About
Accelerating Innovation
Threats to the global community — such as climate change and pandemics — demand urgent innovation and action at scale. But when commercial incentives for innovation trail behind the social value, market shaping instruments can credibly signal demand and spur and scale up innovation.
The Market Shaping Accelerator aims to harness the momentum and interest in these tools generated from global successes in vaccine development to accelerate their adoption by governments, multilateral institutions, and philanthropies to solve the world’s most pressing challenges.
View the MSA Glossary to learn more about commonly-used terms.
About
Accelerating Innovation
Threats to the global community — such as climate change and pandemics — demand urgent innovation and action at scale. But when commercial incentives for innovation trail behind the social value, market shaping instruments can credibly signal demand and spur and scale up innovation.
The Market Shaping Accelerator aims to harness the momentum and interest in these tools generated from global successes in vaccine development to accelerate their adoption by governments, multilateral institutions, and philanthropies to solve the world’s most pressing challenges.
View the MSA Glossary to learn more about commonly-used terms.
Our Team
Nobel Laureates, Leading Scholars and Innovators Advance the Use of Market Shaping Instruments to Address Global Challenges
The Market Shaping Accelerator brings together the world’s leading market shaping experts. The team behind the Accelerator has contributed to both foundational research and prominent policy successes of market shaping mechanisms, including the Pneumococcal Advance Market Commitment (AMC) and Frontier led by Stripe Climate.
Directors
Rachel Glennerster
Michael Kremer
University Professor in Economics, University of Chicago; 2019 Nobel Prize Recipient
Leah Rosenzweig
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Christopher Snyder
Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor in Economics, Dartmouth College
Staff
William Arnesen
Akhil Bansal
Sarrin Chethik
Siddhartha Haria
Claire McMahon
Emmanuel Murray Leclair
Sebastian Quaade
Rebecca Rolapp
Advisors
Susan Athey
Stanford University
Christopher Norio Avery
Harvard University
Cath Bremner
Impax Asset Management
Michael Greenstone
University of Chicago
Tom Kalil
Renaissance Philanthropy
Matthew Kotchen
Yale University
Steve Levitt
University of Chicago
David McAdams
Duke University
Nan Ransohoff
Frontier
Jean Tirole
Toulouse School of Economics; 2014 Nobel Prize Recipient
Heidi Williams
Dartmouth College
Catherine Wolfram
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Innovation Challenge
An open call for ideas to surface high-impact market shaping proposals to address climate change and pandemic preparedness
In its first year the Accelerator will surface challenges well suited to be addressed with market shaping instruments, support the development of viable proposals, attract external funding to move selected proposals into action and finally follow these mechanisms through to completion.
Climate Change
Climate mitigation and adaptation strategies including carbon removal, green steel, clean cooling, and climate-resilient crops pose potential opportunities for market shaping mechanisms to increase commercial incentives for innovation in these areas.
Pandemic Preparedness
Global losses from pandemics are expected to be over $800 billion annually. Promising candidates for market shaping instruments to mitigate these losses include broad spectrum antivirals, a universal coronavirus vaccine, and an intranasal coronavirus vaccine, among others.
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Opportunities
Join the Accelerator
We’re hiring postdoctoral scholars to work across MSA projects as well as full time staff for our climate-resilient crops project. We are also interested in people with domain expertise in climate change and pandemic preparedness as well as the economics of innovation, industrial organization and costing/pricing. If you are interested in offering your expertise, please reach out: [email protected].
