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CRIW: Measuring and Accounting for Innovation in the 21st Century

Carol Corrado, Javier Miranda, Jonathan Haskel, and Daniel Sichel, Organizers

March 10-11, 2017

Fisher Colloquium, 4th Floor
Rafik
B. Hariri Building

McDonough School of Business

Georgetown University

37th and O Streets, NW
Washington, DC

Program


Participant List

Friday, March 10

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks by Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland and NBER

Chair:  Carol Corrado/ Daniel Sichel

Extending Current Measurement Frameworks

9:30 am

Speakers: 20 minutes each, discussant 20 minutes

Chair:  Carol Corrado


Charles Hulten, University of Maryland and NBER
Leonard Nakamura, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia     Slides     Background Paper
We See the Digital Revolution Everywhere Except in Real GDP

Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland and NBER
John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Kristin Sandusky, Bureau of the Census
James Spletzer, Bureau of the Census      Slides
Measuring the Gig Economy: Current Knowledge and Open Issues

Discussant:  Barry Bosworth, Brookings Institution      Slides

10:45 am

Break

11:15 am

Speakers: 20 minutes each, discussant 20 minutes

Chair: Javier Miranda


Dominique Guellec, OECD/OCDE
Caroline Paunov, OECD  
Digital Innovation and the Distribution of Income

Lucia Foster, Bureau of the Census
Cheryl Grim, Bureau of the Census
John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Zoltan Wolf, Bureau of the Census      Slides
Innovation, Productivity Growth and Productivity Dispersion

Discussant:  Jonathan Haskel, Imperial College London      Slides

12:30 pm

Lunch

Speakers: 20 minutes each

Speakers:
Diane Coyle, University of Manchester
Baruch Lev, New York University       Slides

New Approaches and Data

2:00 pm

Speakers: 20 minutes each, discussant 20 minutes

Chair:  Jonathan Haskel

Wesley Cohen, Duke University and NBER
You-Na Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
John Walsh, Georgia Institute of Technology
Measuring the Several Faces of Innovation      Slides

Emin Dinlersoz, Bureau of the Census
Nathan Goldschlag, Bureau of the Census
Amanda Myers, Patent and Trademark Office
Nikolas Zolas, Bureau of the Census      Slides
An Anatomy of Trademarking by Firms in the United States

Discussant:  Mark Roberts, Pennsylvania State University and NBER      Slides

3:15 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Speakers: 20 minutes each, discussant 20 minutes

Chair:  Daniel Sichel


Nathan Goldschlag, Bureau of the Census
Ron Jarmin, Bureau of the Census
Julia Lane, New York University
Nikolas Zolas, Bureau of the Census      Slides
The Link between University R&D, Human Capital and Business Startups

Javier Miranda, Bureau of the Census
Nikolas Zolas, Bureau of the Census     
Measuring the Impact of Household Innovation Using Non Employer Administrative Data

Discussant:  Scott Stern,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER       Slides

4:45 pm

CRIW Members Meeting

5:15 pm

Adjourn

5:30 pm

Reception and Dinner at Georgetown University Hotel & Conference Center (Salon FH)

Speaker: 25 minutes

Speaker: 
Eric von Hippel,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Household Innovation

Saturday, March 11

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

Improving Current Measurement Frameworks

9:00 am

Speakers: 15 minutes each, discussant 25 minutes

Chair: 
Dale Jorgenson

Pierre Mohnen, Maastricht University
Michael Polder, Statistics Netherlands
George van Leeuwen, Statistics Netherlands      Slides
ICT and Innovation

Wen Chen, University of Groningen
Bart Los, University of Groningen
Marcel Timmer, University of Groningen      Slides
Measuring the Returns to Intangibles: A Global Value Chain Approach

Alexis Grimm, Bureau of Economic Analysis      Slides
Trends in U.S. Trade in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Services and in ICT-Enabled Services

Discussant:  Bronwyn Hall, University of California at Berkeley and NBER      Slides

10:50 am

Break

11:20 am

Speaker: 20 minutes, discussant 12 minutes

Chair:  Kevin Fox

Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin      Slides
Has Moore’s Law Been Repealed? Empirical Analysis of Innovation in Semiconductors

Discussant: 
Stephen Oliner, American Enterprise Institute      Slides

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Speakers: 10 minutes each, discussant 20 minutes

Chair:  Diane Coyle


David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board
Carol Corrado, The Conference Board     Slides
Accounting for Innovation in Consumer Digital Services

David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board
Carol Corrado, The Conference Board
Daniel Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER      Slides
The Rise of Cloud Computing: Minding your P’s and Q’s

Ana Aizcorbe, Bureau of Economic Analysis
David Wasshausen, Bureau of Economic Analysis      Slides
BEA Deflators for Information and Communications Technology Goods and Services Historical Analyses and Future Plans

Discussant:  Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER      Slides

2:00 pm

Panel Discussion:  Next Steps

Ernst Berndt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER, Chair
Dennis Fixler, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Erica Groshen, Former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Ron Jarmin, Bureau of the Census
Scott Stern,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER      Slides

3:15 pm

Adjourn


Getting to the venue:

 

For those traveling locally via Lyft/Uber/taxi, please ask the driver to drop you off at the entrance to the Georgetown University Conference Center, 3800 Reservoir Road, NW.
The McDonough School's Rafik B. Hariri Building is accessible via the Conference Center.
For those traveling locally via car, CASH ONLY ($22/day) guest parking is available via the Canal Road entrance to Georgetown University (use 3611 Canal Road as the address for directions using GPS).