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title: "Ramana Nanda · AI Fault Line"
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description: "AI Fault Line is a neutral, evidence-cited field guide to why experts looking at the same developments disagree about AI's effect on productivity, jobs, inequality, regulation and the pace of change."
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[Researchers](https://aifaultline.com/authors/)

# Ramana Nanda

Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, Imperial College London
Signed the letter · Academia · United Kingdom

[homepage](https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/ramana.nanda) · [orcid](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7920-7730)

Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance and Associate Dean for Enterprise at Imperial College Business School, and director of Imperial's Institute for Deep Tech Entrepreneurship. Studies financing frictions facing new ventures and how investors, corporate R&D and policymakers select and commercialise new technologies. On the full-time faculty of Harvard Business School from 2007 to 2020. PhD from MIT Sloan; recipient of the 2015 Kauffman Prize Medal and a 2020 ERC Consolidator Grant. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.

[AI-written](https://aifaultline.com/about/) Documented facts only, from the sources below.

14 works in the co-authorship map · 4,283 citations across them

Sources

1. [Ramana Nanda - Imperial College London profile](https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/ramana.nanda)

2. [Venture Capital’s Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn](https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.34.3.237)

3. “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — [source](https://wemustactnow.ai)

## In the network

5 co-authors on the map · PageRank #96 of 400 · bridge #35 of 400 · 4 steps from Erik Brynjolfsson · [cluster: Startup experimentation and AI](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#cluster=7).

Measured on this map only, which grows out of the letter's signatories; [what these numbers mean](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#about). [See Ramana Nanda on the map](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#map=ramana-nanda)

## Documented positions

[Will AI actually boost productivity and growth?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/productivity/) unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

[Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/jobs/) unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

[Will AI widen inequality?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/inequality/) unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

[Should governments act on AI now?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/regulation/) unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

[How fast will the impact arrive?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/pace/) unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

## Selected work

- [Entrepreneurship as Experimentation](https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.28.3.25)

- [Venture Capital’s Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn](https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.34.3.237)

## Writes with

[Matthew Rhodes‐Kropf](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#map=matthew-rhodeskropf) (4), [Josh Lerner](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#map=josh-lerner) (1), [Olav Sorenson](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#map=olav-sorenson) (1), [Sampsa Samila](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#map=sampsa-samila) (1), [Thomas Astebro](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#map=thomas-astebro) (1)

Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (5 of 5 shown).

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