
	Tuesday, July 16
8:15 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am	Introductions
9:00 am	The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER Discussant: Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich
9:50 am	Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws Bernhard Ganglmair, ZEW Mannheim Imke C. Reimers, Cornell University Discussant: Kevin A. Bryan, University of Toronto
10:40 am	Break
11:10 am	Are "Complementary Policies" Substitutes? Evidence from R&D Subsidies in the UK Jacquelyn Pless, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Discussant: Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Immigration and Invention: Evidence from the Quota Acts (slides) Kirk B. Doran, University of Notre Dame Chungeun Yoon, University of Notre Dame Discussant: Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
1:50 pm	How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled Immigration Affect Offshoring? Evidence from the H-1B Program Britta M. Glennon, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Discussant: Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER
2:40 pm	The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Beatriz Pousada, Stanford University Discussant: Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics
3:30 pm	Break
3:50 pm	Panel: National Leadership in Innovation: Is It Changing, and Does It Matter? Chair: Philippe Aghion, College de France Panelists: Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Erica Fuchs, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel Aviv University and NBER John Van Reenen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
5:10 pm	Adjourn
5:15 pm	Reception at the Royal Sonesta Hotel (Grand Ballroom Foyer)
	Wednesday, July 17
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	When does Product Liability Risk Chill Innovation? Evidence from Medical Implants Alberto Galasso, University of Toronto and NBER Hong Luo, Harvard University Discussant: Craig Garthwaite, Northwestern University and NBER
9:50 am	Recalls, Innovation and Competitor Response: Evidence from Medical Device Firms (slides) George P. Ball, Indiana University Jeffrey Macher, Georgetown University Ariel Dora Stern, Hasso Plattner Institute Discussant: Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
10:40 am	Break
11:10 am	Patents to Products: Innovation and Firm Performance David O. Argente, Yale University and NBER Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Douglas Hanley, University of Pittsburgh Sara Moreira, Northwestern University and NBER Discussant: Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Stem Careers and the Changing Skill Requirements of Work David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER Kadeem L. Noray, Harvard University Discussant: Bruce A. Weinberg, The Ohio State University and NBER
2:20 pm	Learning When to Quit: An Empirical Model of Experimentation in Standards Development (slides) Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER Bernhard Ganglmair, ZEW Mannheim Emanuele Tarantino, LUISS and EIEF Discussant: Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
3:10 pm	Break
3:40 pm	Is Development Innovation a Good Investment? Which Innovations Scale? Evidence from USAID's Development Innovation Ventures Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER Olga Rostapshova, Social Impact Sasha Gallant Milan A. Thomas, Asian Development Bank Discussant: Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University 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
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics
Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
Michael J. Andrews, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
David Argente, Yale University and NBER
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Astou Aw, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ivan Badinski, Amazon
Dany Bahar, Brown University
Sandra Barbosu
Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Sharon Belenzon, Duke University and NBER
Jordan Bell-Masterson, Amazon
Antonin Bergeaud, HEC Paris
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
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
Christian Catalini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jong-Rong Chen, National Central University
Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University and NBER
Annamaria Conti, IE Business School
Mercedes Delgado, Copenhagen Business School
David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
Kirk B. Doran, University of Notre Dame
Eugenie Dugoua, London School of Economics
Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
Joan Farre-Mensa, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin
Lee Fleming, University of California, Berkeley
Roberto Fontana, University of Pavia
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
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
Britta Glennon, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago
Robert J. Gordon, Northwestern University and NBER
Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Umit Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Douglas Hanley, University of Pittsburgh
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER
Dietmar Harhoff, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Naomi Hausman, Hebrew University
Deepak Hegde, New York University
Misty L. Heggeness, University of Kansas
Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University and NBER
Matthew J. Higgins, University of Utah and NBER
Ryan R. Hill, Northwestern University
Jonas Hjort, University College London
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
Leonardo Iacovone, The World Bank
Alessandro Iaria, University of Bristol
Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER
William Janeway, University of Cambridge
Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
Paul Joskow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Shulamit Kahn, Boston University
Matthias Kehrig, Duke University and NBER
Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
Wonjoon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER
Elisabeth Kremp, Banque de France DGSER and NBER

Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Andrew W. Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Hong Luo, Harvard University
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Jeffrey Macher, Georgetown University
Jacques Mairesse, CREST-ENSAE and NBER
Astrid Marinoni, Georgia Tech
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
Denis Medvedev, The World Bank
Mike Meurer, Boston University
Karen G. Mills, Harvard University
Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University
Sara Moreira, Northwestern University and NBER
Arnobio Morelix, Startup Genome
Char-Lee Moyle, Queensland University of Technology
Kyle R. Myers, Harvard University and NBER
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Debarshi Nandy, Brandeis University
Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Northwestern University
Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Tamar Oostrom, The Ohio State University and NBER
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University and NBER
Bitsy Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
Neviana Petkova, Department of the Treasury
Jacquelyn Pless, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yi Qian, University of British Columbia and NBER
S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University
Imke Reimers, Cornell University
Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Roach, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Bhaven N. Sampat, Arizona State University and NBER
Sarada Sarada, University of California, Los Angeles
Amir Sariri, Purdue University
Mike Scherer, Harvard University
Fabiano Schivardi, Luiss Guido Carli University
Monika Schnitzer, University of Munich
Erin L. Scott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carlos J. Serrano, HEC Paris
Lia Sheer, Tel-Aviv University
Pian Shu, Harvard University
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Christopher M. Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER
Carolyn Stein, University of California, Berkeley
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
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
Emanuele Tarantino, LUISS and EIEF
Valentina Tartari, Stockholm School of Economics
Florenta Teodoridis, University of Southern California
Richard T. Thakor, University of Minnesota
Peter Thompson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jerry Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology
Marie C. Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Andrew Toole, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel Aviv University 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
Bruce A. Weinberg, The Ohio State University and NBER
Alexander T. Whalley, University of Calgary
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
Chungeun Yoon, University of Notre Dame
Laurina Zhang, Boston University
Arvids A. Ziedonis, Boston University
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Boston University and NBER
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne