Innovation Policy and the Economy 2018
Organized by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
Supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
April 17, 2018
Newseum, Knight Conference Center, 7th Floor, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

Tuesday, April 17

8:00 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 am

The IT Revolution and the Globalization of R&D

Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Britta Glennon, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
J. Bradford Jenson, Georgetown University and NBER

9:10 am

Innovating in a Global Economy

Pian Shu, Sight Sphere
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

9:50 am

Break

10:05 am

Funding Breakthrough Research: Promises and Challenges of the “ARPA Model”

Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Erica Fuchs, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Michael Kearney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anna Goldstein, Prime Coalition

10:45 am

The Orphan Drug Act at 35: An Outlook for the 21st Century

Nicholas Bagley, University of Michigan
Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER
Craig Garthwaite, Northwestern University and NBER
Ariel Dora Stern, Hasso Plattner Institute

11:25 am

Break

11:40 am

The Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER

12:20 pm

Artificial Intelligence and the Economy

Jason Furman, Harvard University
Robert Seamans, New York University

1:00 pm

Luncheon

2:30 pm

Adjourn