NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Location of Biopharmaceutical Activity Conference

 

Iain Cockburn and Matthew Slaughter, Organizers

 

March 7-8, 2008

 

River Street Inn

124 E. Bay Street

Savannah, GA

 

PROGRAM

 

 

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 6:

 

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner - River Street Inn

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 7:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

ASHISH ARORA and CHIRANTAN CHATTERJEE, Carnegie Mellon University

 

LEE BRANSTETTER, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

Strong Medicine:  Patent Reform and the Emergence of a Research-Driven Pharmaceutical Industry in India

 

 

 

Discussant:  KEITH MASKUS, University of Colorado

 

 

10:00 am

ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER

 

IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

 

FABIO THIERS, MIT

 

The Globalization of Clinical Trials for New Medicines into Emerging Economies: Where Are They Going and Why?

 

 

 

Discussant:  JAMES SCHUTTINGA, National Institutes of Health

 

 

11:00 am

Coffee Break

 

 

11:15 am

JERRY THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

MARIE THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Globalization of Healthcare Research:  What Kind of Science is Conducted in New R&D Sites? 

 

 

 

Discussant:  DONALD CONWAY, Dartmouth College

 

 

12:15 pm

KIRA FABRIZIO and L.G. THOMAS, Emory University

 

Tacit Demand and Innovation in the Global Pharmaceutical Industry

 

 

 

Discussant:  DAVID RIDLEY, Duke University

 

 

1:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

2:15 pm

PIERRE AZOULAY, MIT and NBER

 

ARIEL FISHMAN, Yeshiva University

 

Doctors, $$ and Drug Development: The Rise for For-Profit Experimental Medicine

 

 

 

Discussant:  BENJAMIN JONES, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

 

 

7:00 pm 

Group Dinner

 

Vic’s on the River

 

26 E. Bay Street

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 8:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

NICK ARGYRES, Boston University

 

ELIAS BRUEGMANN, Harvard University

 

JEFFREY FURMAN, Boston University and NBER

 

Post-Merger R&D Re-Organization in the Global Pharmaceutical Industry

 

 

 

Discussant:  ANDREA FOSFURI, University Carlos III de Madrid

 

 

10:00 am

MERCEDES DELGADO-GARCIA, Harvard University

 

MARGARET KYLE, London Business School and NBER

 

ANITA McGAHAN, University of Toronto

 

The Influence of TRIPS on Global Trade in Pharmaceuticals, 1994-2005

 

 

 

Discussant:  PHILLIP McCALMAN, UC, Santa Cruz

 

 

11:00 am

Coffee Break

 

 

11:15 am

JUAN ALCACER, Harvard University

 

JOHN CANTWELL and MICHELLE GITTELMAN, Rutgers University

 

Are Licensing Markets Local?  An Analysis of the Geography of Vertical Licensing Agreements in Bio-Pharmaceuticals

 

 

 

Discussant:  MATTHEW HIGGINS, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

 

12:15 pm

PAMINA KOENIG, Université Paris X

 

MEGAN MacGARVIE, Boston University and NBER

 

Regulatory Policy and the Location of Bio-Pharmaceutical FDI in Europe

 

 

 

Discussant:  DEBORAH SWENSON, UC, Davis and NBER

 

 

1:15  pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/25/08