Innovation Policy and the Economy 2018

Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, Organizers

April 17, 2018

Newseum, Knight Conference Center, 7th Floor, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, April 17
8:00 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Britta Glennon, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
J. Bradford Jenson, Georgetown University and NBER

The IT Revolution and the Globalization of R&D
9:10 am
Pian Shu, Harvard University
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Innovating in a Global Economy
9:50 am
Break
10:05 am
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Erica Fuchs, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Michael Kearney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anna Goldstein, Prime Coalition

Funding Breakthrough Research: Promises and Challenges of the “ARPA Model”
10:45 am
Nicholas Bagley, University of Michigan
Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER
Craig Garthwaite, Northwestern University and NBER
Ariel Dora Stern, Hasso Plattner Institute

The Orphan Drug Act at 35: An Outlook for the 21st Century
11:25 am
Break
11:40 am
Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER

The Economics of Artificial Intelligence
12:20 pm
Jason Furman, Harvard University
Robert Seamans, New York University

Artificial Intelligence and the Economy
1:00 pm
Luncheon
2:30 pm
Adjourn