Matt Clancy is a research fellow at Open Philanthropy and a senior fellow at The Institute for Progress, a think tank for accelerating scientific, technological, and industrial progress. He maintains New Things Under the Sun, a living literature review about innovation. Our conversation with Matt gravitates around the state of knowledge of technological innovation. We talk about inputs to innovation, models of innovation, the discipline of Progress Studies, and ways to measure technological progress. We also cover the relationship between policy and innovation. About and From Matt Clancy: Personal Website  What’s New Under the Sun: What academia knows about innovation  Are Technologies Inevitable?  Matt’s dissertation  References and Recommendations: Institute for Progress  Ned Gulley: Patterns of innovation, a web-based MATLAB programming contest  Anton Howes  William Nordhaus: Do Real-Output and Real-Wage