Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy
Organized by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
Supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
April 27, 2021
on Zoom.us

Tuesday, April 27

9:00 am

Mapping the Regions, Organizations & Individuals that drive Inclusion in the Innovation Economy (slides)

Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Mercedes Delgado, Copenhagen Business School

9:30 am

Funding Risky Research

Chiara Franzoni, Politecnico di Milano
Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER
Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven

10:00 am

Break

10:10 am

Gender and Racial Disparity in the Innovation Process

Lisa D. Cook, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

10:40 am

Crisis Innovation Policy from World War II to COVID-19

Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Bhaven N. Sampat, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

11:10 am

Break

11:20 am

Entrepreneurship in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the Business Formation Statistics (slides)

John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER

11:50 am

Vaccines and the Pandemic

Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER

12:20 pm

Informal Networking Break-Out Groups

12:45 pm

Adjoun