NBER Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy Conference
Organized by Benjamin Jones and Josh Lerner
Supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
May 18, 2023
Convene, Washington, DC, Zoom.us

Thursday, May 18

8:10 am

Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:50 am

Regional Innovation Systems

Jorge Guzman, Columbia University and NBER
Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER

9:25 am

Picking Winners or Propping Up Losers? Challenges of Chinese Industrial Policy (slides)

Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Guangwei Li, ShanghaiTech University

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Keynote
Ronnie Chatterji, National Economic Council, the White House

10:55 am

Retiring Old Capital to Foster Decarbonization (slides)

James M. Sallee, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

11:30 am

Break

11:40 am

Cryptic Regulation of Crypto-Tokens

Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER

12:15 pm

War and Science in Ukraine

Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and NBER
Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich

12:50 pm

Lunch