NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
New Ideas about New Ideas Conference
March 10-11, 2006
Richard Freeman and Bruce Weinberg, Organizers
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM





Friday, March 10:
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
Psychology - Dean Keith Simonton, Chair
9:00 am Teresa Amabile, Harvard University
Sigal Barsade, University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Mueller, New York University
Barry Staw, UC, Berkeley
Affect and Creativity at Work
9:30 am Dean Keith Simonton, UC, Davis
Creativity as a Combinatorial Process: The Chance Baseline
10:00 am General Discussion
10:30 am Break
Scientific Labor - Michael Darby, Chair
10:45 am Richard Freeman, Harvard University and NBER
Paying for Creativity: When Do Incentives Matter
11:15 am David Kaiser, MIT
Training Quantum Mechanics: Enrollments and Epistemology in Modern Physics
11:45 am General Discussion
12:00 pm Lunch
Age and Creativity - Richard Freeman, Chair
1:30 pm David Galenson, University of Chicago and NBER
Old Masters and Young Geniuses
2:00 pm Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
Age and Great Invention
2:30 pm Bruce Weinberg, Ohio State University and NBER
Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
Knowledge Accumulation, Revolutions, and Changes in the Age of Scientific Creativity
3:00 pm General Discussion
3:30 pm Adjourn
6:30 pm Dinner - Royal Sonesta Hotel, Skyline Room
Speaker: Gerald Holton, Harvard University
Introduction by David Kaiser, MIT
Saturday, March 11:
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
Cognitive Neuro-Science of Creativity - Mark Jung-Beeman, Chair
9:00 am Mark Jung-Beeman, Northwestern University
Neural Substrates and Cognitive Mechanisms of the "Aha!" Moment
9:30 am John Kounios, Drexel University
Antecedents of the "Aha!" Moment
10:00 am Sohee Park, Vanderbilt University
Creativity and Psychosis-Proneness
10:30 am General Discussion
11:00 am Break
The Relationship between Commercial and Non-Commercial Innovation - Benjamin Jones, Chair
11:15 am Joshua Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Parag Pathak, Harvard University
Jean Tirole, Universite des Science Sociales, Toulouse
The Dynamics of Open Source Contributors
11:45 am Michael Darby and Lynne Zucker, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
TBA
12:15 pm General Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
Discussion: Where do we go from Here?
Moderated by Daniel Goroff, Harvey Mudd College
2:00 pm Adjourn
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