LAB

finance lab

The Human Security Lab at Digitalis Research seeks to increase security at the level of individuals and communities through a coordinated set of technology development and deployment activities.

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.

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Peter L. Bernstein in his history of modern Wall Street describes finance as follows:

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“Simply put, Wall Street shapes Main Street. It transforms factories, department stores, banking assets, film producers, machinery, soft-drink bottlers, and power lines into something that can be easily convertible into money and into vehicles for diversifying anonymous buyers or sellers. It makes hard assets liquid, and it puts a price on those assets that promises that they will be put to their most productive uses.


Wall Street also changes the character of the assets themselves. It has never been a place where people merely exchange money for stocks, bonds, and mortgages. Wall Street is a focal point where individuals, businesses, and even entire economies anticipate the future. The daily movements of security prices reveal how confident people are in their expectations, what time horizons they envisage, and what hopes and fears they are communicating to one another.”1

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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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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

PROGRAMS

funding the unfundable

Are there novel financing strategies, products, and/or organizational structures that can be developed to fund categories of health-related projects that are commonly deemed to be unfundable?

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