
	Tuesday, July 16
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am	How Social Structure Drives Innovation: Surname Diversity and Patents in U.S. History Max Posch, University of Exeter Jonathan Schulz, George Mason University Joseph Henrich, Harvard University Discussant: William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
10:20 am	How Does Industry Shape Academic Science? Evidence from “Million Dollar Plants” Hongyuan Xia, Cornell University Discussant: Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
11:10 am	Break
11:30 am	Race and Science Gaia Dossi, London School of Economics Discussant: David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Public R&D Spillovers and Productivity Growth Arnaud Dyevre, London School of Economics Discussant: Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
2:20 pm	The Returns to Government R&D: Evidence from U.S. Appropriations Shocks Andrew J. Fieldhouse, Texas A&M University Karel Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Discussant: Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
3:10 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Panel Discussion: Fiscal and Macroeconomic Aspects of Innovation and Productivity Policies Jason Furman, Harvard University Donald Marron, Urban Institute Catherine Rampell, Washington Post Moderator: Heidi Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn
5:30 pm	Reception in Ballroom Foyer
	Wednesday, July 17
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am	Innovation through Labor Mobility: Evidence from Non-Compete Agreements Kate Reinmuth, Stanford University Emma J. Rockall, Stanford University Discussant: Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER
10:20 am	The Effect of Inventor Mobility on Network Productivity Brit Sharoni, Harvard University Discussant: Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
11:10 am	Break
11:30 am	Welfare Gains from Product and Process Innovations: The Case of LCD Panels, 2001-2011 Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto Shoki Kusaka, Yale University Jeff Qiu, University of Guelph Tuyetanh L. Tran, Yale University Discussant: Kevin A. Bryan, University of Toronto
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:29 pm	Afternoon Joint Session with Entrepreneurship and Digital Economics and Artificial Intelligence Groups
1:30 pm	Finding Diamonds in the Rough: Data-Driven Opportunities and Pharmaceutical Innovation Matteo Tranchero, University of California, Berkeley Discussant: Ryan R. Hill, Northwestern University
2:10 PM	Automated Social Science: Language Models as Scientist and Subjects Benjamin S. Manning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kehang Zhu, Harvard University John J. Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Discussant: TBA
2:50 pm	Break
3:10 PM	Quantifying the Impact of AI on Productivity and Labor Demand: Evidence from U.S. Census Microdata Dean Alderucci, Carnegie Mellon University Sagar V. Baviskar, Carnegie Mellon University Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Nathan Goldschlag, U.S. Census Bureau Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University Andrew Runge, Duolingo Prasanna Tambe, University of Pennsylvania Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State Discussant: TBA
4:20 pm	Adjourn

Participants

James D. Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and NBER
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics
Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
Salome Aguilar Llanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rachel S. Anderson, Sloan Foundation
Martin Aragoneses, Harvard University
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
Dany Bahar, Brown University
John M. Barrios, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Antonin Bergeaud, HEC Paris
Benjamin Berger, Harvard University
Enrico Berkes, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Ernst R. Berndt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
James Bessen, Boston University
Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University and NBER
Serguey Braguinsky, University of Maryland and NBER
Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Kevin A. Bryan, University of Toronto
M. Diane Burton, Cornell University
Ian H. Calaway, Stanford University
Shelia Campbell, Congressional Budget Office
William M. Cockriel, University of Chicago
Gail Cohen, The National Academies of Sciences
Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University and NBER
Patrick Collard, University of California, Berkeley
David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
Mercedes Delgado, Copenhagen Business School
Gaia Dossi, London School of Economics
Jordan Dworkin, Federation of American Scientists
Arnaud Dyevre, London School of Economics
Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Evgenii Fadeev, Duke University
Joan Farre-Mensa, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Andrew J. Fieldhouse, Texas A&M University
April Franco, University of Toronto
Chiara Franzoni, Politecnico di Milano
Jason Furman, Harvard University
Jeffrey L. Furman, Boston University and NBER
Fabian Gaessler, Pompeu Fabra University
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
Donna K. Ginther, University of Kansas and NBER
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Nathan Goldschlag, U.S. Census Bureau
Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Jess Grana, MITRE Corporation
Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Charu N. Gupta, University of California, Los Angeles
Saloni Gupta, Columbia University
Jorge Guzman, Columbia 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
Matthew J. Higgins, University of Utah and NBER
Ryan R. Hill, Northwestern University
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Ruru Hoong, Harvard University
Erik Hovenkamp, Northwestern University
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
Tyler Jacobson, University of Chicago
William Janeway, University of Cambridge
Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics
Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
Jennifer L. Kao, University of California, Los Angeles
Dan Kashner, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Matthias Kehrig, Duke University and NBER
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
Soomi Kim, Columbia University
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Christopher R. Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Geoffrey Kocks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marlène Koffi, University of Toronto and NBER
Rembrand M. Koning, Harvard University
Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University
Shoki Kusaka, Yale University
Evgeniia Lambrinaki, Queen Mary University of London
Jorge A. Lemus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Jingnan Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Martin Lopez-Daneri, Temple University
Song Ma, Yale University and NBER
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER

Yifei Mao, Cornell University
Donald Marron, The Urban Institute
Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER
Roger Masclans, Duke University
Adrien Matray, Princeton University and NBER
Mark J. McCabe, SKEMA Business School
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
Karel Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University and NBER
Valerie Michelman, Brown University
Karen G. Mills, Harvard University
Andrea Mina, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa
Sara Moreira, Northwestern University and NBER
Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Kyle R. Myers, Harvard University and NBER
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Bitsy Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College and NBER
Jacquelyn Pless, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Max Posch, University of Exeter
Jeff Qiu, University of Guelph
Catherine Rampell, Washington Post
S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University
Lindsey R. Raymond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bryony Reich, Northwestern University
Kate Reinmuth, Stanford University
Pascual Restrepo, Boston University and NBER
Michael Roach, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mark J. Roberts, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Emma J. Rockall, Stanford University
Parker Rogers, National Bureau of Economic Research
Nancy L. Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Helena Roy, Stanford University
Matteo Ruzzante, Northwestern University
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Bhaven N. Sampat, Arizona State University and NBER
Sarada Sarada, University of California, Los Angeles
Henry Sauermann, European School of Management and Technology
Erin L. Scott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniela Scur, Cornell University
Robert Seamans, New York University
Ritika Sethi, Rice University
Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Brit Sharoni, Harvard University
Chad Shirley, Congressional Budget Office
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Christopher M. Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER
Alec Stapp, Institute for Progress
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
Xueping Sun, Stanford University
Karthik Tadepalli, University of California, Berkeley
Sixun Tang, University of Chicago
Valentina Tartari, Stockholm School of Economics
Florenta Teodoridis, University of Southern California
Wei Yang Tham, Harvard University
Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Matteo Tranchero, University of California, Berkeley
Francesca Truffa, Stanford University
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
Kartik Vira, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Iris Vrioni, University of Michigan
Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich
Dashun Wang, Northwestern University
Xizhao Wang, Northwestern University
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
Ashley Wong, Tilburg University
Ashley N. Wong, University of Southern California
Brian Wright, University of California, Berkeley
Greg Wright, University of California, Merced
Hongyuan Xia, Cornell University
Dennis Yao, Harvard University
Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Laurina Zhang, Boston University
Ran Zhuo, University of Michigan
Arvids A. Ziedonis, Boston University
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Boston University and NBER
Klaas de Vries, Statistics Netherlands