NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005

 

Innovation Policy and the Economy

 

Adam Jaffe, Joshua Lerner and Scott Stern, Organizers

 

July 18, 2005

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 18:

 

 

 9:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:30 am

MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER

 

CHRISTOPHER SNYDER, George Washington University

 

Why is There No AIDS Vaccine?

 

 

 

Discussant: Amy Finkelstein, MIT and NBER

 

 

10:30 am

BENJAMIN JONES, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Age and Great Invention

 

 

 

Discussant: DIANA HICKS, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

 

11:30 am

Break

 

 

11:45 am

PHILIPPE AGHION, Harvard University and NBER

 

MATHIAS DEWATRIPONT, Free University

 

JEREMY STEIN, Harvard University and NBER

 

Academic Freedom, Private-Sector Focus, and the Process of Innovation

 

 

 

Discussant:  REBECCA HENDERSON, MIT and NBER

 

 

12:45 pm

Lunch

 

 

 2:00 pm

BENHAMIN CHIAO, University of Michigan

 

JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER

 

JEAN TIROLE, Institut d'Economie Industrielle

 

The Rules of Standard-Setting Organizations:  An Empirical Analysis

 

 

 

MARC RYSMAN, Boston University

 

TIMOTHY SIMCOE, University of Toronto

 

Patents and the Performance of Voluntary Standard-Setting organizations

 

 

 

Discussant for both papers:

TIMOTHY BRESNAHAN, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 4:00 pm

Break

 

 

 4:30 pm

Panel Discussion:  Globalization and R&D Offshoring

 

DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

 

DIANA HICKS, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

KAREN MILLS, Solera Capital, LLC

 

 

 5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/11/04