NBER Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy Meeting
Organized by Benjamin Jones and Josh Lerner
Supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
May 3, 2022
Washington, DC and on Zoom.us
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