Tuesday, May 3

8:15 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

New Approaches to Medical Innovation

8:50 am

Accelerating Vaccine Innovation for Emerging Infectious Diseases via Parallel Discovery (slides)

Andrew W. Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

9:25 am

The Generic Drug Trilemma

Daniel Hemel, New York University
Lisa L. Ouellette, Stanford University

10:00 am

Break

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Clean Energy

10:15 am

Innovating to Net Zero: Can Venture Capital and Startups Play a Meaningful Role?

Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Silvia Dalla Fontana, USI Lugano and Swiss Finance Institute

10:50 am

Divestment or Investment: A Framework for Directing Green Innovation (slides)

Jacquelyn Pless, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:25 am

Break

Geographic and Racial Inequality in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

11:45 am

Racial Inequality in Capital Access for Innovative Firms (slides)

Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
David T. Robinson, Duke University and NBER

12:20 pm

Place-Based Productivity and Costs in Science

Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Simon Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Luncheon
Luncheon Speaker: Catherine Wolfram, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the Department of the Treasury