SI 2016 Innovation

Scott Stern, Heidi L. Williams, Tetyana Pecherska, and Benjamin Jones, Organizers

July 19-20, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Summer Institute 2016 master schedule

Tuesday, July 19
9:00 am	Jiashuo Feng, Harvard University Xavier L. Jaravel, London School of Economics Who Feeds the Trolls? Patent Trolls and the Patent Examination Process
9:50 am	Gaétan de Rassenfosse, École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER Elizabeth Webster, Swinburne University of Technology Low-quality Patents in the Eye of the Beholder: Evidence from Multiple Examiners
11:00 am	Alice Kuegler, Central European University The Responsiveness of Inventing: Evidence from a Patent Fee Reform
12:50 pm	Michael Koenig, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Xiaodong Liu, University of Colorado at Boulder Yves Zenou, Monash University R&D Networks: Theory, Empirics and Policy Implications
2:00 pm	Erik Meyersson, SITE, Stockholm School of Economics Industrial Espionage and Productivity
2:50 pm	Elisabeth Ruth Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau Dense Enough To Be Brilliant: Patents, Urbanization, and Transportation in Nineteenth Century America
Wednesday, July 20
9:00 am	Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER Ari Hyytinen, Hanken School of Economics Otto Toivanen, Aalto University Living "American Dream" in Finland: The Social Mobility of Inventors
9:50 am	Xavier L. Jaravel, London School of Economics The Unequal Gains from Product Innovations
11:00 am	John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER Ralf Martin, London School of Economics Do Tax Incentives for Research Increase Firm Innovation? An RD Design for R&D
11:00 am	Antoine Dechezlepretre, OECD Elias Einio, London School of Economics Ralf Martin, London School of Economics Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Northwestern University John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER Do Tax Incentives for Research Increase Firm Innovation? An RD Design for R&D