Advancing the Science of Science Funding Workshop

Paula Stephan and Reinhilde Veugelers, Organizers

July 19-20, 2018

Skyline Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, July 19
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Welcome & Update: Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven Adam Falk, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
9:15 am	Panel I: Methodologies for Science of Science Funding: the Role of Field Experiments
	Opening Chair: Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Closing Chair: Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Introduction by Karim Lakhani, Harvard University and NBER
	Discussants: Danny Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Adam B. Jaffe, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research and NBER
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Panel II: Understanding the Organization of Science Funding: Dynamic Panel Selection
	Chair: Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven
	Misha Teplitskiy, University of Michigan Eva C. Guinan, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Karim Lakhani, Harvard University Social Influence in Science Funding Evaluation Panels: Field Experimental Evidence from Biomedicine
	Alfredo Di Tillio, Bocconi University Marco Ottaviani, Bocconi University Peter Norman Sørensen, University of Copenhagen Strategic Sample Selection
	Discussants: Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Kei Koizumi, American Association for the Advancement of Science
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Panel III: Understanding the Impact of Science Funding
	Chair: Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
	Marc J. Lerchenmueller, University of Mannheim Does More Money Lead to More Innovation? Evidence from the Life Sciences
	Charles Ayoubi, Laboratory for Innovation Sciences at Harvard Michele Pezzoni, Université Côte d'Azur Fabiana Visentin , Maastricht University The Important Thing is Not to Win, it is to Take Part: What if Scientists Benefit From Participating in Research Grant Competitions?
	Jacques Mairesse, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics and NBER Michele Pezzoni, Université Côte d'Azur Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER Julia Lane, New York University Examining the Returns to Investment in Science: A case Study
	Discussants: Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Jon Lorsch, National Institute of General Medical Sciences Daniel Sui, National Science Foundation
3:00 pm	Panel IV: New Topics for Science of Science Funding: Crowdfunding for Science
	Chair: Iain Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
	Henry Sauermann, European School of Management and Technology Chiara Franzoni, Politecnico di Milano Kourosh Shafi, University of Florida Crowdfunding Scientific Research
	Discussants: Ágnes Horvát, Northwestern University Cindy Wu, Experiment.com Jacquelyn Gill, University of Maine
4:30 pm	Panel V: Philanthropic and Government Funders Suggestions for the Science Funding Research Agenda
	Chari: Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Views from philanthropic and federal funders on future directions (approaches and topics) Chonnettia Jones, Wellcome Trust Kei Koizumi, AAAS Bodo Stern, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Marc Malandro, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
5:30 pm	Adjourn
7:00 pm	Dinner at Bambara (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, July 20
8:15 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am	Building a Data Infrastructure for Science of Science Funding
	Chair, Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
	∙ Lisa D. Cook, Michigan State University and NBER (TBC) and Shulamit Kahn, Boston University Experiences using NSF data ∙ Elizabeth Watkins, University of California, San Francisco Coalition for Next Generation Life Sciences Data ∙ Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER Linking Inventors from U.S. Patents to Federal Censuses
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Under-researched Topics
	Chair: Kaye Husbands Fealing, Georgia Institute of Technology Marie Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology Brad Wible, Senior Editor, Science
11:45 am	Moving Forward: Discussion on how to design the future meetings and how to use the small projects fund ($70.000)
	Chairs: Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER and Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven
12:15 pm	Adjourn