
	Tuesday, July 19
9:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am	The Returns to Face-to-Face Interactions: Knowledge Spillovers in Silicon Valley David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER M. Keith Chen, University of California at Los Angeles Anton Popov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Discussant: Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:20 am	Tickets to the Global Market: First U.S. Patents and Chinese Firm Exports Kaiji Gong, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Yao Amber Li, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Kalina Manova, University College London Teng Sun, Stanford University Discussant: Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
11:10 am	Break
11:30 am	Social Push and the Direction of Innovation Elias Einiö, London School of Economics Josh Feng, University of Utah Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics Discussant: Kyle R. Myers, Harvard University and NBER
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:20 pm	The Effect of Funding Delays on the Research Workforce: Evidence From Tax Records Stephanie D. Cheng, Edgeworth Economics Elisabeth Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau Joseph Staudt, U.S. Census Bureau Wei Yang Tham, Harvard University Discussant: Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
2:10 pm	Innovation Networks and R&D Allocation Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER Song Ma, Yale University and NBER Discussant: William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Panel discussion: Challenges and Opportunities in Translating Innovation Research into Policy Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development Daniel Correa, Federation of American Scientists Douglas Elmendorf, Harvard University Daniel Goroff, Sloan Foundation Caleb Watney, Institute for Progress Moderator: Heidi Williams, Stanford University and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn
	Wednesday, July 20
9:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am	Intellectual Property Protection Lost and Competition: An Examination Using Machine Learning Utku A. Acikalin, TOBB University of Economics and Technology Tolga Caskurlu, University of Amsterdam Gerard Hoberg, University of Southern California Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College and NBER
	A Deep Learning Approach to Quantify the Innovativeness and Future Impact of New Technology and Science (slides) Sourav Medya, Northwestern University Ryan Whalen, University of Hong Kong Tara Sowrirajan, Northwestern University Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University Discussants: Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER James Zou, Stanford University
11:10 am	Break
11:30 am	Creative Construction: Knowledge Sharing in Production Networks Evgenii Fadeev, Duke University Discussant: Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:20 pm	Undergraduate Gender Diversity and Direction of Scientific Research Francesca Truffa, Stanford University Ashley Wong, Tilburg University Discussant: David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
2:10 pm	Sex, Drugs, and R&D: Missing Innovation from Regulating Female Enrollment in Clinical Trials Valerie Michelman, Brown University Lucy Msall, University of Chicago Discussant: Ariel Dora Stern, Hasso Plattner Institute
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Closing the Gender Gap in Patenting: Evidence from a Randomized Control trial at the USPTO Nicholas Pairolero, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Andrew Toole, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Peter-Anthony Pappas, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Charles A. deGrazia, EMLV Mike H. Teodorescu, University of Washington Discussant: Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Stanford University
4:20 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Tuna Abay, European University Institute
Utku U. Acikalin, TOBB University of Economics and Technology
James D. Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and NBER
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics
Michael J. Andrews, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER
Thomas Astebro, HEC Paris
David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
Seung Youn Baek, New York University
Dany Bahar, Brown University
Sandra Barbosu
John M. Barrios, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Erling Barth, Institute for Social Research and NBER
Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
Sharon Belenzon, Duke University and NBER
Antonin Bergeaud, HEC Paris
Benjamin Berger, Harvard University
Enrico Berkes, University of Maryland Baltimore County
James Bessen, Boston University
Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development
Margaret E. Blume-Kohout, Gettysburg College
Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University and NBER
Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Jean-Felix Brouillette, Stanford University
Kevin A. Bryan, University of Toronto
April Burrage, Stanford University
Agnes Cameron, Knowledge Futures Group
Christoph Carnehl, Bocconi University
Tolga Caskurlu, University of Amsterdam
Stephanie D. Cheng, Edgeworth Economics
Sukwoong Choi, University at Albany, State University of New York
Matthew S. Clancy, Open Philanthropy
Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University and NBER
Annamaria Conti, IE Business School
Daniel Correa, Federation of American Scientists
David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
Mercedes Delgado, Copenhagen Business School
David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
Eric Donald, University of Pittsburgh
Gaia Dossi, London School of Economics
Eugenie Dugoua, London School of Economics
Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Evgenii Fadeev, Duke University
Joan Farre-Mensa, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Josh Feng, University of Utah
Lee Fleming, University of California, Berkeley
Christian Fons-Rosen, University of California at Merced
Chris Forman, Cornell University
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
Patrick Gaulé, University of Bristol
Donna K. Ginther, University of Kansas and NBER
