Thursday, July 16
10:30 am
Welcome
Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER and Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven
10:45 am
Session I, Open Science
Chair: Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Decomposing the “Tacit Knowledge Problem:” Codification of Knowledge and Access in CRISPR Gene-Editing

Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Samantha Zyontz, Boston University

The Impacts of Open Access on Scientists, Inventors, and the Public (slides)

Joseph Staudt, U.S. Census Bureau
Discussants: Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
                       Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Comments:  Ron Vale, Vice President and Executive Director, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
12:15 pm
Break
12:30 pm
Panel: How Covid-19 is Impacting Research
Chair: Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER
Greg Petsko, Brigham and Women's Hospital (slides)
Opening Remarks

John Hill, Director, National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory (slides)
Michael Lauer, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, NIH
Helga Nowotny, ETH Zurich and former Presisdent ERC
1:30 pm
Break
1:40 pm
Session II: Selection of Fellowships
Chair: Dashun Wang, Northwestern University

Administrative Discretion in Scientific Funding: Evidence from a Prestigious Postdoctoral Training Program

Donna K. Ginther, University of Kansas and NBER
Misty L. Heggeness, University of Kansas

Discussants:
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Partha Bhattacharyya, National Institutes of Health
2:30 pm
Session III: Science of Science Funded Small Projects
Chair: Kaye Husbands Fealing, Georgia Institute of Technology

The Color of Money: Federal vs. Industry Funding of University Research

Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
Alex X. He, University of Maryland
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
Elisabeth Ruth Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
Joseph Staudt, U.S. Census Bureau
Foundation Perspective: Andrea P. Belz, National Science Foundation

What Matters in Funding: The Value of Research Coherence and Alignment in Evaluators’ Decisions

Charles Ayoubi, Laboratory for Innovation Sciences at Harvard
Sandra Barbosu Michele Pezzoni, Université Côte d'Azur
Fabiana Visentin, Maastricht University
Foundation Perspective: Sandra Barbosu, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Short Presentations
Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Foundation Perspective: Stephanie Counch, Executive Director of Lemelson-MIT
Marco Ottaviani, Bocconi University
Foundation Perspective: Christian Bjerke, Bocconi University
Caroline Fry, Massachusettts Insitute of Technology
Jeffrey L. Furman, Boston University and NBER
Foundation Perspective: Erin Johnson, OWSD
3:30 pm
Wrapping Up and Looking Forward
Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven and Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER