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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

The Changing Frontier:  Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy Conference

 

Adam Jaffe and Ben Jones, Organizers

 

Renaissance Hotel

1871 Entrepreneurship Incubator

Chicago IL

Chicago IL

 

August 2-3, 2013

 

PROGRAM

 

Friday, August 2, Renaissance Hotel

 

 

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:45

Welcome and Introductions

 

 

Geography and Innovation

 

 

9:00 am

Lee Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

Guangwei Li, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Francisco Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University

 

The Globalization of R&D: China, India, and the Rise of International Co-invention

 

 

 

Discussant:  Bronwyn Hall, UC Berkeley and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Hezekiah Agwara, George Mason University

 

Philip Auerswald, George Mason University

 

Brian Higginbotham, George Mason University

 

Algorithms and the Changing Frontier

 

 

 

Discussant:  Tim Simcoe, Boston University and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:20 am

Christopher Forman, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto

 

Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity

 

 

 

Discussant:  Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

12:20 pm

Lunch

 

 

The Science Enterprise

 

 

1:30 pm

Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER

 

The Endless Frontier:  Reaping What Bush Sowed?

 

 

 

Discussant:  Bruce Weinberg, Ohio State University and NBER

 

 

2:30 pm

 Break

 

 

2:45 pm

Annamaria Conti, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Christopher Liu, University of Toronto

 

The (Changing) Knowledge Production Function: MIT Department of Biology from 1966-2000

 

 

 

Discussant:  Fabian Waldinger, University of Warwick

 

 

3:45 pm

Break

 

 

4:00 pm

Ajay Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER

 

John McHale, National University of Ireland

 

Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science: Evidence from Evolutionary Biology

 

 

 

Discussant: Julia Lane, American Institutes for Research

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Conference Dinner at Coco Pazzo

 

 

Saturday, August 3, 1871 Entrepreneurship Incubator

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

The Science Enterprise (cont’d)

 

 

8:30 am

Richard Freeman, Harvard University and NBER

 

Ina Ganguli, SITE, Stockholm School of Economics

 

Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Harvard University

 

Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration

 

 

 

Discussant:  Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel-Aviv University and NBER

 

 

9:30 am

Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER

 

Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

The Changing Nature of Scientific Credit

 

 

 

Discussant:  Suzanne Scotchmer, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

Entrepreneurship

 

 

11:00 am

Timothy Bresnahan, Stanford University and NBER

 

Pai-Ling Yin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Jason Davis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Economic Value Creation in Mobile Applications

 

 

 

Discussant:  Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Maryann Feldamn, University of North Carolina

 

Lauren Lanahan, University of North Carolina

 

State Science Policy Experiments in the Laboratories of Democracy

 

 

 

Discussant:  Irwin Feller, Pennsylvania State University

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

Ramana Nanda, Harvard University

 

Ken Younge, University of Colorado

 

Lee Fleming, University of California at Berkeley

 

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy

 

 

 

Discussant:  Steven Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

 

3:30 pm

Roundtable: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy

 

 

4:30 pm

Adam Jaffe and Ben Jones

 

Wrap-up and Next Steps

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn