NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

 

Innovation Policy and the Economy

 

Pai-Ling Yin and Jeff Furman, Organizers

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 21, 2008

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 21, 2008

 

 

8.30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9.00 am

AMALIA MILLER, University of Virginia

 

CATHERINE TUCKER, MIT

 

Privacy Protection and Technology Diffusion: The Case of Electronic Medical Records

 

 

 

Discussant:  Bronwyn Hall, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

 

 

10.00 am

YI DENG, University of South Florida

 

International Patent Harmonization and Trade Balance of Patent Rights

 

 

 

Discussant:  Dietmar Harhoff, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität – München

 

 

11.00 am

Break

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

BEN JONES, Northwestern University and NBER

 

The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development, Reconsidered

 

 

 

Discussant:  Sam Kortum, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

12.15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1.30 pm

MARGARET KYLE, London Business School and NBER

 

ANITA McGAHAN, University of Toronto

 

Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS

 

 

 

Discussant:  Ashish Arora, Duke University

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:45 pm

WILLIAM KERR, Harvard University

 

WILLIAM LINCOLN, University of Michigan

 

The Supply Side of Innovation:  H1-B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

 

 

 

Discussant:  Jennifer Hunt, McGill University and NBER

 

 

 

 

3.45 pm

Panel Discussion:  IMMIGRATION & INNOVATION

 

 

 

Moderator:  RICHARD FREEMAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

Panelists:    PAULA STEPHAN, Georgia State University and NBER

 

                  DANIEL GOROFF, Harvard University

 

                  BILL KAMELA, Microsoft

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn