NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Academic Science and Entrepreneurship: Dual Engines of Growth?

Adam Jaffe, Joshua Lerner, Scott Stern, Marie Thursby, Organizers

April 1-2, 2005

Eldorado Hotel

309 West San Francisco Street

Santa Fe, New Mexico

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MARCH 31:

6:30 PM	Reception and Dinner

FRIDAY, APRIL 1:

8:00 AM	Continental Breakfast

The Commercialization of University Inventions

8:30 AM	DANIEL ELFENBEIN, UC, Berkeley

Marketing University Inventions:

The Role of Property Rights, Publications, and Patent Quality

Discussant:	ASHISH ARORA, Carnegie Mellon University

9:45 AM	DIRK CZARNITZKI, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

ANDREW TOOLE, Rutgers University

Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship through the SBIR Program

Discussant:	WESLEY COHEN, Duke University and NBER

11:00 AM	Break

11:30 AM	RICHARD JENSEN and CELESTINE CHUKUMBA, University of Notre Dame

University Invention, Entrepreneurship, and Start-Ups

Discussant:	SUZANNE SCOTCHMER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

12:45 PM	Lunch

1:45 PM	SCOTT SHANE, Case Western Reserve University

DEEPAK SOMAYA, University of Maryland

The Effects of Litigation on University Licensing Efforts

Discussant:	STUART GRAHAM, Georgia Institute of Technology

3:00 PM	THOMAS HELLMANN, University of British Columbia

Bridging the Science to Market Gap:

Academic Entrepreneurs and the Role of Patents

Discussant:	ARVIDS ZIEDONIS, University of Michigan

4:15 PM	Panel Discussion:

JOYCE BRINTON, Harvard University

WILLIAM OBERMANN, Miox Corporation

JERRY SULLIVAN, Adams Capital Management

5:30 PM	Adjourn

6:30 PM	Reception and Dinner

SATURDAY, APRIL 2:

8:00 AM	Continental Breakfast

The Impact of Academic Science on Private Sector Innovation

8:30 AM	JEFFREY FURMAN, Boston University and NBER

MEGAN MACGARVIE, Boston University

Early Academic Science and the Birth of Industrial Research Laboratories

Discussant:	KENNETH SOKOLOFF, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

9:45 AM	JINYOUNG KIM and SANGJOON LEE, SUNY Buffalo

GERALD MARSCHKE, SUNY Albany

The Influence of University Research on Industrial Innovation

Discussant:	MANUEL TRAJTENBERG, Tel Aviv University and NBER

11:00 AM	Break

The Impact of Academic Entrepreneurship on the Academic Enterprise

11:30 AM	PIERRE AZOULAY, Columbia University and NBER

WAVERLY DING, Haas School

TOBY STUART, Columbia University

The Effect of Academic Patenting on (Public) Research Output

Discussant:	IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

12:45 PM	Lunch

1:45 PM	SWASTIKA MUKHERJEE, Georgia Institute of Technology

JERRY THURSBY, Emory University

MARIE THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER

Are There Real Effects of Licensing on Academic Research? A Life Cycle View

Discussant:	MARK SCHANKERMAN, London School of Economics

3:00 PM	Break

3:30 PM	FIONA MURRAY, MIT

SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER

Do Formal Intellectual Property Rights Hinder the Free Flow of Scientific Knowledge? Evidence from Patent-Paper Pairs

Discussant:	PAULA STEPHAN, Georgia State University

4:45 PM	Adjourn

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