NBER Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy Conference
Organized by Benjamin Jones and Josh Lerner
May 1, 2024
National Press Club, 529 14th Street, N.W., Washington DC

Wednesday, May 1

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:59 am

The AI Revolution

9:00 am

Market Structure and Generative AI

Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University
Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

9:35 am

Government as Venture Capitalists in AI

David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER

10:10 am

Intellectal Property and Creative Machines (slides)

Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

Break

10:48 am

R&D Funding Models

11:00 am

Can Operation Warp Speed Serve as a Model for Accelerating Innovations Beyond Covid Vaccines?

Arielle D'Souza, Institute for Progress
Christopher M. Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER

11:35 am

Designing Scientific Grants (slides)

Christoph Carnehl, Bocconi University
Marco Ottaviani, Bocconi University
Justus Preusser, Bocconi University

Break

12:20 pm

Technical Labor Force

12:25 pm

Meeting U.S. Defense Science and Engineering Workforce Needs: A Progress Report

Amy Nice, Institute for Progress

1:00 pm

Keynote: Jason Matheny, RAND
Research Questions Around Innovation Policy

This presentation will only be available to in-person participants

Wrap-up