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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Summer Institute 2009

 

Intellectual Property Policy and Innovation

 

Ben Jones and Scott Stern, Organizers

 

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Room Charles B

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

STUART GRAHAM, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

ROBERT MERGES, PAM SAMUELSON and TED SICHELMAN, UC, Berkeley

 

High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System: Results of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey

 

 

 

Discussant: WES COHEN, Duke University and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

ZHEN LEI and BRIAN WRIGHT, UC, Berkeley

 

Why Weak Patents? Rational Ignorance or Pro-Customer Tilt?

 

 

 

Discussant: MARK LEMLEY, Stanford University

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

SHARON BELENZON, Duke University

 

MARK SCHANKERMAN, London School of Economics

 

Localization of University Knowledge Spillovers: State Borders, Private Ownership and Local Development Mandates

 

 

 

Discussant:  AJAY AGRAWAL, University of Toronto and NBER

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

PETRA MOSER, Stanford University and NBER

 

ALESSANDRA VOENA, Stanford University

 

Compulsory Licensing: Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act

 

 

 

Discussant:  IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

NISVAN ERKAL, University of Melbourne

 

SUZANNE SCOTCHMER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use It, Lose It, or Bank It

 

 

 

Discussant:  GUSTAVO MANSO, MIT

 

 

 3:30 pm

PHILIPPE AGHION, Harvard University and NBER

 

JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics and NBER

 

LUIGI ZINGALES, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Institutional Ownership and Iinnovation

 

 

 

Discussant:  AUGUSTIN LANDIER, New York University

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

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