NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Innovation Policy and the Economy

 

Joshua Lerner and Scott Stern, Organizers

 

April 17, 2012

 

National Press Club

529 14th Street, NW

Washington, DC

 

FINAL PROGRAM

 

 

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

8:45 am

Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

(Joint with Joshua Graff Zivin and Gustavo Manso)

 

NIH Peer Review: Problems and Avenues for Reform

 

 

9:30 am

Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Evaluating the Role of Science Philanthropy in American Research Universities

 

 

10:10 am

Break

 

 

10:35 am

Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER

 

The Boulevard of Broken Dreams:  Innovation Policy and Entrepreneurship

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:35 am

Mark Lemley, Stanford University

 

Fixing the Patent Office

 

 

12:15 pm

Jeff Furman, Boston University and NBER

 

The America COMPETES Act:  History, Overview, & Implementation

 

 

1:00 pm

Luncheon

 

Luncheon Speaker:  Rebecca M. Blank, Deputy Secretary of Commerce