NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Innovation Policy and the Economy

Adam Jaffe, Joshua Lerner, and Scott Stern: Organizers

April 15, 2008

Grand Hyatt Washington

1000 H Street

Washington, DC

PROGRAM

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

9:00 am JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics and NBER

What if Congress Doubled R&D Spending on the Physical Sciences?

(Joint with Richard Freeman)

9:40 am Break

9:55 am JOSEPH FARRELL, UC, Berkeley

Intellectual Property as a Bargaining Environment

10:35 am DOUGLAS LICHTMAN, UC, Los Angeles

Pricing Patents

11:15 am Break

11:30 am ALVIN ROTH, Harvard University and NBER

What Have We Learned from Market Design?

12:10 pm PETER CRAMTON, University of Maryland

Innovation and Market Design

12:50 pm Adjourn and Luncheon

Luncheon Speaker: DENNIS CARLTON, University of Chicago and NBER

Antitrust and Intellectual Property

4/6/08