimagining Corporate Research for the 21st Century — Jeff Tsao at Progress Conference 2025, Berkeley; 23-min video
  • 2025 Sep 22 — America's Social Contract with S&T at a Time of Seismic Change — Venky Narayanamurti at Harvard's STS Circle (host: Sheila Jasanoff); 58-min video 
  • 2025 May 14 -- The Bell Labs X Project: A Vision for Re-Inventing Corporate Research Labs -- Jeff Tsao at the Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy; 12-min video
  • 2025 Mar 20 — The Scientific Method is Incomplete — Jeff Tsao at the APS Global Physics Summit, Anaheim; 11-min video
  • 2025 Feb 25–26 — The Bell Labs X "Project": A Vision for Reinventing Corporate Research Labs — Jeff Tsao at the NASEM Government-University-Industry-Philanthropy Research Roundtable workshop (host: Darryll Pines); working paper and follow-up conversation

2024

  • 2024 Dec 23 — Innovation: Beyond Boundaries Lies the Unknown and the Answer — Venky Narayanamurti, podcast interview with Yinuo Li; video
  • 2024 Jul 1 — Venky Narayanamurti's Professional Journey — Microzone podcast, IEEE Microsystems Boston (hosts: Adarsh Ravi and Allison Lemus); audio
  • 2024 Jun 28 — The Origin of the Scientific and Technological Revolution — Xue Lan on the book, Tsinghua University "Wen Dao" series; abstract (translated) and video (in Chinese)

2023

  • 2023 Aug 17 — How Human Intelligences Advance Technoscience (and How AI Might Also) — Jeff Tsao at NREL (host: Kirstin Alberi); video
  • 2023 Jul 26 — Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Discovery Research — Venky Narayanamurti on AmSECast with Alan Lowe, American Museum of Science and Energy; recording 
  • 2023 Jun 19 — Solid-State Lighting's Virtuous Cycle — Jeff Tsao at the Accelerating Development of Energy Innovation Ecosystems Workshop at the University of Cambridge, June 18-19, 2023; 8-min video
  • 2023 May 19 — Creativity in Science and Engineering: From the Human to the Artificial — Jeff Tsao at the Creativity Conference at Southern Oregon University, May 19, 2023; 26-min video
  • 2023 May 11 — Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Discovery Research — Venky Narayanamurti at UC Santa Barbara's Institute for Energy Efficiency (host: John Bowers); video

2022

  • 2022 Nov 15-17 — Technoscience Search: Opportunities/Challenges for Humans and AIs — Jeff Tsao at a Sandia National Labs colloquium; 31-min video 
  • 2022 Aug 16 — The Nature and Nurture of Research: A Modern Synthesis — Jeff Tsao at Protocol Labs; video
  • 2022 Apr 28 — Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Discovery Research — Venky Narayanamurti at Cambridge's C-EENRG Thursday Seminar Series, hosted by Qi Li and Sergey Kolesnikov  (recording no longer available)
  • 2022 Feb 24 — Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Discovery Research — Venky Narayanamurti, JPL Distinguished Speaker Series; (recording no longer available)
  • 2022 Jan 9 — Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Research — Venky Narayanamurti at the India Science Festival; video

2021

  • 2021 Dec 13 — Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Discovery Research — Venky Narayanamurti, Birck Nanotechnology Center Distinguished Seminar, Purdue University; video
  • 2021 Nov 11 — The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions — Venky Narayanamurti in conversation with Jeff Tsao, Sandia New Research Ideas Forum; 90-min video, slides and audio

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