NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Innovation
Policy and the Economy
Adam
Jaffe, Joshua Lerner, and Scott Stern: Organizers
April
19, 2006
National
Press Club
529
14th Street
Washington,
DC
PROGRAM
8:30 am Continental
Breakfast
9:00 am IAIN COCKBURN,
Is the Pharmaceutical
Industry in a Productivity Crisis?
9:40 am SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER
When Ideas
Are Not Free: The Impact of Patents on
Scientific Research
10:20
am Break
10:35
am PAULA STEPHAN, Georgia State University
Wrapping it up in a
Person: The Mobility Patterns of New
PhDs
11:15
am Break
11:30
am ERIK BRYNJOLFFSON, MIT
Innovation Incentives for Information Goods
(Joint with XIAOQUAN
(MICHAEL) ZHANG)
12:10
pm DANIEL DIERMEIER, Northwestern
University
Innovating under
Pressure -- Towards a Science of Crisis Management
(Joint
with WALLACE HOPP and SEYED IRAVANI)
12:50 pm Adjourn and Luncheon
Speaker:
JAGDISH BHAGWATI,
4/12/06