NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Innovation Policy and the Economy

 

Adam Jaffe, Joshua Lerner, and Scott Stern: Organizers

 

April 14, 2009

 

National Press Club

529 14th Street, NW

Washington, DC

 

PROGRAM

 

 8:15 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 8:45 am          MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER

                        HEIDI WILLIAMS, Harvard University 

                        Incentivizing Innovation: Adding to the Toolkit

                         

 9:25 am          FELIX OBERHOLZER-GEE, Harvard University

                        KOLEMAN STRUMPF, University of Kansas

                        File-Sharing and Copyright

 

10:05 am         Break

 

10:20 am         ANTOINETTE SCHOAR, MIT and NBER

                        Globalization of Entrepreneurship

 

11:00 am         PAULA STEPHAN, Georgia State University and NBER

                        The “I’s” Have It:  Immigration and Innovation, the Perspective from Academe

 

11:40 am         Break

 

11:55 am         MATTHEW SLAUGHTER, Dartmouth College and NBER

                        IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

                        The Global Location of Biopharmaceutical Knowledge Activity:  New Findings, New Questions

 

12:35 am         JERRY THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology

                        MARIE THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER

                        University Licensing:  Harnessing or Tarnishing Faculty Research?

 

1:15 PM           Luncheon