NBER Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy Conference

Benjamin Jones and Josh Lerner, Organizers

May 18, 2023

Convene, Washington, DC, Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, May 18
8:10 am
Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:50 am
Jorge Guzman, Columbia University and NBER
Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER

Regional Innovation Systems
9:25 am
Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Guangwei Li, ShanghaiTech University

Picking Winners or Propping Up Losers? Challenges of Chinese Industrial Policy (slides)
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Keynote
Ronnie Chatterji, National Economic Council, the White House
10:55 am
James M. Sallee, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Retiring Old Capital to Foster Decarbonization (slides)
11:30 am
Break
11:40 am
Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER

Cryptic Regulation of Crypto-Tokens
12:15 pm
Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER
Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich

War and Science in Ukraine
12:50 pm
Lunch