Britta Glennon, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Robin Gong, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
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
Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Charu N. Gupta, University of California, Los Angeles
Harsh Gupta, Stanford University
Bronwyn H. Hall, University of California, Berkeley 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
Matthew J. Higgins, University of Utah and NBER
Ryan R. Hill, Northwestern University
Jonas Hjort, University College London
Gerard Hoberg, University of Southern California
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
David H. Hsu, University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University and NBER
David Hémous, University of Zurich
Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER
William Janeway, University of Cambridge
Ron S. Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
Shawn Kantor, Florida State University and NBER
Jennifer L. Kao, University of California, Los Angeles
Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
Samuel J. Klein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Christopher R. Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Marlène Koffi, University of Toronto and NBER
Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University
Rembrand M. Koning, Harvard University
Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University
Margaret Kyle, MINES ParisTech
Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto and NBER
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Yale University and NBER
Jorge A. Lemus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Todd Lensman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Yao Amber Li, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER
Hong Luo, Harvard University
Song Ma, Yale University and NBER

Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Jacques Mairesse, CREST-ENSAE and NBER
Kalina Manova, University College London
Yifei Mao, Cornell University
Gerald R. Marschke, State University of New York at Albany and NBER
Guillermo Marshall, University of British Columbia
Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER
Adrien Matray, Princeton University and NBER
Mark J. McCabe, SKEMA Business School
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Oscar A. Mendez, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Mike Meurer, Boston University
Valerie Michelman, Brown University
Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia and NBER
Karen G. Mills, Harvard University
Sara Moreira, Northwestern University and NBER
Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jacob Moscona, Harvard University
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
Lucy Msall, University of Chicago
Kyle R. Myers, Harvard University and NBER
Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Joseph P. Newhouse, Harvard University and NBER
Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Northwestern University
Hiroaki Niihara, Hitotsubashi University
Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Lauri K. Ojala, Columbia University
Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Stanford University
Derek Ozkal, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Nicholas Pairolero, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University and NBER
Bitsy Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
Neviana Petkova, Department of the Treasury
Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College and NBER
Jacquelyn Pless, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Popp, Syracuse University and NBER
Yi Qian, University of British Columbia and NBER
Hedieh Rashidi Ranjbar, University of Michigan
S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University
Kate Reinmuth, Stanford University
Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER
Cesare Righi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Ljubica Ristovska, Yale University
Michael Roach, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Maria P. Roche, Harvard University
Emma J. Rockall, Stanford University
Nancy L. Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Iowa State University and NBER
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Bhaven N. Sampat, Arizona State 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
Monika Schnitzer, University of Munich
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
Jieun Shin, University of Toronto
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Christopher M. Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER
Tara Sowrirajan, Northwestern University
Alec Stapp, Institute for Progress
Joseph Staudt, U.S. Census Bureau
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
Valentina Tartari, Stockholm School of Economics
Mike H. Teodorescu, University of Washington
Florenta Teodoridis, University of Southern California
Stephen J. Terry, University of Michigan and NBER
Wei Yang Tham, Harvard University
Neil Thompson, Massachusetts 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
Richard R. Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Francesca Truffa, Stanford University
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
Carmen Villa, University of Warwick
Hayley Wabiszewski, Washington University in St. Louis
Simon Wakeman, New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich
Dashun Wang, Northwestern University
Jingyuan Wang, Northwestern University
Zhenxuan Wang, Duke University
Caleb Watney, Institute for Progress
Martin Watzinger, University of Muenster
Bruce A. Weinberg, The Ohio State University and NBER
Alexander T. Whalley, University of Calgary
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
Ashley Wong, Tilburg University
Brian Wright, University of California, Berkeley
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
Jiajie Xu, University of Iowa
Jing Xue, Georgia State University
Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Pai-Ling Yin, Amazon
Erina Ytsma, Carnegie Mellon University
Helen Shuxuan Zeng, Carnegie Mellon University
Laurina Zhang, Boston University
Arvids A. Ziedonis, Boston University
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Boston University and NBER
James Zou, Stanford University
John M. de Figueiredo, Duke University and NBER
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne