# Professor Petra Moser is quoted in a story on new research on innovation in the US

1 Faculty News November 27, 2018 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/27/is-third-wave-us-innovation-over-what-we-learned-measurement-americas-most-influential-inventions/?utm_term=.8fd6936d9d53)-- "Petra Moser, a New York University Stern School of Business economist, has long studied patents and innovation, most notably in a widely cited analysis of two 19th-century world’s fairs. Patents don’t capture every human advance, she said, but 'they’re our most complete record of innovation.'"

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