
	Thursday, July 22
9:30 am	Welcome, Paula Stephan and Reinhilde Veugelers Adam Falk, President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
9:45 am	Session 1: Teams
	Mixed-Gender Teams Produce More Innovative and Influential Scientific Ideas Yang Yang, Northwestern University Teresa Woodruff, Northwestern University Yuan Tian, New York University Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University
	Research Funding and Collaboration (slides) Benjamin Davies, Stanford University Jason Gush, Royal Society of New Zealand Shaun C. Hendy, University of Auckland Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER
	Discussants: Rikke Nørding Christensen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University and NBER Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:45 am	Session 2: Direction of research
	Political Pressure and the Direction of Research: Evidence from China’s Academia Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER Jie Zhou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Industry-Funded Research and Bias in Food Science Anita Rao, Georgetown University
	When Citizens Judge Science: Evaluations of Social Impact and Support for Research Chiara Franzoni, Politecnico di Milano Henry Sauermann, European School of Management and Technology Diletta Di Marco, Politecnico di Milano
	Discussants Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University and NBER Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst Chonnettia Jones, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
12:15 pm	Break
12:30 pm	Ways to Fund Scientists
	Chair: Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER Panel members: Erica Fuchs, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Katalin Karikó, Senior Vice President RNA Protein Replacement Therapies, BioNTech Bhaven N. Sampat, Columbia University and NBER Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel Aviv University and NBER
1:30 pm	Break
1:40 pm	Session 3: The Publishing Game
	Editors are Gatekeepers of Science, but Individual Editors Don’t Matter Much Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University Kyle R. Myers, Harvard University and NBER Ariel Dora Stern, Hasso Plattner Institute
	Discussants: Carolyn Stein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Brad Wible, Science Magazine
2:10 pm	Session 4: Science of Science Funding (SSF) Supported Research
	When Do Migrants Build Global Networks? Evidence from Female Scientists in a South South Fellowship Program Caroline Fry, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Jeffrey L. Furman, Boston University and NBER
	Discussant: Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
3:00 pm	Announcements of other initiatives of relevance for SSF Community Reinhilde Veugelers
3:15 pm	Concluding comments Paula Stephan and Reinhilde Veugelers
3:30 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER
Charles Ayoubi, Laboratory for Innovation Sciences at Harvard
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
Sandra Barbosu
Stefano Baruffaldi, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Peter Q. Blair, Harvard University and NBER
Sydella Blatch, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Amy Brand, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April Burrage, Stanford University
Stephanie D. Cheng, Edgeworth Economics
Rikke Nørding Christensen, Novo Nordisk Foundation
Janell Ciemiecki, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University and NBER
Kara Coleman, V Foundation
Lisa D. Cook, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Alberto Corsini, Université Côte d'Azur
Mark Daley, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Benjamin Davies, Stanford University
Mathias Dewatripont, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Diletta Di Marco, Politecnico di Milano
Adam Falk, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Lee Fleming, University of California, Berkeley
Henrik Barslund Fosse, Novo Nordisk Foundation
Chiara Franzoni, Politecnico di Milano
Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University and NBER
Caroline Fry, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Erica Fuchs, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Jeffrey L. Furman, Boston University and NBER
Fabian Gaessler, Pompeu Fabra University
Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER
Kumar Garg, Schmidt Futures
Patrick Gaulé, University of Bristol
Donna K. Ginther, University of Kansas and NBER
Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Fiona Griffin, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Massimiliano Guerini, Politecnico di Milano
Jorge Guzman, Columbia University and NBER
Dietmar Harhoff, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Alex X. He, University of Maryland
Misty L. Heggeness, University of Kansas
Ryan R. Hill, Northwestern University
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
Kaye G. Husbands, Georgia Institute of Technology
Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER
Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
Chonnettia Jones, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
Shulamit Kahn, Boston University
Diana Kardia, Kardia Group
Katalin Karikó, BioNTech
Salman Khan, U.S. Department of Education
Julian Kolev, US Patent and Trademark Office
Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University
David Lang, Experiment Foundation

Marc J. Lerchenmueller, University of Mannheim
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Kate Lowry, Science Philanthropy Alliance
Jacques Mairesse, CREST-ENSAE and NBER
Marc Malandro, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER
Evan Michelson, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Stasa Milojevic, Indiana University Bloomington
Evan Miyazano, Protocol
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Kyle R. Myers, Harvard University and NBER
Helga Nowotny, ETH Zurich
Marco Ottaviani, Bocconi University
Kristin Oxley, Research Council of Norway
Avital Percher, National Science Foundation
Bitsy Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
Michele Pezzoni, Université Côte d'Azur
Jacquelyn Pless, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anita Rao, Georgetown University
Bhaven N. Sampat, Arizona State University and NBER
Henry Sauermann, European School of Management and Technology
Johannes Schneider, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Monika Schnitzer, University of Munich
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Joseph Staudt, U.S. Census Bureau
Carolyn Stein, University of California, Berkeley
Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER
Ariel Dora Stern, Hasso Plattner Institute
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Valentina Tartari, Stockholm School of Economics
Misha Teplitskiy, University of Michigan
Wei Yang Tham, Harvard University
Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marie C. Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Yuan Tian, New York University
Andrew Toole, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel Aviv University and NBER
Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
Fabiana Visentin, Maastricht University
Dashun Wang, Northwestern University
Jian Wang, Lancaster University Leipzig
Martin Watzinger, University of Muenster
Bruce A. Weinberg, The Ohio State University and NBER
James W. Weis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brad Wible, Science Magazine
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER
James Wilsdon, University of Sheffield
Christoph Wolf, Bocconi University
Cindy Wu, Experiment.com
Moqi Xu, University of London
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER
Yang Yang, Northwestern University
Jie Zhou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Arvids A. Ziedonis, Boston University
Samantha Zyontz, Boston University