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LAB
finance lab
The Finance Lab at Digitalis Research focuses on developing novel financing strategies, products, and organizational structures related to health and human security.
Technology and innovation underpin finance. In order to manage risk and channel money from savers and investors to entities that need it, technologies arose that pooled risk and money across many, diverse people and organizations. The insurance contract is one example. Social security is another.
Peter L. Bernstein in his history of modern Wall Street describes finance as follows:
Digitalis Research is particularly interested in how financial support for certain categories of technology (e.g., therapeutics) over others (e.g., research tools) impacts innovation and health. How should we fund the unfundable to drive better health outcomes?
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Peter L. Bernstein, Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street, Free Press, 1992, p. 6
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