NBER Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy Meeting
Benjamin Jones and Josh Lerner, Organizers
May 3, 2022
Supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Washington, DC and on Zoom.us
| Tuesday, May 3 | ||
| 8:15 am | Registration and Continental Breakfast | |
| New Approaches to Medical Innovation | ||
| 8:50 am |
Andrew W. Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Accelerating Vaccine Innovation for Emerging Infectious Diseases via Parallel Discovery |
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| 9:25 am |
Daniel Hemel, New York University Lisa L. Ouellette, Stanford University The Generic Drug Trilemma |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |
| Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Clean Energy | ||
| 10:15 am |
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London Silvia Dalla Fontana, USI Lugano and Swiss Finance Institute Innovating to Net Zero: Can Venture Capital and Startups Play a Meaningful Role? |
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| 10:50 am |
Jacquelyn Pless, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Divestment or Investment: A Framework for Directing Green Innovation |
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| 11:25 am | Break | |
| Geographic and Racial Inequality in Innovation and Entrepreneurship | ||
| 11:45 am |
Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER David T. Robinson, Duke University and NBER Racial Inequality in Capital Access for Innovative Firms |
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| 12:20 pm |
Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Simon Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Place-Based Productivity and Costs in Science |
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Luncheon Luncheon Speaker: Catherine Wolfram, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the Department of the Treasury |
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