NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Summer Institute 2008

 

Intellectual Property Policy and Innovation

 

Ben Jones and Scott Stern, Organizers

 

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Tuesday, July 22:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

ASHISH ARORA, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

LEE BRANSTETTER, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

KAMAL SAGGI, Southern Methodist University

 

Strong Medicine? Patent Reform and the Transformation of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

 

 

 

Discussant: YI QIAN, Northwestern University

 

 

10:00 am

SCOTT BAKER, University of North Carolina

 

JOHN CONLEY, University of North Carolina

 

ARVIND MALHOTRA, University of North Carolina

 

Does the Market Care about Changes in Patent Law?

 

 

 

Discussant: IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

KRISHNAMURTHY SUBRAMANIAN, Emory University

 

Firm Boundaries in the New Economy: Theory and Evidence

 

 

 

Discussant: BOB GIBBONS, MIT and NBER

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

MARK LEMLEY, Stanford University

 

BHAVEN SAMPAT, Columbia University

 

Examiner Characteristics and the Patent Grant Rate

 

 

 

Discussant:  JOACHIM HENKEL, Technische Universität München

 

 

2:15 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

ALBERTO GALASSO, University of Toronto

 

MARK SCHANKERMAN, London School of Economics

 

Patent Thickets and the Market of Ideas: Evidence from the Settlement of Patent Disputes

 

 

 

Discussant:  DANIEL QUINT, University of Wisconsin

 

 

3:30 pm

JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER

 

MORTON SORENSEN, University of Chicago and NBER

 

PER STROMBERG, Stockholm Institute for Financial Research and NBER

 

Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation

 

 

 

Discussant:  BRONWYN HALL, UC Berkeley and NBER

 

 

  4:30 pm

Adjourn