The NBER Innovation Information Initiative (i3), a data collaborative for open innovation data and related analytics, tools, and metrics, will run the fourth cohort of Open Data Fellows.
The i3 will award five or more fellowships of $1500 each to graduate students in economics, innovation, entrepreneurship, or related fields. The fellowships aim to broaden the range of datasets, tools and documentation accessible to the research community, support a new generation of researchers in producing and sharing high-quality, reusable research data and code, and provide a network of support for these researchers, including through opportunities available to current and former fellows to attend and present this work at future NBER conferences.
Specifically, i3 fellowships will support students to contribute new datasets, tools, code, and/or metadata to the innovation research community. These contributions may come in the form either of a new project, or an existing project under development. We intend for this program to include a diversity of work. Our primary requirement is that your project is developed with the intention of public dissemination in mind.
The fellowships will run from January to December 2027. Fellows are expected to present their project at the end of the fellowship period at the annual i3 Technical Working Group meeting in December 2027. The program is intended to be supportive, collaborative, and not a major time commitment, with periodic one-on-one and group meetings to share progress and provide guidance.
This call is open to current graduate (Masters or PhD) students or those who graduated in the past six months. International applicants, including those on US student visas, may have specific considerations that could affect the payment process. We recommend consulting your international student office prior to applying to determine your eligibility to receive fellowship stipend payments and travel reimbursement from the NBER.
Please submit your proposal using this Google form by November 1st, 2026.
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We will announce the selected fellows in November, and fellows will be invited to attend this year’s i3 Technical Working Group meeting December 4-5, 2026.