
	Friday, March 10
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Introductions
	Gender and Innovation
9:05 am	Inventor Gender and Patent Undercitation: Evidence from Causal Text Estimation Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER Ali Kakhbod, University of California, Berkeley Peiyao Li, University of California, Berkeley Kunal Sachdeva, University of Michigan
	R&D Investment Decisions
9:50 am	Research and/or Development? Financial Frictions and Innovation Investment Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University and NBER Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
10:35 am	Break
10:55 am	Evaluation and Learning in R&D Investment Alexander P. Frankel, University of Chicago Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER
	Human Capital Reallocation
11:40 am	Human Capital Reallocation and Agglomeration of Innovation: Evidence from Technological Breakthroughs Jing Xue, Georgia State University
12:25 pm	Lunch - Somerset Room
1:25 pm	Labor Mobility, Entrepreneurship, and Firm Monopsony: Evidence from Immigration Wait-Lines Abhinav Gupta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2:10 pm	Break
	Innovation and Public Policy
2:30 pm	The Breakup of the Bell System and its Impact on US Innovation Martin Watzinger, University of Muenster Monika Schnitzer, University of Munich
3:15 pm	Unleashing the Dragon: The Case for Patent Reform in China Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Douglas Hanley, University of Pittsburgh Huiyan Zhang, Tsinghua University
4:00 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
Serguey Braguinsky, University of Maryland and NBER
Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Yuheng Ding, The World Bank
Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Christopher Esposito, University of Chicago
Jonathan Feinstein, Yale University
Jeffrey L. Furman, Boston University and NBER
Britta Glennon, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Abhinav Gupta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jorge Guzman, Columbia University and NBER
Douglas Hanley, University of Pittsburgh
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
Ali Kakhbod, University of California, Berkeley

Jennifer L. Kao, University of California, Los Angeles
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Peiyao Li, University of California, Berkeley
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Adrien Matray, Princeton University and NBER
Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University and NBER
Kyle R. Myers, Harvard University and NBER
Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Kunal Sachdeva, University of Michigan
Monika Schnitzer, University of Munich
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Stephen J. Terry, University of Michigan and NBER
Martin Watzinger, University of Muenster
Jing Xue, Georgia State University
Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania and NBER