
	Tuesday, July 17
8:15 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am	Introductions
9:00 am	The Problem of Fictional Data in Patents Janet Freilich, Fordham University Discussants: Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Stanford University
10:05 am	Developing Novel Drugs Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER Discussant: Margaret Kyle, MINES ParisTech
10:55 am	Break
11:15 am	Labor Scarcity, Finance, and Innovation: Evidence from Antebellum America Yifei Mao, Cornell University Jessie Jiaxu Wang, Arizona State University Discussant: Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER
12:05 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Hubs as Lampposts: Academic Location and Firms’ Attention to Science Michael Bikard, INSEAD Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER Discussant: Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
2:05 pm	Corruption, Government Subsidies, and Innovation: Evidence from China Lily Fang, INSEAD Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER Chaopeng Wu, Xiamen University Qi Zhang, Xiamen University Discussant: Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
2:55 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Panel: Gender and the Evaluation of Scientific Contributions Chair: Fiona Murray, MIT Sloan School of Management Presenters:
	Publishing while Female. Are Women Held to Higher Standards? Evidence from Peer Review. (slides) Erin Hengel, University College London, Social Research Institute
	Gender Differences in Recognition for Group Work Heather A. Sarsons, University of British Columbia and NBER
	Discussants/Commentators: Claudia Goldin, Harvard University and NBER Adam Jaffe, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research and NBER Heidi Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
4:45 pm	Adjourn
5:15 pm	Reception at the Royal Sonesta Hotel (Grand Ballroom Foyer)
	Wednesday, July 18
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	The Role of Universities in Local Invention: Evidence from the Establishment of U.S. Colleges Michael J. Andrews, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Discussant: Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
9:50 am	Universities and Science-Based Innovation in the Private Sector Martin Watzinger, University of Muenster Lukas Treber, University of Hohenheim Monika Schnitzer, University of Munich Discussant: Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:40 am	Break
11:10 am	Income Segregation and Rise of the Knowledge Economy Enrico Berkes, University of Maryland Baltimore County Ruben Gaetani, University of Toronto Discussant: Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	On The Direction of Innovation Hugo Hopenhayn, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Francesco Squintani, University of Warwick Discussant: Kevin A. Bryan, University of Toronto
2:20 pm	International Environmental Agreements and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the Ozone Regime Eugenie M. Dugoua, London School of Economics Discussant: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University
3:10 pm	Break
3:40 pm	Talent Matters: Evidence from Mathematics Ruchir Agarwal, Harvard Kennedy School Patrick Gaule, University of Bristol Discussant: John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
4:30 pm	Adjourn
	- Format: 50 minute presentation slots: 20 minutes for authors, 15 for discussants, 15 for Q&A

Participants

James D. Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and NBER
Ruchir Agarwal, Harvard Kennedy School
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics
Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
Ayfer Ali, Warwick University
Michael J. Andrews, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Thomas Astebro, HEC Paris
Julian Atanassov, University of Nebraska
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Dany Bahar, Brown University
Patrick L. Bajari, Keystone Strategy
Sandra Barbosu
Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
Anat Beck, New York University
Enrico Berkes, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Ernst R. Berndt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER
James Bessen, Boston University
Amar Bhide, Columbia University
Michael Bikard, INSEAD
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Margaret E. Blume-Kohout, Gettysburg College
Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University and NBER
Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Albert Bravo-Biosca, Innovation Growth Lab (IGL) & BSE
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University
Kevin A. Bryan, University of Toronto
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Luis Cabral, New York University
Christian Catalini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aaron Chatterji, Duke University and NBER
Thomas J. Chemmanur, Boston College
Jong-Rong Chen, National Central University
Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
Gail Cohen, The National Academies of Sciences
Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University and NBER
Diego A. Comin, Dartmouth College and NBER
Annamaria Conti, IE Business School
Jan De Loecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Mercedes Delgado, Copenhagen Business School
Paramveer Dhillon, University of Michigan
Kirk B. Doran, University of Notre Dame
Sean Dougherty, OECD
Eugenie Dugoua, London School of Economics
Lily Fang, INSEAD
Joan Farre-Mensa, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Josh Feng, University of Utah
Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin
Christian Fons-Rosen, University of California at Merced
Chris Forman, Cornell University
Andrea Fosfuri, Bocconi University
Kevin J. Fox, University of New South Wales
Chiara Franzoni, Politecnico di Milano
Barbara M. Fraumeni, Central University of Finance and Economics and NBER
Janet Freilich, Fordham University
Erica Fuchs, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Jeffrey L. Furman, Boston University and NBER
Ruben Gaetani, University of Toronto
