Innovation Information Initiative Technical Working Group Meeting

Adam B. Jaffe, Organizer

December 1-2, 2023

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Parkview Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, December 1
4:00 pm
Welcome and introductions, Adam Jaffe
4:15 pm
Science and invention
Lee Owen Fleming, University of California, Berkeley
Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER
Emma Scharfmann, University of California, Berkeley

Matching Scientists and Inventors
Roger Masclans Armengol, Duke University
Sharique Hasan, Duke University
Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University and NBER

The Commercial Potential of Science and its Realization: Evidence from a Measure Using a Large Language Model
Kyle R. Myers, Harvard University and NBER
Wei Yang Tham, University of Toronto

New Facts and Data about Professors and their Research
5:45 pm
Adjourn
6:15 pm
Dinner - Royal Sonesta Hotel, Somerset Room
Saturday, December 2
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Reports on Tools
Agnes Cameron, Knowledge Futures Group

Index and Validation Datasets (slides)
Erik Buunk, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Sebastian Erhardt, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Mainak Gosh, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Dietmar Harhoff, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Michael E. Rose, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

Logic Mill - A Knowledge Navigation System
Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER
Sharon Belenzon, Duke University and NBER
Larisa C. Cioaca, Duke University
Lia Sheer, Tel-Aviv University
Dror Shvadron, Fuqua School of Business

DISCERN 2.0: Extending and Enhancing the DISCERN Dataset
10:00 am
Patenting Firms
Yuheng Ding, The World Bank
Karam Jo, Korea Development Institute
Seula Kim, Pennsylvania State University

Improving Patent Assignee-Firm Bridge with Web Search Results (slides)
Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Bhaven N. Sampat, Arizona State University and NBER

The Government Patent Register: A New Lens on Historical U.S. Government-Funded Patenting
Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER

Startup Patenting
11:30 am
Break
11:45 am
Fellows presentations
Alexander Kann, University of Mannheim
Bernardo Dionisi, Duke University
Saqib Mumtaz, University of California, Berkeley
Maya Durvasula, Stanford University
1:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Adjourn