Innovation Policy and the Economy 2018
Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, Organizers
April 17, 2018
Supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Newseum, Knight Conference Center, 7th Floor, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
| 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 |
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| 9:10 am |
Pian Shu, Harvard University Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Innovating in a Global Economy |
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| 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” |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 12:20 pm |
Jason Furman, Harvard University Robert Seamans, New York University Artificial Intelligence and the Economy |
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| 1:00 pm | Luncheon | |
| 2:30 pm | Adjourn | |