Stockholm School of Economics

Friends with drugs: The role of social networks in the opioid epidemic

The current opioid epidemic is the worst drug epidemic the U.S. has ever faced. We examine the role of social connections in its spatial spread. Having many friendship links to counties with high opioid exposure positively correlates with overdose death rates. To address identifi...

Teaching to learn and learning to teach: using machine training to develop artificial intelligence partners in new product development

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping how innovation is developed, and new product development (NPD) is an important domain at the centre of this shift, given its data-rich, high-uncertainty contexts. In this paper, we focus on the design and training of AI systems...