Friday, December 3

4:00 pm

Welcome and Introductions
Adam Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER

4:15 pm

Text Analysis

The Rise of Process Claims: Evidence from a Century of U.S. Patents (slides)

Bernhard Ganglmair, ZEW Mannheim
W. Keith Robinson, Wake Forest Univesity
Michael Seeligson, Southern Methodist University

Modeling Patent Clarity

Jonathan Ashtor, Yeshiva University

Technology Differentiation and Firm Performance (slides)

Sam Arts, KU Leuven
Bruno Cassiman, IESE
Jianan Hou, KU Leuven

5:30 pm

Building a Replacement for the Microsoft Academic Graph

Introducing OpenAlex

Heather Piwowar, OurResearch
Jason Priem, OurResearch

6:00 pm

Adjourn

Saturday, December 4

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Prototype Innovation Data Portal
Agnes Cameron, Knowledge Futures Group (slides)

9:30 am

Firms

Measuring Firms' Technology Use with Employees' Job Data: Application to Artificial Intelligence Technologies (slides)

Tania Babina, University of Maryland and NBER
Anastassia Fedyk, University of California at Berkeley
Alex Xi He, University of Maryland
James Hodson, AI for Good

Matching Patent Assignees to Startups

Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER
Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER

10:30 am

Break

10:45 am

Competition

Intellectual Property Theft (slides)

Britta Glennon, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Lia Sheer, Tel-Aviv University

U.S. Entrepreneurship over the Long-run (slides)

Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Jorge Guzman, Columbia University and NBER
Innessa Colaiacovo, Harvard University

11:45 am

Patent-Paper Pairs
Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER

12:15 pm

Lunch (Charles Suites) and Adjourn