Alberto Galasso, University of Toronto and NBER
Bernhard Ganglmair, ZEW Mannheim
Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER
Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Patrick Gaulé, University of Bristol
Michelle Gittelman, Rutgers University
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University and NBER
Paul Gompers, Harvard University and NBER
Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago
Robert J. Gordon, Northwestern University and NBER
Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Stuart Graham, Georgia Institute of Technology
Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
Jillian Grennan, Emory University
Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Umit Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER
Dietmar Harhoff, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Naomi Hausman, Hebrew University
Misty L. Heggeness, University of Kansas
Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University and NBER
Erin Hengel, University College London, Social Research Institute
Matthew J. Higgins, University of Utah and NBER
Jonas Hjort, University College London
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Hugo Hopenhayn, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
David H. Hsu, University of Pennsylvania
Charles R. Hulten, University of Maryland and NBER
Robert Hunt, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
David Hémous, University of Zurich
Alessandro Iaria, University of Bristol
Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER
William Janeway, University of Cambridge
Ron S. Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
Gary H. Jefferson, Brandeis University
Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
Paul Joskow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Shulamit Kahn, Boston University
Steven N. Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
Wonjoon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Leonid Kogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University
Elisabeth Kremp, Banque de France DGSER and NBER
Tobias Kretschmer, LMU Munich
Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University
Karthik Krishnan, Northeastern University
Margaret Kyle, MINES ParisTech
Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Andrew W. Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Michael Luca, Harvard University and NBER
Hong Luo, Harvard University
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Jacques Mairesse, CREST-ENSAE and NBER
Yifei Mao, Cornell University
Gerald R. Marschke, State University of New York at Albany and NBER
Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER
Mark J. McCabe, SKEMA Business School
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
Erin L. McGuire, Mondelez International
Mike Meurer, Boston University
Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia and NBER
Karen G. Mills, Harvard University
Seongwuk Moon, Sogang University
Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Debarshi Nandy, Brandeis University
Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Northwestern University
Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Stanford University
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University and NBER
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER
Bitsy Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
Neviana Petkova, Department of the Treasury
S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University
Bryony Reich, Northwestern University
Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Roach, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Carol Robbins, National Science Foundation
David T. Robinson, Duke University and NBER
Marc Rysman, Boston University
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Sarada Sarada, University of California, Los Angeles
Heather Sarsons, University of British Columbia and NBER
Henry Sauermann, European School of Management and Technology
Mike Scherer, Harvard University
Fabiano Schivardi, Luiss Guido Carli University
Richard Schmalensee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monika Schnitzer, University of Munich
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Erin L. Scott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Seamans, New York University
Carlos J. Serrano, HEC Paris
Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
Pian Shu, Harvard University
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Christopher M. Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER
Ariel Dora Stern, Hasso Plattner Institute
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Neel Sukhatme, Georgetown University
Haris Tabakovic, The Brattle Group
Valentina Tartari, Stockholm School of Economics
Florenta Teodoridis, University of Southern California
Richard T. Thakor, University of Minnesota
Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Thompson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jerry Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology
Marie C. Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Otto Toivanen, Aalto University
Andrew Toole, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Richard R. Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University and NBER
Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
Stefan Wagner, ESMT Berlin
Simon Wakeman, New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich
Martin Watzinger, University of Muenster
Michael D. Whinston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Brad Wible, Science Magazine
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER
Sheryl Winston Smith, BI Norwegian Business School
Thomas G. Wollmann, University of Chicago and NBER
Christopher Woodruff, University of Oxford
Brian Wright, University of California, Berkeley
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
Dennis Yao, Harvard University
Laurina Zhang, Boston University
Arvids A. Ziedonis, Boston University
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Boston University and NBER
John M. de Figueiredo, Duke University and NBER